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Life Cycle Assessment in Sustainable Products Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 4325

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ashkan Nabavi-Pelesaraei

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Department of Mechanical Engineering of Biosystems, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
Interests: life cycle assessment; energy; biofuel; waste management; sustainability
Dr. Farshad Soheilifard

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Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Interests: life cycle assessment; environmental impact assessment; quantitative sustainability assessment; energy; multi-objective optimization

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Public awareness of the environmental problems caused by the trade-off between economic development and environmental protection has increased in recent years. Therefore, sustainable development has a significant role in balancing social productivity demands and natural resources. In sustainable development studies, life cycle assessment (LCA) is known as one significant tool for the verification of appropriate sustainability along the evaluation of the environmental impacts of the design of a certain product.

While most studies concentrate on the methodology of LCA, this Special Issue aims to present LCA-associated studies from a specific viewpoint of product development applications. Approach to the application of LCA in product development are presented with step-by-step instructions, starting from concept, part, and process design all the way to decision making. LCA is applicable in several forms, including impact assessment, selection, classification, and decision support. The challenges with regard to the four main steps of LCA (namely, goal and scope definition, life cycle inventory, life cycle impact analysis, and interpretation) are within the scope of this issue.

In particular, the main topics that this Special Issue shall cover are:

  • Environmental assessment of agri-industrial products, biofuels, and energy systems;
  • Life cycle cost analysis of agri-industrial products, biofuels, and energy systems;
  • Greenhous gas emissions, water and ecological footprint of agri-industrial products, biofuels, and energy systems;
  • Integrating exergy and economic and environmental parameters to offer a novel sustainability index;
  • New approaches in LCA of sustainable products.

Research and reviews articles are therefore invited to be submitted to this Special Issue to contribute to and highlight the life cycle aspect of sustainable products.

Dr. Ashkan Nabavi-Pelesaraei
Dr. Farshad Soheilifard
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • life cycle assessment
  • sustainability
  • environmental challenges
  • environmental analysis tools
  • greenhouse gas emissions

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Analysis of Civil Environments Cleaning Services—Microbiological and LCA Analysis after Traditional and Sustainable Procedures
by Riccardo Fontana, Marco Marzola, Mattia Buratto, Giulia Trioschi, Anna Caproni, Chiara Nordi, Cesare Buffone, Beatrice Bandera, Luciano Vogli and Peggy Marconi
Sustainability 2023, 15(1), 696; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010696 - 30 Dec 2022
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The development of sustainable processes has an important role to play in balancing social productivity requirements, protecting the environment and natural resources. Up to date, efforts to combat microbial contamination have focused on the use of chemical-based sanitation procedures, which may have various [...] Read more.
The development of sustainable processes has an important role to play in balancing social productivity requirements, protecting the environment and natural resources. Up to date, efforts to combat microbial contamination have focused on the use of chemical-based sanitation procedures, which may have various limitations, as testified by the persistence of contamination itself, by the growing antimicrobial resistance of microbes and by the chemical related pollution. The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the use of conventional and sustainable cleaning products and processes in civilian environments. The sampling campaign is conducted in a sports hall in Turin, Italy. Each sample comes from a specific environment, surface, furniture and sanitary and is taken using RODAC contact plates and swabs with a neutralizing agent in order to standardize the result of the microbiological evaluation. Sampling occurred before and after traditional and sustainable cleaning procedures. The sustainable experimental design using ecological products in the cleaning procedures of the analyzed areas proved to be a relevant technique. From CAM (minimal environmental criteria) requirements, the sustainable protocol must give equal or better results than the traditional protocol from both microbiological and environmental (LCA) point of view. It can be concluded that the ecological experimental system meets this criterion and has demonstrated better performance both in antimicrobial activity and in environmental impact than the conventional system: all findings are in an acceptable state of sanitation, with no evidence of pathogenic micro-organisms specified in the guideline. Full article
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Sustainability Investigation in the Building Cement Production System Based on the LCA-Emergy Method
by Hairuo Wang, Yexin Liu, Junxue Zhang, He Zhang, Li Huang, Dan Xu and Chunxia Zhang
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16380; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416380 - 7 Dec 2022
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As one of the highest energy and resource consumption industries in China, discussion on the sustainability of the cement production system has great significance. This study conducted sustainable calculations and analyses for cement production systems based on the emergy method. This study also [...] Read more.
As one of the highest energy and resource consumption industries in China, discussion on the sustainability of the cement production system has great significance. This study conducted sustainable calculations and analyses for cement production systems based on the emergy method. This study also considers the sustainability impact of clean energy on the overall cement production system. Through a series of sustainable indicator measurements, the results prove that: (1) the two primary sections, non-renewable resource and non-renewable energy, contribute 88.6% and 11.1% of the emergy proportion, respectively; (2) the emergy sustainability indicator (ESI) was only 0.058, which is significantly less than the standard; (3) through the analysis of eight hypotheses, a very small change between the absolute values was found, which demonstrates that the sensitivity changes are within acceptable limits for the cement production system; and (4) by integrating the biological power generation subsystem, sustainability has been optimized in the cement production system. Finally, two ameliorated strategies are discussed in this paper for the better sustainability performance of the cement production system in the future. Full article
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