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The energy balance in the Palm Oil-Derived Methyl Ester (PME) life cycle for the cases in Brazil and Colombia

Angarita, Yáñez; Eduardo, Edgar; Lora, Silva; … - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 12, pp. 2905-2913

a complete life cycle assessment (LCA) but rather just to focus on the energy balance in the Palm Oil-Derived Methyl …

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Assessment of selected CCS technologies in electricity and synthetic fuel production for CO2 mitigation in South Africa

Telsnig, Thomas; Tomaschek, Jan; Özdemir, Enver Doruk; … - In: Energy Policy 63 (2013) C, pp. 168-180

One of the actions proposed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in South Africa (SA) is to install carbon capture and storage (CCS) at new energy-producing plants. This paper aims to evaluate the costs and GHG emissions of implementing CCS at a coal-fired integrated gasification combined...

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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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Assessing the life cycle environmental impacts of wind power: A review of present knowledge and research needs

Arvesen, Anders; Hertwich, Edgar G. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 8, pp. 5994-6006

body of life cycle assessments (LCA) of wind power provides a fairly good overall understanding of fossil energy use and … realized values. Finally, we discuss the need for LCA research to move beyond unit-based assessments in order to address …

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Energy efficiency measurement in industrial processes

Giacone, E.; Mancò, S. - In: Energy 38 (2012) 1, pp. 331-345

in an energy management system standard (e.g. EN 16001, ISO 50001) or LCA standard (e.g. ISO 14044). Glass and cast iron …

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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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More caution is needed when using life cycle assessment to determine energy return on investment (EROI)

Arvesen, Anders; Hertwich, Edgar G. - In: Energy Policy 76 (2015) C, pp. 1-6

Cumulative energy demand (CED) estimates from life cycle assessments (LCAs) are increasingly used to determine energy return on investment (EROI), but the difference in indicators can lead to a misclassification of energy flows in the assessment. The core idea of EROI is to measure the relation...

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Life cycle assessment of electricity production from renewable energies: Review and results harmonization

Asdrubali, Francesco; Baldinelli, Giorgio; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 42 (2015) C, pp. 1113-1122

A significant number of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analyses of renewable energy technologies is available in the … of LCA to inform policy makers and constituting a barrier to the deployment of a full awareness on sustainable energies …. This variability in LCA results, in fact, can generate confusion regarding the actual environmental consequences of …

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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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