Application and adaptation of a scale-up framework for life cycle assessment to resource recovery from waste systems

Prospective Life Cycle Assessment of Biological Methanation in a Trickle-Bed Pilot Plant and a Potential Scale-Up

“…The investigations were carried out with the software openLCA 2.0.0 and the database ecoinvent 3.9.1. Ecoinvent is a widely used database that provides a very good basis for carrying out work in the field of life cycle assessment and thus for this work [26,[44][45][46].…”

“…Piccinno et al and Simon et al have described an appropriate framework that can be applied to the scale-up of the trickle-bed bioreactor [47,48]. The application of this methodology has been successfully demonstrated, for example, in the treatment of sewage sludge [46].…”

Prospective LCA to provide environmental guidance for developing waste-to-PHA biorefineries

“…Upscaling was performed using Piccinno et al (2016) framework and pilot scale data. Elginoz et al (2022) tested the application of this framework in anaerobic digestion and found that the main differences between industrial scale data and upscaled experimental data is caused by the difference in the methane production yield (Elginoz et al, 2022). Using mathematical models to estimate the yields combined with lab-scale data can decrease the level of uncertainty (Elginoz et al, 2022) as models impose restrictions (e.g., mass, elemental, electron balances) on the range of yield values.…”

“…Elginoz et al (2022) tested the application of this framework in anaerobic digestion and found that the main differences between industrial scale data and upscaled experimental data is caused by the difference in the methane production yield (Elginoz et al, 2022). Using mathematical models to estimate the yields combined with lab-scale data can decrease the level of uncertainty (Elginoz et al, 2022) as models impose restrictions (e.g., mass, elemental, electron balances) on the range of yield values. In this sense, the computer-aided design tool previously developed by Saavedra del Oso et al ( 2022) can be employed to estimate the anaerobic fermentation yield and assess the environmental performance of other waste streams.…”

Integrated methodology for sustainability assessment of several innovative materials and processes in different industrial scenarios

“…In literature, some parametrized LCA studies were used to evaluate and support the eco-design of emerging technologies in other sectors (e.g. Elginoz et al, 2022;Prézélus et al, 2021) based on process modelling, scenarios building with different parameters values and sensitivity analysis to identify the key parameters.…”