Life Cycle Assessment of Cow Tanned Leather Products

Double Pyrolysis of Chrome Tanned Leather Solid Waste for Safe Disposal and Products Recovery

Disposal of chrome tanned leather waste (CTLW) generated in leather processing industries has many environmental implications. This paper presents a double pyrolysis (PI & PII) method to dispose hazardous chrome tanned leather solid waste by converting it into useful products. When CTLW was subjected to double pyrolysis, three major products obtained were; (i) an energy enriched combustible gas...

Ecological footprint accounting in the life cycle assessment of products

Mark A.J. Huijbregts⁎, Stefanie Hellweg, Rolf Frischknecht, Konrad Hungerbühler, A. Jan Hendriks Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland ecoinvent Centre, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland Institute for Chemicaland Bioengineering, ETH Zuri...

Life Cycle Assessment and Forest Products: A White Paper

Life Cycle Assessment and Forest Products: A White Paper

Tannin fingerprinting in vegetable tanned leather by solid state NMR spectroscopy and comparison with leathers tanned by other processes.

Solid state ¹³C-NMR spectra of pure tannin powders from four different sources--mimosa, quebracho, chestnut and tara--are readily distinguishable from each other, both in pure commercial powder form, and in leather which they have been used to tan. Groups of signals indicative of the source, and type (condensed vs. hydrolyzable) of tannin used in the manufacture are well resolved in the spectra...