Sustainability of renewable fuel infrastructure: a screening LCA case study of anticorrosive graphene oxide epoxy liners in steel tanks for the storage of biodiesel and its blends

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Govinda Chilkoor ◽  
Venkata K. K. Upadhyayula ◽  
Venkataramana Gadhamshetty ◽  
Nikhil Koratkar ◽  
Mats Tysklind
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Epoxy Coatings ◽  
Renewable Fuel ◽  
Screening Lca ◽  
Steel Tanks ◽  
Lca Case Study

Antimicrobial graphene oxide-epoxy coatings can potentially reduce the environmental impacts caused by biocide usage while storing biodiesel and its blends.

scholarly journals Optimizing the Environmental and Economic Sustainability of Remote Community Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie E. Filer ◽  
Justin D. Delorit ◽  
Andrew J. Hoisington ◽  
Steven J. Schuldt
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Model Performance ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Remote Community ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
Study Results

Remote communities such as rural villages, post-disaster housing camps, and military forward operating bases are often located in remote and hostile areas with limited or no access to established infrastructure grids. Operating these communities with conventional assets requires constant resupply, which yields a significant logistical burden, creates negative environmental impacts, and increases costs. For example, a 2000-member isolated village in northern Canada relying on diesel generators required 8.6 million USD of fuel per year and emitted 8500 tons of carbon dioxide. Remote community planners can mitigate these negative impacts by selecting sustainable technologies that minimize resource consumption and emissions. However, the alternatives often come at a higher procurement cost and mobilization requirement. To assist planners with this challenging task, this paper presents the development of a novel infrastructure sustainability assessment model capable of generating optimal tradeoffs between minimizing environmental impacts and minimizing life-cycle costs over the community’s anticipated lifespan. Model performance was evaluated using a case study of a hypothetical 500-person remote military base with 864 feasible infrastructure portfolios and 48 procedural portfolios. The case study results demonstrated the model’s novel capability to assist planners in identifying optimal combinations of infrastructure alternatives that minimize negative sustainability impacts, leading to remote communities that are more self-sufficient with reduced emissions and costs.

scholarly journals Product-Service Systems and Sustainability: Analysing the Environmental Impacts of Rental Clothing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2118
Author(s):  
Emma Johnson ◽  
Andrius Plepys
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Environmental Savings ◽  
Product Service Systems

Business models like product-service systems (PSSs) often recognise different sustainability goals and are seen as solutions for the impacts of consumption and fast fashion, but there is a lack of evidence supporting the environmental claims of such business models for clothing. The research aimed to understand if rental clothing business models such as PSSs have the environmental benefits often purported by quantifying the environmental impacts of rental formal dresses in a life-cycle assessment (LCA) in a case study in Stockholm, Sweden. The effects of varying consumer behaviour on the potential impact of a PSS vs. linear business model are explored through three functional units and 14 consumption scenarios. How users decide to engage with clothing PSSs dictates the environmental savings potential that a PSS can have, as shown in how many times consumers wear garments, how they use rental to substitute their purchasing or use needs, as well as how consumers travel to rental store locations.

Fabrication of graphene oxide–alumina hybrids to reinforce the anti-corrosion performance of composite epoxy coatings

2015 ◽  
Vol 351 ◽  
pp. 986-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongxue Yu ◽  
Haihui Di ◽  
Yu Ma ◽  
Liang Lv ◽  
Yang Pan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Corrosion Performance ◽  
Epoxy Coatings

Modeling inventory and environmental impacts of car maintenance and repair: A case study of Ford Focus passenger car

2021 ◽  
pp. 128085
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Danilecki ◽  
Jacek Eliasz ◽  
Piotr Smurawski ◽  
Wojciech Stanek ◽  
Andrzej Szlęk
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Passenger Car ◽  
Maintenance And Repair
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