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Material flow analysis

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Funamentals of Life Cycle Assessment and Specificity of Biorefineries

The use of methods to assess environmental performances of industrial products became popular in the sixties with the growing environment concerns. The life cycle assessment (LCA) emerged in the 1990s as a response to the need of a more structured methodol ...

Elsevier2017

Integrating anthropogenic material stocks and flows into modern resource classification frameworks

This study investigates how anthropogenic resources could fit into the United Nations Framework Classification for Fossil Energy and Mineral Reserves and Resources 2009 (UNFC-2009). Compared to geogenic resources, anthropogenic deposits are more heterogene ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS AND LIFESTYLE ARCHETYPES: EXPLORING DIMENSIONS OF CONSUMPTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION NEEDED TO ACHIEVE URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

To achieve ecological sustainability, significant and absolute reductions are needed in demand on nature’s services to yield resources and assimilate wastes. Estimates range from a factor of five to ten. This translates to an 80% to 90% reduction in energy ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Modelling the future secondary resource availability and recycling potential of aluminium in austria

Production of secondary aluminium (Al) currently represents about 70% of total European Al production with a still rising trend and about 50% European final Al demand. The utilization of anthropogenic Al resources as secondary raw materials is therefore a ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Exploring the potential of e-mobility to improve resource efficiency through scenario-based life cycle analysis

The transport sector is the second largest emitter of GHG emissions in the EU and about two thirds of the emissions are generated from road transport. More importantly, while emissions from other sectors have shown a consistent decreasing trend, GHG emissi ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Journée ENAC

Alexander Kvasov

Préparation pour la journée ENAC avril-mai 2016 2. Présentation des neurons à la journée enac en collaboration avec Elab et ActLight 3. Design et fabrication de pièces imprimante 3D pour nos prototypes 4. développement de software visualisation et trait ...

2016

A holistic production planning approach in a reconfigurable manufacturing system with energy consumption and environmental effects

Paul Xirouchakis, Yong Chan Choi

Consideration for the energy consumption and environmental impacts is required depending on the changed capacity under a flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing environment. This article focuses on a holistic production planning approach in a reconfigura ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

A global collaborative accounting network to calculate the resource use of products and services

To promote sustainable buying decisions there is the need to better inform consumers about the environmental burden of products. Today, environmental product assessment is mostly conducted by the producer itself or external consultants using life-cycle inv ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

Environomic multi-objective optimization of an eco-industrial park

François Maréchal, Lindsay Dianne Lessard, Maziar Kermani

A circular economy refers to an industrial economy with a cradle to cradle vision, shifting from the use of fossil fuels towards renewable energy, minimizing the use of toxic chemicals and reducing waste by recycling through careful system design. The conc ...

2015

Holistic life cycle approach for lightweight automotive components

Fatih Karakoyun

Since sustainability and environmental issues rose lately, lightweighting has been the point of interest for automotive and aerospace sectors. Lightweighting reduces the fuel consumption of the vehicles and as a result of this reduces emissions. Aluminum, ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

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