Environmental impact assessment of biomass process chains at early design stages using decision trees

Karka, Paraskevi; Papadokonstantakis, Stavros; Kokossis, Antonis

doi:10.1007/s11367-019-01591-0

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“…The impact of a new chemical is then predicted using the average of the cluster (61). Similarly, decision trees have been used to classify the expected LCIA results into low, medium, and high environmental impact (62). This approach is based on if-then rules, which use a set of critical parameters of the process chain, e.g., the molecular structure of the product and process-chain-related variables corresponding to chemistry, complexity, and generic process conditions.…”

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Life Cycle Assessment for the Design of Chemical Processes, Products, and Supply Chains

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Fleitmann

Bachmann

et al. 2020

Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng.

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Design in the chemical industry increasingly aims not only at economic but also at environmental targets. Environmental targets are usually best quantified using the standardized, holistic method of life cycle assessment (LCA). The resulting life cycle perspective poses a major challenge to chemical engineering design because the design scope is expanded to include process, product, and supply chain. Here, we first provide a brief tutorial highlighting key elements of LCA. Methods to fill data gaps in LCA are discussed, as capturing the full life cycle is data intensive. On this basis, we review recent methods for integrating LCA into the design of chemical processes, products, and supply chains. Whereas adding LCA as a posteriori tool for decision support can be regarded as established, the integration of LCA into the design process is an active field of research. We present recent advances and derive future challenges for LCA-based design. 203 Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng. 2020.11:203-233. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by 44.224.250.200 on 07/08/20. For personal use only.

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Section: Data Sources For Background Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Assessment for the Design of Chemical Processes, Products, and Supply Chains

Kleinekorte

Fleitmann

Bachmann

et al. 2020

Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng.

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“…Ideally, a detailed analysis of social and environmental impacts in an (S-)LCA should be performed to evaluate reaction routes, yet, early-stage reaction data is at present not sufficient for such scopes of analysis. Sustainability assessment is ideally performed early on, as it allows for cheaper and faster implementations of process improvements [167][168][169] and for designing inherently sustainable pathways. 12 However, detailed process knowledge is often only available at the end of the process development pipeline.…”

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“…170,171 Streamlining methods to estimate LCA impacts of molecules in early stages try to circumvent this problem. 169,170,[172][173][174][175] Yet, only a few take differences in process conditions into account 167,168,176 and the possibility of completely different reaction routes within the reaction network are not discussed at present. The literature on reaction network optimisation has employed various metrics -much simpler than a full LCAto assess the sustainability of reaction routes.…”

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Chemical data intelligence for sustainable chemistry

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“…Sustainable process designs include various concepts to achieve sustainable solutions; examples are cleaner production [66], zero waste processes [67], zero carbon emission technologies [68], LCA environmental impact assessment in early design phases [69], eco-efficiency indicators [70], etc. Recently, the concept of circular economy has become particularly popular and sometimes even overcomes the term sustainable development, although the terms are by no means equivalent [71].…”

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Process Deasign and Sustainable Development

Glavič¹,

Pintarič²,

Bogataj³

2020

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This review paper describes some historical facts, the state of the art of process design and sustainable development. In the Introduction the most important global megatrends are presented and the European Union response to them, the European Green Deal. Process design and sustainable development are dealt with separately and holistically. Organization of professionals from the area, their conferences and publication are supporting the two topics. A short analysis of the published documents in two most popular databases shows that environmental dimension is prevailing, followed by economic one while social pillar of sustainable development is undervalued. The most important design tools for sustainability are described. An important practical case, the European chemical and process industries are analyzed and their achievements in sustainable development are shown; in particular their strategies are presented in more detail. The conclusions are embracing the most urgent future development areas of process industries, carbon capture with utilization or storage, the process analysis, simulation, synthesis and optimization tools; zero waste, circular economy and resource efficiency are already playing an important role. But deeper changes are needed in the future decades including de-growth with changes of habits, lifestyles, and business models. Lifelong education for sustainable development will play a very important role in the growth of democracy and happiness instead of the consumerism and neoliberalism.

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Environmental impact assessment of biomass process chains at early design stages using decision trees

Cited by 19 publications

References 48 publications

Life Cycle Assessment for the Design of Chemical Processes, Products, and Supply Chains

Life Cycle Assessment for the Design of Chemical Processes, Products, and Supply Chains

Chemical data intelligence for sustainable chemistry

Process Deasign and Sustainable Development

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