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This paper presents optimization methods to design frame structures from a stock of existing elements. These methods are relevant when reusing structural elements over multiple service lives. Reuse has the potential to reduce the environmental impact of bu ...

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Siloxane compounds in biogas from manure and mixed organic waste: Method development and speciation analysis with GC-ICP-MS

Christian Ludwig, Debora Foppiano, Mohamed Tarik

A novel method for the determination of linear and cyclic siloxane compounds (L2, L3, D3, D4, D5, and D6) in biogas was developed by combining gas chromatography (GC) with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Using a continuous liquid que ...

2020

Assessment of lifestyle changes for greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Switzerland

In light of the climate change crisis, this study looks at what actions can be done by individuals in Switzerland to reduce their carbon footprint. A total of 40 actions spanned over 6 areas of consumption (food, housing, mobility, at home leisure activiti ...

2020

Comparison of environmental assessment methods when reusing building components: a case study

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Endrit Hoxha, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

The building industry is responsible for 35% of all solid waste in Europe and more than a third of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To address this, applying circular economy principles to the building sector is crucial, for example by reusing building elem ...

2020

Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C(3)N(4)nanopores, a simulation study

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Davide Campi, Nicola Colonna, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is a promising material for molecular sieving membranes, thanks to its atom-thick ordered lattice with an extremely high density (1.6 x 10(14)pores per cm(2)) of triangular-shaped nanopores of similar to 0.34 nm diameter. Here, ...

2020

TERRE project: interplay between unsaturated soil mechanics and low-carbon geotechnical engineering

Alessio Ferrari, Jacopo Zannin, Gianluca Speranza

The geotechnical construction industry is a major component of the overall construction sector and is strategically important in infrastructure development (transportation, flood and landslide protection, building foundations, waste disposal). Although ind ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Rare Earth Metals Recycling from E-Wastes: Strategy and Perspective

Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Ajay Bhagwan Patil, Mohamed Tarik

A robust and economically viable technology is under development for the recycling of technologically important rare earth (RE) metals from end-of-life lamp fluorescent powder (FP) e-waste. This is one of the first efforts to recycle RE from municipal e-wa ...

World Resources Forum2019

Enlightening advances in critical raw material recovery from industrial wastes using high voltage electric pulse crushers

Pierre Rossi

Electric pulse fragmentation (EPF) is a novel comminution process where ‘lightning bolts’, or highly energetic electrical discharges, are applied to materials immersed in water. These discharges exploit the variability in electrical and acoustic properties ...

2019

Etude de faisabilité d’un processus de biolixiviation pour le recyclage des métaux et terres rares contenus dans les téléphones portables.

The electronics industry is one of the most successful in the world (Veit & Bernardes, 2015). Computers, mobile phones, television screens, touch pads are now part of the daily lives of many people of this planet. The advent of more and more sophisticated ...

2019

Rejuvenation of Lakes in Indian Cities: A Case Study for the Betterment of Wetlands in Bangalore

Pollution is defined as “to make something impure”. Water bodies, natural or man-made, are susceptible to pollution ranging from plastic waste disposals to urban and industrial sewage discharge. Until 1960, records show that there were 262 water bodies in ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

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