Case B: Environmental Impact of Photovoltaic Lighting

Durlinger, Bart

doi:10.1002/9781118361177.oth2

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“…The construction of 9- and 10-story apartments, in East London and Melbourne in the time frame between 2009 and 2011, represented the pinnacle, real-world applications, of this construction archetype, made entirely of CLT panels. Each building respectively claimed a savings of 310 and 1645 metric tons of carbon dioxide, in terms of carbon sequestered and avoided by using wood in place of steel and concrete…”

Section: Engineered Wood Products In Contemporary State-of-the-art Bu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Engineered Wood for Building Applications

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The building sector, including building operations and materials, was responsible for the emission of ∼11.9 gigatons of global energy-related CO2 in 2020, accounting for 37% of the total CO2 emissions, the largest share among different sectors. Lowering the carbon footprint of buildings requires the development of carbon-storage materials as well as novel designs that could enable multifunctional components to achieve widespread applications. Wood is one of the most abundant biomaterials on Earth and has been used for construction historically. Recent research breakthroughs on advanced engineered wood products epitomize this material’s tremendous yet largely untapped potential for addressing global sustainability challenges. In this review, we explore recent developments in chemically modified wood that will produce a new generation of engineered wood products for building applications. Traditionally, engineered wood products have primarily had a structural purpose, but this review broadens the classification to encompass more aspects of building performance. We begin by providing multiscale design principles of wood products from a computational point of view, followed by discussion of the chemical modifications and structural engineering methods used to modify wood in terms of its mechanical, thermal, optical, and energy-related performance. Additionally, we explore life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis tools for guiding future research toward environmentally friendly and economically feasible directions for engineered wood products. Finally, this review highlights the current challenges and perspectives on future directions in this research field. By leveraging these new wood-based technologies and analysis tools for the fabrication of carbon-storage materials, it is possible to design sustainable and carbon-negative buildings, which could have a significant impact on mitigating climate change.

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Section: Engineered Wood Products In Contemporary State-of-the-art Bu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Engineered Wood for Building Applications

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“…Emission reductions At are calculated as the difference between baseline and project emissions by means of life cycle analysis. To this end, we updated the model described by Durlinger in [23] and [27], which is an attributional LCA model. Ecoinvent v2.2 data was used to model the background data [28].…”

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Economic and Environmental Performances of Small-Scale Rural PV Solar Projects under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Case of Cambodia

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Abstract:The two core objectives of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are cost-effective emission reduction and sustainable development. Despite the potential to contribute to both objectives, solar projects play a negligible role under the CDM. In this research, the greenhouse gas mitigation cost is used to evaluate the economic and environmental performances of small-scale rural photovoltaic solar projects. In particular, we compare the use of absolute and relative mitigation costs to evaluate the attractiveness of these projects under the CDM. We encourage the use of relative mitigation costs, implying consideration of baseline costs that render the projects profitable. Results of the mitigation cost analysis are dependent on the baseline chosen. To overcome this drawback, we complement the analysis with a multi-objective optimization approach, which allows quantifying the trade-off between economic and environmental performances of the optimal technologies without requiring a baseline. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 9893

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Case B: Environmental Impact of Photovoltaic Lighting

Cited by 2 publications

References 2 publications

Emerging Engineered Wood for Building Applications

Emerging Engineered Wood for Building Applications

Economic and Environmental Performances of Small-Scale Rural PV Solar Projects under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Case of Cambodia

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