In this study the environmental performance of a first-of-its-kind integrated process based on supercritical water gasification and oxidation (SCW-GcO), was evaluated using life cycle assessment (LCA). The process was applied to the treatment of carbon black and used oil as model wastes. Mass and energy balances were performed using Aspen Plus, and the environmental assessment was carried out through SimaPro. A “from cradle to grave” approach was chosen for the analysis, considering impact categories such as climate change, ozone depletion, human toxicity, particulate matter, land use, resource depletion, and other relevant indicators. The environmental profile of the SCW-GcO process was compared to other technologies for the treatment of dangerous wastes, solvent mixtures, and exhaust mineral oils by using the Ecoinvent database. It is shown that SCW-GcO allows for reduced impacts in different categories and the obtention of a favorable positive life cycle energy balance, achieving good environmental performance.
The aim of this work is to propose a global and complex vision of the phenomenon of addictions, with an eye reserved for those without substances, drawing on living experience from daily clinical practice in a Service specifically designed to treat new addictions. We will observe them through the phenomenological method, which seems to suggest that they are an epiphenomenomenon of a global crisis of the World of Life as understood by Husserl (2008). This work will constantly move along the awareness of the tragedy underlying the new addictions but at the same time going beyond the mere phenomenal manifestation: they will thus be considered in their bio-psycho-social breadth in an attempt not to lose the sense of what is not only a disorder but also a post-contemporary epidemiological crisis because today it spreads faster than any current treatment put in the field, whether operational or preventive. It is a crisis that affects the Social World [..] the Bodily World [..] the Emotional World [..] the Psychic World [..] Finally, we will walk the corridors of a non-place of life such as the prison to observe what subtly changes in this sphere also within it. In the operative and territorial clinic of the old and new addictions, psychotherapy would seem to play a fundamental role [..] Our aim will be to try to deal with and embrace all this even if only skimming this complexity together with some initial data emerged from the experiences carried out in the last years at the UOC Behavioural Addictions of the ASL Caserta.
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