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Resources, Volume 10, Issue 9

2021 September - 7 articles

Cover Story: Water-reuse projects create environmental pollution, the costs of which are often not included in economic assessment studies, leaving the trade-offs between economic and environmental performance uncharacterized. This study goes one step ahead and combines monetized Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) to deliver a harmonized valuation of the external and internal environmental costs of crop cultivation irrigated with reclaimed water. A key conclusion is that the economic feasibility assessments of water-reuse projects should quantitatively include external costs to enhance future decision making and generate insights into economic–environmental sustainability using a “global” performance indicator. View this paper
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Articles (7)

  • Review
  • Open Access
209 Citations
28,757 Views
40 Pages

Platinum Group Metals: A Review of Resources, Production and Usage with a Focus on Catalysts

  • Anthony E. Hughes,
  • Nawshad Haque,
  • Stephen A. Northey and
  • Sarbjit Giddey

20 September 2021

The major applications of PGMs are as catalysts in automotive industry, petroleum refining, environmental (gas remediation), industrial chemical production (e.g., ammonia production, fine chemicals), electronics, and medical fields. As the next gener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,506 Views
31 Pages

8 September 2021

The Circular Economy Action Plan, as part of the European Green Deal announced by the European Commission, is highly relevant to the chemical industry in relation to the production of sustainable products. Accordingly, the chemical industry faces the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,480 Views
13 Pages

3 September 2021

The estimation and quantification of external environmental costs (hidden costs) are crucial to sustainability assessments of treated wastewater reuse projects. These costs, however, are rarely considered in economic analysis studies. In this work, m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,294 Views
17 Pages

As a part of the critical infrastructure, water supply systems must be characterized by an appropriate level of operational reliability and safety. One of the threats to this is the failure of the water supply network, influenced by many factors, amo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,234 Views
27 Pages

Assessing the Application-Specific Substitutability of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Chemistries Based on Material Criticality, Performance, and Price

  • Steffen Kiemel,
  • Simon Glöser-Chahoud,
  • Lara Waltersmann,
  • Maximilian Schutzbach,
  • Alexander Sauer and
  • Robert Miehe

The material use of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is widely discussed in public and scientific discourse. Cathodes of state-of-the-art LIBs are partially comprised of high-priced raw materials mined under alarming ecological and social circumstances....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,841 Views
26 Pages

Forecasting energy demand and supply is the most crucial concern for energy policymakers. However, forecasting may introduce uncertainty in the energy model, and an energy policy based on an uncertain model could be misleading. Without certainty in e...

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Resources - ISSN 2079-9276