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Environmental Impacts and Costs of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oils, Transesterified Lipids and Woody BTL—A Review
Sunde, Kathrin; Brekke, Andreas; Solberg, Birger - In: Energies 4 (2011) 6, pp. 845-877
This article reviews and compares assessments of three biodiesel fuels: (1) transesterified lipids, (2) hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), and (3) woody biomass-to-liquid (BTL) Fischer-Tropsch diesel and selected feedstock options. The article attempts to rank the environmental performance and...
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Comparative cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of wood pellet production with torrefaction
Adams, P.W.R.; Shirley, J.E.J.; McManus, M.C. - In: Applied Energy 138 (2015) C, pp. 367-380
Torrefaction is a thermal pre-treatment process for upgrading raw biomass into a more energy dense fuel. Torrefied biomass is combined with a densification process to increase its bulk density similar to conventional wood-pelleting production. This paper identifies the significant environmental...
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Sustainability solution space of the Swiss milk value added chain
Binder, C.R.; Schmid, A.; Steinberger, J.K. - In: Ecological Economics 83 (2012) C, pp. 210-220
Current indicator-based sustainability assessment approaches usually have three shortcomings: (i) ecological aspects … perspectives of stakeholders by including them in the process and designing sustainability ranges rather; and (iii) procedural … sustainability ranges were obtained through literature research and stakeholder interviews. The relationship among the indicators was …
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A systematic review of bioenergy life cycle assessments
Muench, Stefan; Guenther, Edeltraud - In: Applied Energy 112 (2013) C, pp. 257-273
missing quantitative overview in bioenergy LCA reviews constitute research gaps. The primary goal of the present review was to …
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Fresh tomato production for the Sydney market: An evaluation of options to reduce freshwater scarcity from agricultural water use
Page, Girija; Ridoutt, Brad; Bellotti, Bill - In: Agricultural Water Management 100 (2011) 1, pp. 18-24
water footprints based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) which describes the impacts in terms of contributing to freshwater … (38L for a kg of tomato as compared to 39–78L from other regions of Australia), it had the biggest LCA-based water … and regional water resources, estimated using LCA-based water footprints, provide useful dimension to assess consumptive …
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Environmental life cycle assessment of lignocellulosic conversion to ethanol: A review
Borrion, Aiduan Li; McManus, Marcelle C.; Hammond, … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 7, pp. 4638-4650
literature also suggest strong dependency of LCA results on system boundary, functional unit, data quality and allocation methods …
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Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and related improvement options of the broiler chicken meat supply chain
Katajajuuri, Juha-Matti; Grönroos, Juha; Usva, Kirsi - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 1, pp. 49-61
Energy consumption and the climate-change impact (i.e., carbon footprint) of a typical Finnish broiler chicken fillet product were studied using a supply-chain integrated life cycle assessment method. All essential production stages from parent stock and production of farming inputs to product...
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Managing Sustainability of Fennoscandian Forests and Their Use by Law and/or Agreement: For Whom and Which Purpose?
Tuomasjukka, Diana; Berg, Staffan; Lindner, Marcus - In: Sustainability 6 (2013) 1, pp. 18-49
Sustainability and sustainable behaviour is of crucial importance in the management of Fennoscandian forests and forest …-related industries. This paper reviews a number of voluntary instruments, which aim at promoting or assessing sustainability impacts at … sustainability dimension for each instrument is reviewed with an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, actors and purposes for assessing …
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Glass <i>vs.</i> Plastic: Life Cycle Assessment of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Bottles across Global Supply Chains
Accorsi, Riccardo; Versari, Lorenzo; Manzini, Riccardo - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 3, pp. 2818-2840
assessment (LCA) methodology. The LCA assessment methodology is applied to determine the environmental impact categories … and the disposal of waste across a global supply chain. The findings from the LCA highlight the potential of PET bottles …
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How to measure social impacts? A socio-eco-efficiency analysis by the SEEBALANCE® method
Kolsch, Daniela; Saling, Peter; Kicherer, Andreas; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 11 (2008) 1, pp. 1-23
dimensions of sustainability. The objective was to develop a tool, comparable to the BASF eco-efficiency analysis, which is … simple to use by LCA-experts and easy-to-understand for people without any prior experience in the field. …
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