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Digitalization potentials in supporting offshore wind logistics

Chartron, Sylvain; Stein, Michael; Gaysse, Jérôme; … - 2018

Digitalization complementing offshore wind energy is a topic of interest for both researchers and practitioners. As part of a broader research on offshore wind logistics optimization, this paper focuses on how digitalization can be further developed to support logistics in the particular domain...

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Reverse logistics network design: A holistic life cycle approach

Daaboul, Joanna; Le Duigou, Julien; Penciuc, Diana; … - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 4 (2014) 7, pp. 1-15

When aiming for a more sustainable world, enterprises such as aircraft and automobile industries are highly interested in lightweight components and solutions. Among these solutions are aluminum wrought alloys that offer high potentials for dramatic weight reduction of structural parts....

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The environmental impact of a Sardinian wine by partial Life Cycle Assessment

Benedetto, Graziella - In: Wine Economics and Policy 2 (2013) 1, pp. 33-41

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the environmental emissions associated with the production of a typical white wine produced in Sardinia, with particular reference to CO2 emissions. The main objective is to determine the main environmental impacts of the overall production process...

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Modellregionen Elektromobilität: Umweltbegleitforschung Elektromobilität

Schallaböck, Karl Otto; Carpantier, Rike; Fischedick, … - 2012

Im Zentrum dieser Untersuchung steht die Aufbereitung der Erfahrungen mit den Elektrofahrzeugen in Einzelprojekten der Modellregionen Phase I hinsichtlich der energiebezogenen Parameter und der nach Fahrzeugsegmenten differenzierte Vergleich mit herkömmlichen Fahrzeugen. In der Literatur finden...

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Towards a holistic and integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of the bioeconomy: Background on concepts, visions and measurements

Zeug, Walther; Bezama, Alberto; Thrän, Daniela - 2020

Current economic and social systems transgress several ecological planetary boundaries by far but without sufficiently fulfilling human needs and this in a globally unequal way, posing enormous challenges to political strategies and economic structures. To tackle these challenges, under a...

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Life Cycle Assessment of honey: Considering the pollination service

Arzoumanidis, Ioannis; Raggi, Andrea; Petti, Luigia - In: Administrative Sciences 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used for the improvement of the environmental performance of products … natural ecosystems and agriculture. When implementing an LCA of an apiculture system, the pollination service can and should … of pollination as a potential basis for managing multifunctionality in LCA modelling as well as its implementation in a …

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A combined framework for the life cycle assessment and costing of food waste prevention and valorization: An application to school canteens

De Menna, Fabio; Davis, Jennifer; Östergren, Karin; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11

About one third of global edible food is lost or wasted along the supply chain, causing the wastage of embedded natural and economic resources. Life cycle methodologies can be applied to identify sustainable and viable prevention and valorization routes needed to prevent such inefficiencies....

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Techno-economic assessment of a Synechocystis based biorefinery through process optimization

da Silva, A. Ferreira; Brazinha, C.; Costa, L.; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 509-514

Similar to oil, biological origin feedstock can be converted into a number of products allowing to recover the maximum value from the raw biological material, within what is nowadays called a biorefinery. Among other biological materials, microalgae are a very interesting biomass due to the high...

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Integrating site-specific environmental impact assessment in supplier selection: exemplary application to steel procurement

Schiessl, Andreas; Müller, Richard; Volk, Rebekka; … - In: Journal of Business Economics 90 (2020) 9, pp. 1409-1457

In times of fast-growing stakeholder interest in sustainability, the ecological and social perspective of industrial companies and its products is gaining increasing importance. In particular, the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the automotive industry has come to the forefront of public...

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Limestone calcined clay cement as a low-carbon solution to meet expanding cement demand in emerging economies

Cancio Díaz, Yudiesky; Sánchez Berriel, Sofia; … - In: Development Engineering 2 (2017), pp. 82-91

This paper aims at assessing the return on investment and carbon mitigation potentials of five investment alternatives for the Cuban cement industry in a long-term horizon appraisal (15 years). Anticipated growing demand for cement, constrained supply and an urgent need for optimisation of...

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