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Life cycle assessment of three different management options for spent alkaline ...

The potential environmental impact of Landfilling, Incineration and Recycling of spent household alkaline batteries collected in continental Portugal was compared using LCA methodology and the Recipe Impact Assessment method. Major contributors and improvement opportunities for each system were identified and scenarios for 2012 and 2016 legislation targets were evaluated. For 13 out of the 18 impact categories,...

Improving cities sustainability through the use of data mining in a context of ...

Nowadays, cities consume more energy to fuel their day-to-day activities. With the rise of electrical devices we face more challenges associated with energy control and distribution. Apart from this, we also spend a lot of energy trying to either heating or cooling our homes. This paper illustrates an architecture to extract, load, transform, mine and forecast Big Data. This technological architecture makes use...

Life cycle assessment of alternatives for recycling abroad alkaline batteries f...

The European legislation establishes collection rates and states that all identifiable batteries must undergo treatment and recycling. Due to the inexistence in Portugal of recycling plants for alkaline batteries, those collected there have been sent to Austria and France, and currently, it is pondered to send them to Spain. This study aims to know the potential environmental impacts associated with the managem...

Wood and Wood-based Panel Machining Quality

Laboratory study on the leaching potential of spent alkaline batteries using a ...

Two leaching tests were carried out, one with whole batteries and another with cross-cut batteries. In both cases, NEN 7343 (a Nederland's Standard) procedure was followed using a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill leachate as extraction solution. Seven fractions were collected corresponding to cumulative liquid/solid (L/S) ratio from 0.1 to 10.0. Those fractions were separately characterized in terms of pH, ...

A made-to-measure indicator for cross-disciplinary bibliometric ranking of rese...

This paper presents and discusses a new bibliometric indicator of research performance, designed with the fundamental concern of enabling cross-disciplinary comparisons. The indicator, called x-index, compares a researcher's output to a reference set of research output from top researchers, identified in the journals where the researcher has published. It reflects publication quantity and quality, uses a modera...

Selecting industrial ecology tools: strengths and weaknesses for use in a decis...

This study gives an overview of selected Industrial Ecology (IE) tools in current use by industry and that could be used to assess the environmental performance. The tools selected are considered to be useful for a decision support tool (DST) that takes a company perspective, while considering environmental and economic aspects on the decision-making process.We define criteria for a first selection of IE tools....

Inventory of pollution reduction options for an aluminium pressure die casting ...

This study presents an overview of options aiming to reduce emissions to air, soil and water from an aluminium die casting plant located in Portugal. We identify eighteen pollution reduction options and then estimate their potential to reduce the pollution, and the costs associated with their implementation to the die casting plant. The different types of options considered include typical end-of-pipe solutions...

Strategies to reduce the environmental impact of an aluminium pressure die cast...

This study explores a model (MIKADO) to analyse scenarios for the reduction of the environmental impact of an aluminium die casting plant. Our model calculates the potential to reduce emissions, and the costs associated with implementation of reduction options. In an earlier paper [Neto, B., Kroeze, C., Hordijk, L., Costa, C., 2008. Modelling the environmental impact Of all aluminium pressure die casting compan...

Selecting Environmental Systems Analysis Tools: Strengths and Weaknesses for Us...

An overview of selected environmental systems analysis (ESA) tools currently used by industry is given, including tools to assess the environmental performance of a company. These tools may be useful for a decision support tool (DST) that takes a company perspective, while considering environmental and economic aspects on the decision-making process. We define criteria for a first selection of ESA tools. The cr...