Methodology of supporting decision-making of waste management with material flow analysis (MFA) and consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA): case study of waste paper recycling

Sevigné‐Itoiz, Eva; Gasol, Carles M.; Rieradevall, Joan; Gabarrell, Xavier

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.07.026

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“…The choice of attributional or consequential LCA has been extensively discussed to address multifunctional processes such as recovered energy and commodities from waste management, which is still a source of controversy in LCA leading to different results (Brander, 2017;Finnveden et al, 2009;Laurent et al, 2014). Recent advances in LCA also attempt to incorporate hybrid models such as input-output analysis (IOA) (Rocco et al, 2017;Tisserant et al, 2017), material flow analysis (MFA) (Sevign e-Itoiz et al, 2015;Turner et al, 2016) to deal with complex waste management systems.…”

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Comparison of waste-to-energy technologies of gasification and incineration using life cycle assessment: Case studies in Finland, France and China

Dong

Tang

Nzihou

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Waste-to-Energy (WtE) has gradually constituted one of the most important options to achieve energy recovery from municipal solid waste (MSW). However, the environmental sustainability of a specific WtE system varies with used technologies and geographic differences. As a result, three representative WtE systems are compared using life cycle assessment (LCA): a gasification-based WtE plant in Finland, mechanical-grate incineration in France, and circulating fluidized bed incineration in China. Results show that the overall environmental performance of the gasification system is better than incineration. The use of gasification technology, attributed to an intermediate syngas purification step, can provide benefits of both reducing the stack emissions and increasing the energy efficiency. Regional waste management, especially related to MSW caloric value and emission regulation, are determining factors for a preferable performance of the incineration in France over that in China. Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses further address key variations such as choice of MSW composition, basis of displaced electricity, energy recovery mode, and application of "best-available technology" dedicated to incineration. It is found that the most sensitive parameters influencing the LCA results are: electricity recovery, CO 2 emission, and NO x emission. In the future, use of the source-separated high caloric waste combined with a more stringent emission standard can efficiently improve MSW incineration in China. Bottom ash recycling for metals and materials is highly applicable regarding incineration in France. This presented study can overall contribute to the development of specific WtE technology and local waste management plan for decision-makers.

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Comparison of waste-to-energy technologies of gasification and incineration using life cycle assessment: Case studies in Finland, France and China

Dong

Tang

Nzihou

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The goal of a factory is to add value efficiently with the least amount of waste in terms of time, material, money, space, and labour as well as shortening the length of material flows. To increase factory productivity and sustainability, these processes and operations must be appropriately selected and arranged to allow a smooth and controlled flow of material through the factory [10,11]. The more efficiently the materials can be produced and converted to the desired products, which operate at the required quality, the more improved the productivity of the factories will be; as a result, the living standard of the employees also will improve.…”

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Concept of Long-Term Sustainable Intralogistics in Plastic Recycling Factory

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This paper focuses on the sustainability of material flow and intralogistics in factories, two of the primary keys to productivity. In the past ten years, there has been significant interest in the sustainability of intralogistics to increase productivity. The aim of this article is to investigate the consequences of combining two factories into one, followed by the design of new material flows and intralogistics from a long-term perspective and with respect to sustainability. Therefore, this paper outlines sustainability variants of new material flow solutions in factories. Our methods and approaches were chosen because they represent one of the most rapid ways to rationalise material flows and intralogistics in factories to sustain this concept. In comparison with other projects that eliminate problems in the short term, we have focused on the overall long-term and sustainable concept of intralogistics and material flows over the next 10 to 15 years. Our approach has the potential to increase productivity intralogistics and its long-term sustainability. The proposed variants were verified and evaluated using visTable®touch software (v.2.7, plavis GmbH, Chemnitz, Germany). On the basis of these results, the rational variant of material flows was chosen for the factory. This variant has the highest overall improvement of 25%, even after the implementation of factory two into factory one.

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“…), agriculture (Taulo and Sebitosi ), waste management (Sevigné‐Itoiz et al. ; Bergeron ), CO 2 emissions (Chen et al. ; Gsodam et al.…”

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Material Flow and Spatial Data Analysis of the Petroleum Use to Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Emissions in Northeast China

Liu

Jia

et al. 2018

J of Industrial Ecology

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This study investigated the petroleum consumption and petroleum-related CO 2 emissions (PCOEs) in Northeast China at city level using material flow analysis (MFA) and spatial data analysis (SDA). The petroleum flows for the year 2014 were plotted, and then the spatial patterns, weighted mean centers (WMCs), and spatial autocorrelations of petroleum consumption and PCOEs were calculated, respectively. It was found that Northeast China is a petroleum exploitation-processing-export region in China; the total input of petroleum flows comprised two parts-exploitation (about 60%) and import (about 40%). About one third of the total product oil supply flowed into other provinces. In the consumption process, the product oil was dominated by two sectors: the industry sector (45.5%) and the transportation sector (31%). The rate of PCOEs was 36.69 million tonnes in the waste discharge process. Meanwhile, the WMCs of the petroleum consumption and the PCOEs were located in the south of Northeast China. The location of the petroleum pipelines was the factor shown to determine the spatial patterns of petroleum consumption and PCOEs and the hotspots were distributed along the petroleum pipeline, especially in the Circum-Bohai Sea regions. Economic development in these regions shows a positive dependence on petroleum consumption and generates larger PCOEs. The findings obtained in this study could provide important decision-making support to low-carbon development in Northeast China. Keywords:CO 2 emissions energy consumption material flow analysis (MFA) Northeast China petroleum flows spatial data analysis Supporting information is linked to this article on the JIE website

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Methodology of supporting decision-making of waste management with material flow analysis (MFA) and consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA): case study of waste paper recycling

Cited by 67 publications

References 26 publications

Comparison of waste-to-energy technologies of gasification and incineration using life cycle assessment: Case studies in Finland, France and China

Comparison of waste-to-energy technologies of gasification and incineration using life cycle assessment: Case studies in Finland, France and China

Concept of Long-Term Sustainable Intralogistics in Plastic Recycling Factory

Material Flow and Spatial Data Analysis of the Petroleum Use to Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Emissions in Northeast China

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Methodology of supporting decision-making of waste management with material flow analysis (MFA) and consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA): case study of waste paper recycling

Cited by 67 publications

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Comparison of waste-to-energy technologies of gasification and incineration using life cycle assessment: Case studies in Finland, France and China

Comparison of waste-to-energy technologies of gasification and incineration using life cycle assessment: Case studies in Finland, France and China

Concept of Long-Term Sustainable Intralogistics in Plastic Recycling Factory

Material Flow and Spatial Data Analysis of the Petroleum Use to Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions in Northeast China

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