The key objective of this study was to evaluate and compare, within the concept integrated biorefining, potential environmental gains life cycle, economic feasibility energy balance production bioenergetics from palm sugarcane. In context, research model developed in work involved several assessment techniques; terms assessment, tool used Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Well-To-Tank perspective, wh...

The marble industry is growing in Pakistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province the largest producer of tiles Pakistan. Marble production consumes a considerable amount water during its life cycle stages impacts various environmental compartments, such as air, water, soil; therefore, this study aimed to quantify impacts, footprint, cumulative energy demand one-tonne tile manufactured small industri...

Background, Aims and Scope. The interest in recycling materials at the end of their life is growing in the industry in general. As regards the Wastes of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), an appreciable increase of these materials has been noticed in the last decades, 117 . 103 tons of WEEE have been produced in Italy in 2002 according to Ecohitech [1] and the increase in this kind of ...

A deterministic spreadsheet model developed in an earlier Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM) project that calculates cost, fuel, and chemical outputs of forest management and harvesting activities was modified to include logic for systems used to recover forest residue. Two illustrative biomass recovery systems with variations were modeled. A system to recover re...

 Sustainable IT Ecosystems: Enabling Next-Generation Cities Christopher E. Hoover, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Brian J. Watson, Susan K. Charles, Amip J. Shah, Chandrakant D. Patel, Manish Marwah, Thomas W. Christian, Cullen E. Bash HP Laboratories HPL-2010-73 sustainability, cities, sustainable it ecosystems, ecosystems, life cycle, microgrid, water, power, analytics, control theory, autonomous contro...

The integration of emergy analysis with Life Cycle Assessment is not only useful, but, in the opinion of the authors, often essential and overdue. In particular, implementing emergy within one of the commercially-available LCA software packages allows the analyst to make use of the internationally-recognized databases and to produce results in a quicker, more consistent, and more reliable way i...

Significant progress has been made in research on environmental life-cycle assessment (LCA) of pavements. Use of this new knowledge has been slowed by a lack of standardized datasets and analysis protocols. Several software packages have been developed to address this by providing datasets with broader coverage and better quality, but practitioners need applicationspecific data input interfaces...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is usually carried out using fixed coefficients for resource use and emissions as the basis for the calculation of the environmental impact of a product or a service. However, in agriculture, where the systems’ functioning largely depends on the dynamic organisation of agricultural practices and on variable climatic conditions, coupling dynamic simulation models with...

Multilayer films exhibit excellent properties for food packaging. However, existing products are not biodegradable. Conventional plastics, manufactured from fossil fuels, not only consume non-renewable and finite resources, but also impact heavily on waste disposal. A new multilayer film has been developed in the Multibio Project for the production of food packaging. In this paper, the environm...