Browsing Faculty Contributions by Subject "Life cycle assessment"
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A systematic review for sustainability of global liquified natural gas industry: A 10-year update
( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)This paper presents a comprehensive review and 10-years update of the sustainability research related to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) worldwide for the period between 2010 and 2020. Using the Scopus database, 467 articles, ... -
An environmental burden shifting approach to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of products
( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)Life cycle assessment (LCA) can help enterprises evaluate their product's environmental impacts through the entire product life cycle (PLC). On the basis of the evaluation result, phases which need to take activities to ... -
Biohydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass: Technology and sustainability
( MDPI AG , 2015 , Article)Among the various renewable energy sources, biohydrogen is gaining a lot of traction as it has very high efficiency of conversion to usable power with less pollutant generation. The various technologies available for the ... -
Eco-efficiency of electric vehicles in the United States: A life cycle assessment based principal component analysis
( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)This research presents an integrated sustainability assessment framework applied to electric vehicle technologies in the United States of America. Two methods; principal component analysis and life cycle assessment are ... -
Electrofuels as emerging new green alternative fuel: A review of recent literature
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article Review)The transportation sector is a major contributor in global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Vital measures should be taken in order to reduce the GHG, among these measures is using electrofuels. Electrofuels are produced ... -
Environmental efficiency of electric vehicles in Europe under various electricity production mix scenarios
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)Decarbonizing residential transportation sector depends on the energy mix. A need for environmental efficiency of electric vehicles considering the life cycle impacts of electricity generation under different mix scenarios ... -
Life cycle air emissions and social human health impact assessment of liquified natural gas maritime transport
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)Air pollution, which causes over seven million deaths per year, is the most significant and specifically related to health impacts. Nearly 90% of the urban population worldwide is exposed to pollution not meeting the World ... -
Life Cycle Assessment for Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP)nComposites Used in Concrete Beams: A State-of-the-Art Review
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2020 , Conference Paper)Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have become popularly utilized in structural engineering applications. The common use of the FRP composites is related to their economic benefits that can be observed right away ... -
Life cycle assessment of a microbial desalination cell for sustainable wastewater treatment and saline water desalination
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Microbial desalination cells (MDCs), with bifunctional capacity to simultaneously treat wastewater and desalinate seawater at low energy consumption, have attracted great attention in recent years. However, the environmental ... -
Life cycle assessment of osmotic microbial fuel cells for simultaneous wastewater treatment and resource recovery
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)Purpose An osmotic microbial fuel cell (OsMFC) is derived from the integration of a forward osmosis (FO) membrane into a conventional microbial fuel cell (MFC), with enhanced performance in bioelectricity generation from ... -
Life cycle environmental impact comparison of bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are developed to transform the energy harvested from the biomass into electricity. Different types of BESs including microbial fuel cell (MFC), microbial electrolysis cell (MEC), and ... -
Material footprint of electric vehicles: A multiregional life cycle assessment
( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)Most of the global multiregional studies have looked at material footprint (MF) of either a nation or a region. A product-specific MF analysis, particularly when it comes to Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFVs), carried out ... -
A systematic review on sustainability assessment of electric vehicles: Knowledge gaps and future perspectives
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Electric mobility is emerging all around the world to minimize environmental impacts, reduce dependency on petroleum, and diversify energy sources for transportation. Any emerging technology comes with uncertainties in ... -
Well-to-wheel water footprints of conventional versus electric vehicles in the United States: A state-based comparative analysis
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Today, increasing levels of water demand become a particularly serious challenge for many countries, especially since water is an essential element for production of transportation fuels. Unfortunately, no research efforts ...