Review of Life Cycle Assessment in Agro-Chemical Processes
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Sayed Tamizuddin Gillani
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method used to evaluate the potential impacts on the environment of a product, process, or activity throughout its life cycle. Today’s LCA users are a mixture of individuals with skills in different disciplines who want to evaluate their products, processes, or activities in a life cycle context. This study attempts to present some of the LCA studies on agro-chemical processes, recent advances in LCA and their application on food products and non-food products. Due to the recent development of LCA methodologies and dissemination programs by international and local bodies, use of LCA is rapidly increasing in agricultural and industrial products. The literatures suggest that LCA coupled with other environmental approaches provides much more reliable and comprehensive information to environmentally conscious policy makers, producers, and consumers in selecting sustainable products and production processes. For this purpose, a field study of LCA of biodiesel from Jatropha curcas has been taken as an example in the study. In the past, LCA has been applied primarily to products but recent literature suggests that it has also the potential as an analysis and design tool for processes and services. In general, all primary industries use energy and water resources and emit pollutants gases. LCA is a method to report on and analyze these resource issues across the life cycle of agro-chemical processes. This review has the importance as a first part of a research project to develop a life cycle assessment methodology for agro-chemical industries. It presents the findings of a literature review that focuses on LCA of agriculture and chemical engineering literature.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
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- Influence of Temperature and Pressure on the Non-Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Natural Gas
- CFD Simulation of Hydraulics of Sieve Trays with Gas Mal-Distribution
- Experimental Measurement and Modeling of Diffusion Anomalies in a CMS Membrane
- Moisture Diffusivity and Energy Consumption during Microwave Drying of Plaster of Paris
- Optimization studies on Biosorption of Copper (II) by Crab Shell Using Response Surface Methodology(RSM)
- Simulation and Control of a Commercial Double Effect Evaporator: Tomato Juice
- Novel PCA-Based Technique for Identification of Dominant Variables for Partial Control
- Search for Optimal Design of Multiproduct Batch Plants under Uncertain Demand using Gaussian Process Modeling Solved by Heuristics Methods
- Adsorption of Crude Oil Using Meshed Groundnut Husk
- Revisiting Reaction-Diffusion Process in a Porous Catalyst: Improving the Adomian Solution
- Combining Design of Experiments Techniques, Connectionist Models, and Optimization for the Efficient Design of New Product Formulations
- Simulation and Analysis of Multi-scale Transport Phenomena and Catalytic Reactions in SOFC Anodes
- Utilization of MATLAB to Simulate Kinetics of Transesterification of Palm Oil-Based Methyl Esters with Trimethylolpropane for Biodegradable Synthetic Lubricant Synthesis
- A Fault Detection and Diagnosis Strategy for Batch/Semi-Batch Processes
- Kinetic Study and Modeling of Aerobic Biological Oxidation of Organic Wastewater
- Conceptual Screening of Reactive Extraction Processing Options
- Production of p-Anisic Acid by Modified Williamson Etherification Reaction Using Design of Experiments
- Empty Spray Sections of Vacuum Towers: Heat and Mass Transfer with a CFD approach
- Influence of Phase Compositions, pH and Temperature on Bovine Serum Albumin Partitioning in Aqueous Biphasic System
- Separation of Organic Chlorine Compounds through Batch Distillation Process
- Modeling of Infrared Drying of Polymer Solutions
- An Object-Oriented Graphics Interface Simulator for Analysis of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
- CFD Simulation of Wall Effects in Flow Past a Square Cylinder in a Stationary and Moving Plane Channel
- Axial Variation of Mass Transfer Volumetric Coefficients in Bubble Column Bioreactors
- Thermodynamics of Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Some Dyes and Pharmaceutical Compounds Using the Weighting Matrix Approach
- Study of Numerous Injections into Horizontal Flow Stream at Low Temperature
- Bayesian Network Method for Fault Diagnosis in a Continuous Tubular Reactor
- Isotherm and Kinetics Modeling of Fluoride Removal from Industrial Effluent by Alumina
- Effect of Temperature and Catalyst Concentrations on the Thermal Properties of Polyamide Adhesives at Low Operating Pressure
- Microfluidics of Nanodrug Delivery at Different Angles of Drug Injection
- Optimization of Process Variables for Amylase Production Using Agro Residual Wastes by Taguchi Methodology
- Sorption of Acid Blue 9 on to Wheat Bran: Optimization, Equilibrium and Kinetic Studies
- Review
- Safety Improvement and Operational Enhancement via Dynamic Process Simulator: A Review
- Review of Life Cycle Assessment in Agro-Chemical Processes
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Influence of Temperature and Pressure on the Non-Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Natural Gas
- CFD Simulation of Hydraulics of Sieve Trays with Gas Mal-Distribution
- Experimental Measurement and Modeling of Diffusion Anomalies in a CMS Membrane
- Moisture Diffusivity and Energy Consumption during Microwave Drying of Plaster of Paris
- Optimization studies on Biosorption of Copper (II) by Crab Shell Using Response Surface Methodology(RSM)
- Simulation and Control of a Commercial Double Effect Evaporator: Tomato Juice
- Novel PCA-Based Technique for Identification of Dominant Variables for Partial Control
- Search for Optimal Design of Multiproduct Batch Plants under Uncertain Demand using Gaussian Process Modeling Solved by Heuristics Methods
- Adsorption of Crude Oil Using Meshed Groundnut Husk
- Revisiting Reaction-Diffusion Process in a Porous Catalyst: Improving the Adomian Solution
- Combining Design of Experiments Techniques, Connectionist Models, and Optimization for the Efficient Design of New Product Formulations
- Simulation and Analysis of Multi-scale Transport Phenomena and Catalytic Reactions in SOFC Anodes
- Utilization of MATLAB to Simulate Kinetics of Transesterification of Palm Oil-Based Methyl Esters with Trimethylolpropane for Biodegradable Synthetic Lubricant Synthesis
- A Fault Detection and Diagnosis Strategy for Batch/Semi-Batch Processes
- Kinetic Study and Modeling of Aerobic Biological Oxidation of Organic Wastewater
- Conceptual Screening of Reactive Extraction Processing Options
- Production of p-Anisic Acid by Modified Williamson Etherification Reaction Using Design of Experiments
- Empty Spray Sections of Vacuum Towers: Heat and Mass Transfer with a CFD approach
- Influence of Phase Compositions, pH and Temperature on Bovine Serum Albumin Partitioning in Aqueous Biphasic System
- Separation of Organic Chlorine Compounds through Batch Distillation Process
- Modeling of Infrared Drying of Polymer Solutions
- An Object-Oriented Graphics Interface Simulator for Analysis of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
- CFD Simulation of Wall Effects in Flow Past a Square Cylinder in a Stationary and Moving Plane Channel
- Axial Variation of Mass Transfer Volumetric Coefficients in Bubble Column Bioreactors
- Thermodynamics of Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Some Dyes and Pharmaceutical Compounds Using the Weighting Matrix Approach
- Study of Numerous Injections into Horizontal Flow Stream at Low Temperature
- Bayesian Network Method for Fault Diagnosis in a Continuous Tubular Reactor
- Isotherm and Kinetics Modeling of Fluoride Removal from Industrial Effluent by Alumina
- Effect of Temperature and Catalyst Concentrations on the Thermal Properties of Polyamide Adhesives at Low Operating Pressure
- Microfluidics of Nanodrug Delivery at Different Angles of Drug Injection
- Optimization of Process Variables for Amylase Production Using Agro Residual Wastes by Taguchi Methodology
- Sorption of Acid Blue 9 on to Wheat Bran: Optimization, Equilibrium and Kinetic Studies
- Review
- Safety Improvement and Operational Enhancement via Dynamic Process Simulator: A Review
- Review of Life Cycle Assessment in Agro-Chemical Processes
