Multi-criteria analysis as a tool for sustainability assessment of a waste management model

Milutinović, Biljana; Stefanović, Gordana; Dassisti, Michele; Marković, Danijel; Vučković, Goran

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2014.05.056

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“…In solid waste management applications, incineration is another important process providing significant volume reduction [18,19]. MSW is regarded as a promising fuel in European countries with the heating capacity from 7.2 to 14.9 GJ/t [20]. In Denmark, 5% of total electricity and 20% of the total district heating was supplied from incineration in 2011 [21].…”

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Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

Özbay¹

2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

Özbay¹

2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…The term ΦS is the sum of solar radiation in the vertical plane to the south (best exposure to optimize solar gains during the year) in the period of heating and cooling (UNI 10349). The degree days for the municipality of Matera extracted from the DPR 412/93 are reported in Annex A [13].…”

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“…LCA has been used as a tool to estimate the environmental impacts of window frames recycling following the ISO 14040/44 methodology ( [13], [14]). According to this standard approach, there are four linked components of LCA: 1) goal definition and scoping: identifying the LCA's purpose and the expected products of the study, and determining the boundaries and assumptions based upon the goal definition; 2) life-cycle inventory: quantifying the energy and raw material inputs and environmental releases associated with each stage of production; 3) impact analysis: assessing the impacts on human health and the environment associated with energy and raw material inputs and environmental releases quantified by the inventory; 4) improvement analysis: evaluating opportunities to reduce energy, material inputs, or environmental impacts at each stage of the product life-cycle.…”

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Life cycle assessment of italian residential windows: sensitivity of analysis

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Cardinale³

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Product Sustainability assessment is becoming ever more critical in the global competition; this is particularly true for building sector. This paper faces the problem of the analysis of sensitivity of this task by referring to a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) case of a PVC window for civil buildings applications. Sensitivity has been appreciated by referring to two functional units to evaluate the quality of the environmental impacts by relating it to the window features: per piece and per square meter of see-through surface. It resulted that the sustainability impact calculated per square meter changes considerably with the change of the type of window. This sensitivity analysis leads to propose a new criterion of the analysis to provide a reliable assessment approach to be used for the evaluation of the environmental performance of products. The difference between the values of thermal transmittance measured and calculated is inferior to 5%, which it is an absolutely optimal value.

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“…In order to consider additional environmental issues in energy system planning (for instance by incorporating the LCA approach in the optimization procedure, as in [15,16] ) several authors [17][18][19] propose the monetization procedure, consisting in incorporating in energy prices the so called external costs.…”

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Internalizing the external costs of biogas supply chains in the Italian energy sector

Patrizio

Leduc

Kraxner

2017

Energy

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OriginalInternalizing the external costs of biogas supply chains in the Italian energy sector In Italy biogas support schemes are being revised to allocate subsidies also to the production of biomethane. Energy policies should foster environmentally optimal solutions, especially because social acceptance issues often arise in the case of biogas. In this paper the external cost methodology is adopted to quantify the environmental impact of airborne emissions associated with biogas based energy vectors and their corresponding fossil alternatives. These are evaluated at supply chain level and incorporated in a spatially explicit optimization model. The study is applied to Northern Italy to compare the potential impact of alternative policy options. It is found that, while external costs of biogas based pathways are always lower than corresponding fossil fuel based pathways, differences are generally so small that policies based on internalization of external costs alone would not lead to further development of biogas based technologies. For all utilization pathways consideration of local externalities leads to a less favourable evaluation of biogas based technologies, which even results in external costs higher than fossil natural gas if biogas is allocated to local heating.

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Multi-criteria analysis as a tool for sustainability assessment of a waste management model

Cited by 94 publications

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Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

Life cycle assessment of italian residential windows: sensitivity of analysis

Internalizing the external costs of biogas supply chains in the Italian energy sector

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