Building the ‘Bio-factory’: A bibliometric analysis of circular economies and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in wastewater treatment

Furness, Madeline; Bello-Mendoza, Ricardo; Dassonvalle, Jonatan; Chamy-Maggi, Rolando

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129127

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“…This method is known as an effective way of showing up the progression of relevant research with a historical approach and paving the way for future studies on a specific research topic. There are various novel studies that use the bibliometric analysis method to assess information regarding LCA (Furness et al, 2021, Moghayedi et al, 2022Norouzi et al, 2021;Ohene et al, 2022;Yu and Chen, 2022). The bibliometric analysis method is useful for investigating the growth of research topics, finding relationships between logical progresses, applying modifications to the common approach, and identifying expanding interdisciplinary alliances.…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis on Life Cycle Assessment of Bricks

Esidir

Gültekin²

2023

Period. Polytech. Arch.

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Conventional production methods used in the production process of bricks as a building material causes several impacts on the environment and climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation. The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is used to determine a material's carbon footprint from cradle to grave, including all production processes from the extraction of raw materials to the disposal of waste materials or re-use of recycled materials. It is important to examine the energy and material flow of the product using the LCA methodology to develop sustainable solutions in the production processes of brick material. This preliminary study aims to review existing LCA approaches about bricks, obtain bibliometric data from the published papers that include the analysis of the life cycle of bricks, and form a basis for the main study by analyzing literature data. Within the scope of this study, the bibliometric analysis method is used to examine available literature about the LCA of bricks, research gaps are investigated, and bibliometric mapping is implemented using several co-occurrences such as authorship, publication years, countries, keywords, etc. Web of Science and Scopus databases are used for bibliometric mapping. The results of the study show that it is an emerging research topic mostly studied in the context of environmental sciences, engineering, and technology that needs further research, especially in Turkey. Also, this topic is generally covered with and related to building materials, sustainability, waste management, biosolids, carbon emission, environmental impacts, recycling, and circular economy.

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A Bibliometric Analysis on Life Cycle Assessment of Bricks

Esidir

Gültekin²

2023

Period. Polytech. Arch.

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“…According to Paletto et al (2020), the bibliometric approach is based on three visions regarding the productivity of researchers, the performance of studies and the links between them. In addition, the bibliometric analysis presents all these indicators on different types of aggregation, depending on individuals, groups, institutions or countries (Zhong et al, 2016;Konstantinis et al, 2018;Furness et al, 2021). To calculate these variables, we have used the R Bibliometrix package, which provides a complete metadata processing facility (Pilkington & Meredith, 2009;Mougenot & Doussoulin, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

The importance and interdependence of key bioeconomy concepts: A bibliometric analysis

Gradinaru

Matei

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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Environmental well-being has recently been put at risk due to unsustainable industrial practices. The relevant decision-makers have developed policies to support a greener approach in the economy. This paper aims to present a complete and comprehensive connection between the key concepts of the economy based on biological resources from both empirical and analytical perspectives by highlighting the structure, importance, and evolution. Through bibliometric research and network mapping analysis, we have revealed the most popular concept among researchers and countries, and the current trend for each term considered. Currently, there is no comparative study on the linkage between bioeconomy, circular economy, knowledgebased economy, bio-based economy, green economy, and bioeconomics, but only taken as separate concepts, thus being difficult to assess the significance and popularity of a term over another and to track the evolution over time. Our results are meant to cover the gap around the interconnected terms in bioeconomy and to enhance the current conceptual frameworks.

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“…While the existing scope factors of LCA focus on environmental impacts, sustainability assessments are increasingly required to encompass the social and economic dimensions of sustainability . Researchers have suggested that sustainability can foster economic progress, environmental management, and social welfare by piloting technological development and ensuring resource utilization. − To achieve this goal, it is necessary to integrate various disciplines and dimensions to capture the interaction between human social and natural environmental systems. The life-cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) proposed by the Initiative of Life Cycle defines three sustainability dimensions: environment, economy, and society .…”

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Integrating Time, Region, and Society Dimensions into a Multi-Dimensional Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainable Dihydroxyacetone Production

Zhou

Sun

Yang

et al. 2023

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

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Despite the growing importance of life-cycle analysis in achieving sustainable development goals, the community has not yet reached a consensus on how to couple multi-objective and multi-dimensional sustainability assessment methodologies. The current study tackles this problem by employing crude glycerol as a raw material for the production of value-added dihydroxyacetone. We outline a framework for a multi-dimensional life-cycle sustainability assessment that optimizes techno-economic, social, and environmental performance, taking into account factors such as time, region, and markets. We further propose a model that integrates a wide range of parameters including time, region, society, people’s livelihood, environment, and techno-economic analysis methodologies, which is optimized by the NSGA-III algorithm. The efficacy of the framework was demonstrated through analyzing renewable dihydroxyacetone production by catalytic oxidation from glycerol, in comparison with a more traditional fermentation pathway. Detailed life-cycle inventory data were generated to identify the specific advantages of the production process. The results of our life-cycle optimization framework are comprehensive, and the methodology is likely to be extendable to other emerging techniques.

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Building the ‘Bio-factory’: A bibliometric analysis of circular economies and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in wastewater treatment

Cited by 24 publications

References 98 publications

A Bibliometric Analysis on Life Cycle Assessment of Bricks

A Bibliometric Analysis on Life Cycle Assessment of Bricks

The importance and interdependence of key bioeconomy concepts: A bibliometric analysis

Integrating Time, Region, and Society Dimensions into a Multi-Dimensional Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainable Dihydroxyacetone Production

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