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Willow short rotation coppice. Energy and environmental assessment

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100249

Stelian Alexandru Borz , Salvatore Papandrea , Michele Zoli , Jacopo Bacenetti , Andrea Rosario Proto

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Life Cycle Assessment of an industrial laundry: A case study in the Italian context

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100246

Valeria Mezzanotte , Sara Venturelli , Riccardo Paoli , Elena Collina , Francesco Romagnoli

{"title":"Life Cycle Assessment of an industrial laundry: A case study in the Italian context","authors":"Valeria Mezzanotte , Sara Venturelli , Riccardo Paoli , Elena Collina , Francesco Romagnoli","doi":"10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100246","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100246","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Industrial laundries need large amounts of energy and water and, thus, generate large amounts of wastewater, due to the core washing, drying and ironing processes and to the transport of linen and chemicals. The presented Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) concerns an Italian industrial laundry, and is based on primary data collected from the facility, complemented by information from literature, supporting databases (Ecoinvent 3.8), and technical datasheets. The analysis covers the entire cycle of linen processing (material extraction and manufacturing, transport, logistics, laundry processes, wastewater treatment and reuse, packaging, and solid waste management). The defined Functional Unit (FU) is 1 kg of linen. The LCA, carried out by SimaPro 9.2 and ReCiPe 2016 H, indicates a total impact of 12.77 mPt/FU, chiefly deriving from washing (4.62 mPt), ironing (4.29 mPt), and drying (1.56 mPt). Detergents and washing agents contribute significantly to the impact of the washing phase. 'Fine particulate formation' is the most affected impact category (5.18 mPt). The initial results suggested that generating renewable energy on-site could reduce the environmental impact by 19.7%. Solar photovoltaic panels were installed in 2023, and the actual energy production exceeded expectations, indicating an even greater reduction in the laundry environmental footprint.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34616,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Environmental Systems","volume":"16 ","pages":"Article 100246"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the connection between COVID19, the energy crisis and PM2.5 emissions from residential heating

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100244

Susana Lopez-Aparicio, Henrik Grythe, Miha Markelj, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Sam-Erik Walker

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Corrigendum to “Dual inhibitors for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and ammonia volatilization in rice for enhancing environmental sustainability” [Clean. Environ. Syst. 13 (2024) 100199]

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100242

Ankita Paul , Arti Bhatia , Ritu Tomer , Vinod Kumar , Shikha Sharma , Ruchita Pal , Usha Mina , Rajesh Kumar , K.M. Manjaiah , Bidisha Chakrabarti , Niveta Jain , Y.S. Shivay

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Life cycle assessment of emerging mass timber product: Cross-laminated bamboo

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100243

Yinqiao Wang, Kai Lan

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Life cycle assessment to support public procurement of food: A review

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100239

Cecilia Casonato , Esther Sanyé-Mengual , Matteo Vittuari , Serenella Sala

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Joining environmental impacts and product quality in Life Cycle Assessment: The case of the production and storage of lactic acid bacteria concentrates

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100245

Maite Gagneten , Camille Quentier , Stéphanie Passot , Stéphanie Cenard , Fernanda Fonseca , Caroline Pénicaud

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Cost benefit analysis and carbon footprint of biogas energy through life cycle assessment

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100240

Tsai-Chi Kuo , Hsiang-Yue Chen , Billy Chong , Meichun Lin

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Environmental assessment of organic dairy farms in the US: Mideast, northeast, southeast, and mountain regions

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100233

Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas , Nicole Rakobitsch , Michel A. Wattiaux , Erin Silva , Rebecca A. Larson

{"title":"Environmental assessment of organic dairy farms in the US: Mideast, northeast, southeast, and mountain regions","authors":"Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas , Nicole Rakobitsch , Michel A. Wattiaux , Erin Silva , Rebecca A. Larson","doi":"10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, ammonia (NH<sub>3</sub>) emissions, eutrophication potential (EP), use of fossil energy, direct land, and blue water of organic dairy farms are evaluated in the Mideast, Northeast, Southeast, and Mountain regions of the US. Eighteen archetypical organic dairy farms are modeled with GHGs per kg fat and protein corrected milk (FPCM) ranging between 0.83 and 1.45 kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq with and 0.93 to 1.59 kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq without carbon sequestration. Enteric methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) is the major contributor (42–58%) of farm GHGs, followed by CH<sub>4</sub> from manure (15–27%), energy use (8–18%), and material inputs (3–24%). Enteric CH<sub>4</sub> is affected by feed efficiency and milk production, manure CH<sub>4</sub> by the type of manure handled and stored, and GHGs from energy by the content of fossil-fuel sources in the electricity grid mix. Manure is the major source of NH<sub>3</sub> emissions ranging from 8.2 to 24.3 g/kg FPCM. Alternative GHG mitigation strategies show potential reductions of up to 23 and 51% for individual and combined strategies, respectively. While enteric CH<sub>4</sub> is the greatest GHG contributor, manure management has greater GHG mitigation potential. The choice of CH<sub>4</sub> predictive equations, N<sub>2</sub>O emission factors, allocation, and functional units could increase GHGs up to 43% in the evaluated organic dairy farms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34616,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Environmental Systems","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100233"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lowering the carbon footprint of beer through waste breadcrumb substitution for malted barley: Life cycle assessment and experimental study 用废弃面包屑替代麦芽降低啤酒的碳足迹：生命周期评估与实验研究

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Cleaner Environmental Systems Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100241

Kieran McDonagh , Ruosi Zhang , Loukia-Pantzechroula Merkouri , Morgan Arnell , Andy Hepworth , Melis Duyar , Michael Short

{"title":"Lowering the carbon footprint of beer through waste breadcrumb substitution for malted barley: Life cycle assessment and experimental study","authors":"Kieran McDonagh , Ruosi Zhang , Loukia-Pantzechroula Merkouri , Morgan Arnell , Andy Hepworth , Melis Duyar , Michael Short","doi":"10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Beer is the most produced and consumed alcoholic beverage in the world, but the agricultural production of its most common ingredient, i.e. malted barley, is a significant contributor to the overall environmental footprint of beer. In addition, food wastage, particularly bread with millions of slices wasted daily, poses a waste management challenge across the globe. This study aims to address both issues through brewing beer with waste bread that would have otherwise ended up in landfill by replacing a portion of malted barley with waste bread. A sourdough pale ale was brewed at various bread percentages to understand how the inclusion of bread changed the sugar profile and fermentability of the beer. The samples were mashed at two different temperatures, 65 °C and 70 °C, to assess the impacts of mashing. It was found that the volume of alcohol produced declined with increasing bread amounts, but brewing with up to 60 wt% bread produced the same volume of alcohol as a standard beer. A life cycle assessment was performed to quantify the change in cradle to grave environmental impact for brewing beers with varying bread percentages with the view to conduct more targeted feasibility studies in the future with waste bread substitution. Significant reductions in emissions were observed as regards global warming potential, terrestrial ecotoxicity, acidification, eutrophication, ozone depletion, and abiotic depletion of fossil fuels. In particular, the global warming potential for the real-life example microbrewery studied in this work was decreased by 7.13% of the total carbon dioxide equivalent annually, demonstrating the environmental advantages of brewing beer with waste bread.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34616,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Environmental Systems","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100241"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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