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Life cycle assessment of osmotic microbial fuel cells for simultaneous wastewater treatment and resource recovery
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
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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 ...
Material footprint of electric vehicles: A multiregional life cycle assessment
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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 ...
Eco-efficiency of electric vehicles in the United States: A life cycle assessment based principal component analysis
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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 ...
An environmental burden shifting approach to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of products
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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 ...
Well-to-wheel water footprints of conventional versus electric vehicles in the United States: A state-based comparative analysis
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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 ...
Life cycle environmental impact comparison of bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment
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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 ...
Biohydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass: Technology and sustainability
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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 ...
Life cycle assessment of a microbial desalination cell for sustainable wastewater treatment and saline water desalination
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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 ...