scholarly journals Energy-Environmental Impact Assessment of Greenhouse Grown Tomato: A Case Study in Almeria (Spain)

World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-441
Author(s):  
Katia Hueso-Kortekaas ◽  
José C. Romero ◽  
Raquel González-Felipe
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Water Recovery ◽  
Recovery Stage ◽  
Energy Demands ◽  
Food Losses

Tomato is one of the most common crops across the world, but it is also one of the types of food that generates the most losses across its life cycle. This paper addresses this issue by providing a Life Cycle Analysis of greenhouse grown tomato in southern Spain. The results confirm that tomatoes are a thirsty and frail crop. Most of its energy demands and carbon emissions go to packaging (35%) and transportation (42%) as well as supplying water for their growth. There seems to be room for improvement in the recovery of energy (54.6%) and CO2 emissions, mainly addressing the waste treatment of packaging and plastic as well as improving transportation. Despite being highly water demanding, irrigation processes are already efficient in industrial greenhouses, and most of the water recovery will need to take place in the waste recovery stage. Food losses at the consumption phases do not constitute a significant loss in energy or a significant amount of carbon emissions saved.

Utilization of CO2 in renewable DME fuel production: A life cycle analysis (LCA)-based case study in China

Fuel ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 254 ◽  
pp. 115627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Tomatis ◽  
Ashak Mahmud Parvez ◽  
Muhammad T. Afzal ◽  
Sannia Mareta ◽  
Tao Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis ◽  
Fuel Production

scholarly journals Life Cycle Analysis: Assessment of Technologies for Droplet Separation – A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandy Paschetag ◽  
André Paschetag ◽  
Florian Merkel ◽  
Christian Mehringer ◽  
Stephan Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis

scholarly journals New Technology Tools and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) Applied to a Sustainable Livestock Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Edo D’Agaro ◽  
Franco Rosa ◽  
Natalia P. Akentieva
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Gaseous Emissions ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
Industrial Processing ◽  
Biological Potential

Abstract Agriculture 4.0, a combination of mechanical innovation and information and communication technologies (ICT) using precision farming, omics technologies and advanced waste treatment techniques, can be used to enhance the biological potential of animal and crop productions and reduce livestock gaseous emissions. In addition to animal proteins being excellent nutritional ingredients for the human diet, there is a growing concern regarding the amount of energy spent converting vegetable crops into animal protein and the relevant environmental impacts. Using the value chain analysis derived from the neoclassic production theory extended to industrial processing and the market, the hypothesis to be tested concerns the sustainability and convenience of different protein sources. The methodology implies the use of life cycle analysis (LCA) to evaluate the efficiency of different livestock diet ingredients. The use of feeding products depend upon various factors, including cost reduction, consumer acceptance, incumbent industry response, civil society support, policy consensus, lower depletion of natural resources, improved sustainable agri-food supply chain and LCA. EU policy makers should be aware of these changes in livestock and market chains and act proactively to encourage the use of alternative animal proteins.

scholarly journals Environmental impacts of a hydrometallurgical process for electronic waste treatment: A life cycle assessment case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 1204-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Maria Iannicelli-Zubiani ◽  
Martina Irene Giani ◽  
Francesca Recanati ◽  
Giovanni Dotelli ◽  
Stefano Puricelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Hydrometallurgical Process

Life Cycle Analysis within Pharmaceutical Process Optimization and Intensification: Case Study of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Production

ChemSusChem ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 3521-3533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Ott ◽  
Dana Kralisch ◽  
Ivana Denčić ◽  
Volker Hessel ◽  
Yosra Laribi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Process Optimization ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis ◽  
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
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