Comparing environmental impacts of different forest management scenarios for maritime pine biomass production in France

González‐García, Sara; Bonnesoeur, Vivien; Pizzi, A.; Feijoo, Gumersindo; Moreira, María Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.040

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“…Feedstock production data have been adapted from other studies. SS0.1 includes activities ranging from soil preparation (use of fertilizers) to wood extraction . SS0.2 includes the sawmilling activities carried out to produce three main products: sawn timber, bark chips, and residual wood .…”

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Comparative evaluation of lignocellulosic biorefinery scenarios under a life‐cycle assessment approach

Bello

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Feijoo

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Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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The exploitation of lignocellulosic materials with the aim of producing high value‐added products will potentially counteract concerns such as depletion of fossil resources or exponential population growth. The present study focuses on the assessment of an integrated process based on organosolv fractionation of residual beech woodchips, with the objective of implementing concepts such as circular economy or process integration. The life‐cycle assessment (LCA) methodology and the eco‐efficiency concept allow for a holistic analysis of sustainability in terms of the system's environmental approach. The results show that the pre‐treatment of biomass together with the energy demands of the process and enzyme production constitute the hotspots of the system. Analyzing the system by means of the ecoefficiency indicator demonstrates that broadening the multi‐production spectrum of a biorefinery provides better results when production volume and processing steps fit environmental and techno‐economical requirements. © 2018 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative evaluation of lignocellulosic biorefinery scenarios under a life‐cycle assessment approach

Bello

Ríos

Feijoo

et al. 2018

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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“…Technology is considered in the current research as a theoretical and practical knowledge, skill or tool which is more suitably used for developing the products or services [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]. Technology, research and development management includes responsibility about the creating, buying, propagating and developing the technology to help human activities for providing demands of customers [71].…”

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Investigating the Role of Integrity between Total Quality Management and Technology Management in Determining the Quality and Innovation Functions: A Study About Productive Companies in Kerman Province, South-East Iran

Moshrefi¹

2015

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Abstract-The current paper is prepared based on a descriptive study and through it, the integrity between total quality management (TQM) and technology, research and development (TIM), along the prediction of organization's functions in quality and innovation field, are examined. This investigation shows the relationship between TQM and TIM with focusing on two important issues: first, the integrity between TQM and TIM is focused via studying the gap between these two important sections, which are separated in organizations and have different duty descriptions. Second, the impacts of integrity between TQM and TIM on function indices of quality and innovation, which are the first and most important resources in taking competitive advantages for organizations, are examined. The required information for this study is collected from 148 managers of productive companies with more than 500 personnel, in Kerman province, and the constitutive equations model technique is used to analyze the collected information. The results show that: TQM has strong predictive power for qualitative functions of organization but it has not any clear and significant relationship with innovation functions. TIM also has predictive power for qualitative functions of organization but its intensity is lower than TQM. However, TIM has a stronger relationship for predicting the innovation functions of organization than TQM. Finally, TQM and TIM have a correlation with each other. The most important result obtained from the current study is that technology, research and development management is a suitable resource for applying along with and in accordance with TQM which the result of this cooperation is improvement of qualitative functions, and with higher importance, is support of innovation functions in organizations.

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“…LCA has been applied to manufacturing (López Gayarre et al, 2015;Gan et al, 2016a), renewable energy production (Suwanit and Gheewala, 2011;Turney and Fthenakis, 2011;Varun et al, 2012;González-García et al, 2013b;Zhang et al, 2014), and forest product production (Dias and Arroja, 2012;Cambria and Pierangeli, 2012;González-García et al, 2013a, 2014aHan et al, 2015), among other fields. To quantify the environmental impacts of river restoration, this study proposed using a cradle-to-gate LCA (including material sourcing, transportation, and project construction) for two phases of a SHI project, which were completed in fall of 2015 and 2016, respectively.…”

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“…Also within the goal and scope phase of a LCA, a functional unit is used to define what is being studied and to define the inputs and outputs of the LCI and LCIA phases (ISO, 2006). For instance, the majority of the forestry studies reviewed use 1 m 3 of roundwood either including bark, or under the bark as the functional unit (Dias and Arroja, 2012;Cambria and Pierangeli, 2012;González-García et al, 2014a;Han et al, 2015). Other studies have different functional units, such as one green metric tonne of forest biomass (Handler et al, 2014), growing one hectare of willows (González-García et al, 2012), or producing 1 millijoule of heat from the combustion of willow chips (González-García et al, 2013b).…”

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“…Secondary information is typically compiled from published technical reports and other reputable data sets. A common data set used is the Ecoinvent database (Ecoinvent, 2016), this database contains unit process associated with harvesting equipment and has been used in a variety of timber harvest studies (Dias and Arroja, 2012;González-García et al, 2012, 2013a, 2014a. Other forestry studies incorporate data from previous studies and other published data sets and national publications (Cambria and Pierangeli, 2012;Han et al, 2015).…”

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Quantifying the Environmental Performance of a Stream Habitat Improvement Project

Morse¹

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River restoration projects are being installed worldwide to rehabilitate degraded river habitat. Many of these projects focus on stream habitat improvement (SHI), and an estimated 60%of the 37,000 projects listed in the National River Restoration Science Synthesis Program focus on SHI for salmon and trout species. These projects frequently lack a sufficient monitoring program or account for the environmental costs associated with SHI. The present study used life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques and topographic effectiveness monitoring to quantify environmental costs on the basis of geomorphic change. This methodology was a novel approach to assessing the cost-benefit relationship of SHI. To test this methodology, two phases of the Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project (LSCR) were used as a case study. The LSCR was a SHI project installed along the northern coast of Santa Cruz County, California, USA. A limited scope LCA was used to quantify the life cycle impacts of raw material production, materials transportation, and on-site construction. Once these baseline results were produced, a topographic monitoring program was used to quantify the topographic diversity index (TDI) in pre-and post-project conditions. The TDI percent change was used to scale the baseline LCA results, which quantified the environmental impacts based on geomorphic change. Phase II outperformed phase I. Phase I had greater cumulative environmental impacts and experienced a 7.7 % TDI increase from pre-to post-project conditions. Phase II had 43% less cumulative environmental impacts and experienced a 7.9% TDI increase from pre-to post-project conditions. The impacts in phase I were greater because of the amount of material excavated to create off-channel features, which were a key feature of the LSCR. A scenario analysis also was conducted within the LCA component of this study. The scenario analysis suggests that life cycle impacts could be reduced by 30%-65% by using the accelerated recruitment method in place of importing materials to build large wood complexes. The results of this study suggest that managers may improve the environmental performance of SHI projects by: (1) using the accelerated recruitment method to introduce larger key pieces to the channel, reducing the need to import materials; (2) using nursery grown plants as opposed to excavating plants for revegetation; (3) minimizing fuel combustion in heavy equipment and haul trucks by ensuring clear access to the channel and streambank, using small engine equipment to clear access corridors during site preparation, running more fuel-efficient machinery or bio-fuel powered machinery, and by attempting to minimize haul distances by sourcing materials locally; and (4) utilizing a "franken-log" design (a ballasted LWC configuration with a rootwad fastened to the downstream end of a log) in LWCs which led to favorable TDI change. This study concluded that LCA could be a valuable tool for monitoring SHI and river restoration projects and that further research ...

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Comparing environmental impacts of different forest management scenarios for maritime pine biomass production in France

Cited by 33 publications

References 20 publications

Comparative evaluation of lignocellulosic biorefinery scenarios under a life‐cycle assessment approach

Comparative evaluation of lignocellulosic biorefinery scenarios under a life‐cycle assessment approach

Investigating the Role of Integrity between Total Quality Management and Technology Management in Determining the Quality and Innovation Functions: A Study About Productive Companies in Kerman Province, South-East Iran

Quantifying the Environmental Performance of a Stream Habitat Improvement Project

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