This study aimed to evaluate the environmental footprint and feed energy conversion ratio of Alpine dairy chains in Eastern Alps, taking into account both milk production processing phases, identify farm management features useful for targeting mitigation measures phase. A cradle-to-farm gate Life Cycle Assessment model that included herd manure management, on-farm feedstuff purchased feedstuff...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a new class of materials that has shown great potential in catalysis, sensing, separations, and carbon capture storage. Conventionally, MOFs synthesized at lab-scale using organic solvent-based systems, leading to high environmental burdens operating costs, which ultimately hinders the large-scale production application MOFs. Aqueous synthesis overcomes such ...

Background: Hermetia illucens L. have gained popularity in recent years as an environmentally friendly response to both the present and potential future food/feed crisis. The larvae of H. L., or black soldier fly (BSFL), is alternative solution tackle issue organic waste bioconversion. However, understanding environmental loads as...

Sugarcane-based ethanol in Colombia has a prospective opportunity to explore the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass taking into account that a large amount of generated residues (between 50 and 100 t/ha) are left on the field after green harvesting. The use of sugarcane green harvesting residues for ethanol production could be considered as a feasible solution but it is facing h...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of livestock production systems is often based on inventory data for farms typical of a study region. As information on individual animals is often unavailable, livestock data may already be aggregated at the time of inventory analysis, both across individual animals and across seasons. Even though various computational tools exist to consider the effect of genetic a...

This study aimed to reduce the holistic environmental impacts of insulation materials proposed for accommodation a marine cargo ship, and suggest optimal option cleaner ship production, using life cycle assessment. With commercial bulk carrier as case three major insulations were assessed, which wool-based material (mineral wool or glass wool), expanded polystyrene, polyurethane foam. The analy...

This paper presents an application of LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) with a view to analyzing the environment aspects of rice straw-based power generation in Malaysia. It also compares rice straw-based power generation with that of coal and natural gas. GHG (Greenhouse gas) emission savings were calculated. It finds that rice straw power generation can save GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions of about ...