Burning of biomass fuels comprises to nearly 10% of the total energy from anthropogenic combustion processes; however, as the burning is usually incomplete, this process yields products of incomplete combustion posing consequently significant impacts on air
Read More2016.7.26 Policies and ethics. Plants in their natural environment are often exposed to a variety of environmental stresses. This chapter emphasises the importance of
Read More2017.10.31 Research related to the impacts of environmental change on food production has mainly focused on the effects of climate change on staple crops (
Read More2019.11.19 This is despite strong co-control of sulfur in CCS plants ... Special attention is needed for environmental impacts related to land-use, since for many
Read More2018.4.13 Greenhouse gas emissions. A main objective of biogas industry is the reduction of fossil fuel consumption, with the final goal of
Read More2023.3.29 The potential epidemiological and environmental impacts on human health related to biogas plants were assessed by means of a review of the available literature. Nineteen papers published between
Read More2018.5.24 Fig. 1. Publications related to bioenergy production and its environmental effects (water quantity and quality, biodiversity and SOC, soil erosion, and GHG
Read More2022.3.17 Existing major REE deposits (Bayan Obo in China, Mountain Pass in the United States, Mount Weld in Australia, ion-adsorption deposits in several Chinese
Read More2020.2.19 Some invasive plants modify the soil microbiome in ways that have negative impacts on native plants, including reductions in beneficial mutualists and
Read More2015.4.29 Surrogate species selection for assessing potential adverse environmental impacts of genetically engineered insect-resistant plants on non-target organisms. GM
Read More2022.3.29 Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate forcing ...
Read More2023.9.5 Cotton — supplying approximately a quarter of global textile fibres — has various environmental impacts, including water use, toxicity, eutrophication and greenhouse gas emissions. In this ...
Read More2015.3.1 The primary environmental issues related to wind turbine usage include wildlife safety, bio-system disturbance, noise, visual pollution, electromagnetic interference, and local climate change [8], [9]. These issues can be grouped into ecological effects, impacts on humans, and climate-related issues [10], [11]. 2.1.
Read More2022.11.1 In this assessment, to model the impact of the six covering material scenarios that were assessed we focused on the iRTG 1 located at the top of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) building (Fig. 1).The building's footprint is 36 m by 36 m and it has 7 stories, including four Venlo-iRTGs on the top floor of 128 m
Read More2021.8.1 The average environmental impact index of 2.6 on a multi-criteria scale ±15 obtained in the Condominium is higher than the average environmental impact index (0.58) observed in the ex-ante analysis of impacts related to 10 technologies developed by Embrapa Agroenergia Research Center [29]. The positive environmental performances
Read More2023.4.10 Climate change poses a series of challenges to water management to satisfy society’s current and future needs. Considering water an essential resource for life, this research is dedicated to comparing the environmental impacts caused by the conventional water supply system and Conventional Water Supply system
Read More2023.3.29 The increasing demand for renewable energy production entails the development of novel green technologies, among them the use of biomass for energy generation. Industrial processes raise new issues regarding emerging risks for the health of people working in biogas plants and of nearby communities. The potential
Read More2022.12.1 Respiratory issues, neurological impacts, stomach or liver disorders, and skin irritation are some of the negative health effects of exposure. Additionally, 99 percent of utilized pesticides and 95 percent of applied micronutrients for agrochemicals bounce off the plant and are wasted (Duarte et al. 2016 ).
Read More2019.8.9 2.1.3 Multidimensionality of Environmental Impacts. While this is no way unique to industrial biotechnology processes, it is worth noting that environmental impacts relating to a single process can occur along multiple dimensions – emissions to air, water, and soil leading to climate change, ozone depletion, resource depletion, acidification,
Read More2022.3.2 The food industry represents a vast environmental burden to our planet. Most animal products are known to have greater environmental impacts than alternative plant-based sources of nutrition. One of the most consumed animal products are eggs, represented in most dietary habits both as a primary ingredient and processed. In the
Read More2007.2.22 the full-fuel-cycle environmental impacts of grid interconnections is an important element of the overall ... supplies for power plants, and impacts related to power plant wastes. 7.3. Potential ...
Read More2021.2.1 This paper discusses in detail the environmental impacts of several commercial and emerging solar energy systems at both small- and utility-scales. The study expands to some of the related advances, as well as some of the essential elements in their systems. The approach follows all the stages, starting with the designs, then throughout
Read MoreOne of our era's greatest scourges is air pollution, on account not only of its impact on climate change but also its impact on public and individual health due to increasing morbidity and mortality. There are many pollutants that
Read More2020.1.1 The aim of the present study is to assess the environmental impacts of 18 biomass-based plants located in the Alpine region using a Life Cycle Assessment approach and to analyse the current market destination of the wood residues. The data were collected through face-to-face interviews with the stakeholders of the forest-wood supply chain ...
Read More2020.12.13 Although the environmental impacts of the CO 2-based process are generally lower than the conventional methanol production, mineral depletion and water depletion, which are more related to the production of hydrogen, are exceptions, with an increase by 9 and 45 % respectively. 78 For other environmental impacts, values were
Read More2022.4.13 The environmental impacts of agricultural productions can be assessed in their entirety with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a widely accepted tool for environmental impact assessment. ISO 14046 is a stand-alone WFP impact assessment method that uses a range of potential water-related impact categories, such as water scarcity (consumption
Read More2019.3.15 PDF Assessing the impacts of alien plant species is a major task in invasion science and vitally important for supporting invasion-related policies.... Find, read and cite all the research you ...
Read More2022.4.5 Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions (‘the IED’) 1 regulates the environmental impacts of around 52 000 of Europe’s large-scale, high-pollution-risk industrial installations and livestock farms (‘agro-industrial installations’) in an integrated manner, on a sector-by-sector basis. It covers all relevant pollutants potentially emitted by agro
Read More2023.4.20 Plastics are essential materials for modern societies, but their production contributes to significant environmental issues. Power-to-X processes could produce plastics from captured CO 2 and hydrogen with renewable electricity, but these technologies may also face challenges from environmental perspective. This paper focuses on
Read More2023.9.2 The influence of ruminant consumption on the ecosystem and human health has become a significant challenge (1, 16).The environmental footprint of consuming ruminant meat is one or two magnitudes larger than that of consuming non-ruminant animal products or high-protein foods obtained from plants ().Even for ruminant meat or milk
Read More2022.3.1 Environmental impacts of plastic recycling in the GCC According to the GPCA, the rate of post-consumer recycling of PP worldwide is about 1 %, meaning that huge amounts of PP find
Read More1.3.1 THE ENVIRONMENT. Environmental impact refers to the impact on the ecosystem. The elimination or disruption of members of various flora and fauna species are of particular interest. With any electrical generation facility there will be environmental impacts related to mining and processing the fuel, and transporting it to the power plant site.
Read More2024.1.2 This study aimed to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the anaerobic two-stage biogas system: (i) pilot plant and (ii) commercial plant. The functional unit (FU) describes the primary function of treating the different methods as functionally equivalent compared to the biogas production systems [ 35 ].
Read More2018.5.24 A survey based on publication results related to bioenergy production and its environmental impacts was carried out using the on-line Scopus-Elsevier database (scopus).Principally, studies containing the key words of the present study (listed in Fig. 1) were examined within the reference period (2000–2017).The papers
Read More2022.3.2 Changes in impact categories for organic eggs with the same yield as eggs produced in a battery system using Environmental Footprint 3.0, for one kilogram of eggs: (a) compared to the baseline; (b ...
Read More2016.1.28 Purpose Expanding renewable energy production is widely accepted as a promising strategy in climate change mitigation. However, even renewable energy production has some environmental impacts, some of which are not (yet) covered in life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). We aim to identify the most important cause-effect
Read More2022.6.1 Thus, this research aims to identify and analyse the main environmental impacts related to the end-of-life of wind farms scenarios, based on the state of the art and a literature review. ... Wind energy plants repowering potential in Italy: Technical-economic assessment. Renew Energy, 115 (2018), pp. 382-390, 10.1016/j.renene.2017.08.031.
Read More2014.4.1 In the actual scenario plants equipped with anaerobic sludge digestion (type 3 and type 4) perform better than medium sized aerobic plants (type 2) for the climate change, fossil depletion, and terrestrial ecotoxicity impact categories, whereas for eutrophication and other toxicity-related categories they show higher environmental
Read More2022.4.6 The cement industry confronts significant challenges in raw materials, energy demands, and CO2 emissions reduction, which are global and local environmental concerns. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used in many studies to assess the environmental impact of cement production and investigate ways to improve
Read More2014.3.21 Environmental Impacts. Thomas Abdallah, in Sustainable Mass Transit, 2017. Conclusion. Environmental impacts are changes in the natural or built environment, resulting directly from an activity, that can have adverse effects on the air, land, water, fish, and wildlife or the inhabitants of the ecosystem. Pollution, contamination, or destruction
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