Assessing aquaculture sustainability: a comparative methodology

Assessing Environmental Sustainability and Value Addition Opportunities for By-products from Aquaculture

Aquaculture Sustainability: Developing Concepts of a Decision Support Tool for Licensing Freshwater Cage Aquaculture in Ontario

Approaches to managing aquaculture’s sustainability have traditionally focused on a relatively few, but important, environmental impact parameters. A broader and more contemporary concept of aquaculture sustainability has now evolved to include various other parameters considered relevant to those multiple stakeholder groups who may be affected by the industry and its practices. Consequently, t...

A Simulation-Based Methodology of Assessing Environmental Sustainability and Productivity for Integrated Process and Production Plans

With the increasing attention directed to sustainable manufacturing, systematic methodologies are needed for not only incorporating the traditional performance indicators such as cost and quality, but also environmental impacts during the production stage. This requires the selection of processes and process settings for the production of the design features to be optimal (i.e., higher producti...

A Methodology for Assessing the Sustainability of Hydrogen Production from Solid Fuels

A methodology for assessing the sustainability of hydrogen production using solid fuels is introduced, in which three sustainability dimensions (ecological, sociological and technological) are considered along with ten indicators for each dimension. Values for each indicator are assigned on a 10-point scale based on a high of 1 and a low of 0, depending on the characteristic of the criteria ass...

A novel methodology for assessing the environmental sustainability of ionic liquids used for CO2 capture.

Ionic liquids (ILs) have been proposed as suitable sorbents for CO2 capture because of their high CO2 absorption capacity, thermal stability, negligible vapour pressure and physico-chemical tunability. However, the environmental implications of ILs are currently largely unknown because of a lack of data. The issue is further complicated by their complex chemical structures and numerous precurso...