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Life cycle sustainability assessment-based tools
(Elsevier, 2022)
This chapter establishes a baseline of ideas of what Life Cycle Thinking means: going beyond the traditional focus, understanding and including the whole environmental, social, and economic implications of decision-making ...
Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost of sugar plants evaporators
(ESCOLA DE MINAS, 2010)
The evaporators of sugar plants in Brazil have used carbon steel intensively because of it is, a low priced material, which possesses inferior corrosion resistance. The materials more indicated for the substitution of ...
Curauá fibers in the automobile industry - a sustainability assessment
(2007-03-14)
Replacing glass fibers with natural fibers in the automobile industry can yield economic, environmental and social benefits. This article evaluates the prospective environmental impacts of automobile applications of curauá ...
Measuring the potential for sustainable intensification of aquaculture in Bangladesh using life cycle assessment
(National Academy of Sciences, 2018)
Assessment of the sustainability of asphalt pavement maintenance using the microwave heating self-healing technique
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2022)
Pavements are the major load-carrying Civil Engineering structures in roads, runways, parking lots, and driveways; hence, they are fundamental for regional or national development. However, the pavement life cycle has ...
Sustainability assessment and prioritisation of e-waste management options in Brazil
(Elsevier B.V., 2016-11-01)
Brazil has an increasing rate of e-waste generation, but there are currently few adequate management systems in operation, with the largest share of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) going to landfill sites ...
Technologies for information management of life cycle inventories of the product and service supply chain in the Brazilian industry
(Ieee, 2013-01-01)
Information dissemination by means of computer networks uses information systems to store, retrieve and transmit knowledge, which are considered very important tools for society nowadays. The concepts of Information Science, ...
Sustainable scheduling: Development and application of an integrated method combining NEH heuristic and life cycle assessment
(2021-01-01)
This paper has developed a model to perform more sustainable scheduling in manufacturing operations based on the combination of makespan, profit margin, and environmental impact indicators. A case study was designed to run ...