Life Cycle Assessment in Waste Management
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 April 2023) | Viewed by 31296
Special Issue Editors
Interests: life cycle assessment; waste management; energy efficiency; environmental management; thermic waste treatment technologies; renewable energy; process engineering; grinding; sustainable development; climate change
Interests: addressing and solving problems at the interface of climate change and sustainability that arise in many different fields, such as supply chain, energy efficiency, low-carbon economy, carbon capture and storage, smart city, smart manufacturing, sustainable sourcing, sustainable and resilience supply chain, and sustainable operations management; the integration of disruptive technology, business processes, and operations research methods, which plays a key role in understanding and solving complex problems; integrating mathematical models, big data, blockchain, and internet technology to understand, model, and provide practical solutions to companies and organizations that need to address climate change and sustainability problems; sustainable development goals
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Interests: materials grindability; comminution; processing machines; sustainable development; eco-design; energy efficiency; environmental impact
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Technological processes can be considered on the basis of three viewpoints: environmental burden, energy efficiency, and economic viewpoints. Environmental loads and their derived dire consequences are significant for different manufacturing technologies. With the increasing pressure on companies/organizations to adopt environmentally friendly practices that allow moving toward a low carbon economy that mitigates the harmful effects of climate change, the use of techniques based on life cycle assessment can facilitate analysis and the comparison of technological alternatives with the ecological requirements that they must meet. The different technological alternatives that need to be implemented in companies/organizations can be analyzed by applying life cycle assessment that considers, among other aspects, the environmental load, energy efficiency, and profitability aspects involved. The goal of this Special Issue is to compare the different waste management technologies (including recycling, wastewater treatment, landfilling) with the help of life cycle assessment.
In the last few years, several waste energetic utilization/thermic treatment technologies have come to the front. This Special Issue also summarizes thermic and energetic utilization processes of wastes with a comparison between different technologies, stressing factors affecting their applicability and operational suitability.
The research results of the articles in this Special Issue show the values of the environmental impacts and energy efficiencies for manufacturing processes and waste management technologies in different lifecycle stages. This Special Issue can set up prognoses and models with LCA analyses and the conscious application of scientific methods, which can offer a prognosis for untested situations.
Dr. Viktoria Mannheim
Prof. Dr. Ernesto D.R. Santibanez-Gonzalez
Dr. Weronika Kruszelnicka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- life cycle assessment
- waste management
- waste treatment technology
- energy efficiency
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