The new biomimetic model membrane system can be applied for rapid screening of the activities of penetration enhancers, and provides insight into the mechanisms of permeability of membrane-active compounds.
International audienceBest Available Techniques encompass preventive and end-of-pipe solutions aimed to contribute to the sustainability of the European industry. They are determined by the official Sevilla Process based on extensive data collection and analysis, supporting formal negotiation steps. This article presents a statistical multicriteria method applied to the dairy sector to help determine reference sites likely to use BATs. This 5-step methodology is based on two classifications: representative or performant sites. Performant sites selected by the Pareto front analysis are better than representative sites. In the representative analysis, the size of installations seems to be inversely proportional to their environmental impacts
Immortal products are updated and upgraded to go from application to application and, in so doing, to extend their life as long as possible. Designing such products is the key to a sustainable society from the circular economy perspective. It is a new way of designing that must be supported by engineering tools to be deployed in companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) included. The implementation of circular loops and the associated industrial systems are very dependent on the contexts and life scenarios of the products. Thus, depending on the products to be re-circulated, the processes controlled, and the actors involved, the requirements to be reported at design level are very diverse. This paper proposes a new design method based on lifecycle scenarios to be analyzed and designed. Supported by classical engineering tools that has been adapted for circular economy (CE) context, the lifecycle model enables simultaneous design of businesses, products and services and the evaluation of their environmental values. Three industrial design cases showing the application of engineering tools for implementation of CE lifecycle scenarios are presented.
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