Expansion of environmental impact assessment for eco-efficiency evaluation of biocomposites for industrial application

Korol, Jerzy; Burchart-Korol, Dorota; Pichlak, Magdalena

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.11.101

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“…Picazo-Tadeo et al [15] argued that ecological efficiency refers to the reduction of environmental impacts and the consumption of fewer natural resources by enterprises, industries, or economies while producing goods and services. Ecological efficiency is also regarded as sustainability related to the environmental performance of a production system [16]. Generally speaking, ecological efficiency refers to obtaining more economic output with less ecological input [17,18].…”

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Sustainability Governance in China: An Analysis of Regional Ecological Efficiency

Sun

Loh

2019

Sustainability

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The Chinese government is committed to sustainability governance to alleviate the shortage of energy and the imbalance between ecological environment and economic development. This paper evaluates and analyzes the sustainability governance performance of China. A bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) is proposed to evaluate sustainability governance performance of 30 provinces based on ecological efficiency in China from 1998 to 2015. The results indicate that the ecological efficiency of China significantly improved as a whole, which is related to the decline in sulfur dioxide emissions. Among these provinces, Jiangsu, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia exhibited the highest values, while Gansu, Chongqing, and Sichuan had the lowest values. The 30 provinces were divided into four sub-areas. The average ecological efficiency of the eastern area was the highest, followed by the northeast area. Compared to the east area, northeast area, and central area, we find that west area obviously falls behind. As such, the results provide helpful guidance to improve ecological governance performance.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Sustainability Governance in China: An Analysis of Regional Ecological Efficiency

Sun

Loh

2019

Sustainability

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“…low density, high stiffness, corrosion resistance, low hazard, renewable characteristics and biodegradability (Gurunathan et al 2015;Mohammed et al 2015;Sobczak et al 2013). Above mentioned factors account for commonly usage of WPCs as building and automobile products and as environmental friendly alternative for pure polymers (Korol et al 2015b;Teuber et al 2016).…”

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Processing and structure–property relationships of natural rubber/wheat bran biocomposites

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In this work, wheat bran was used as cellulosic filler in biocomposites based on natural rubber. The impact of wheat bran content [ranging from 10 to 50 parts per hundred rubber (phr)] on processing, structure, dynamic mechanical properties, thermal properties, physico-mechanical properties and morphology of resulting biocomposites was investigated. For better characterization of interfacial interactions between natural rubber and wheat bran, achieved results were compared with properties of biocomposites filled with commercially available cellulosic fillers-wood flour and microcellulose. It was observed that wheat bran, unlike commercial cellulosic fillers, contains high amount of proteins, which act like plasticizers having profitable impact on processing, physical, thermo-mechanical and morphological properties of biocomposites. This is due to better dispersion and distribution of wheat bran particles in natural rubber, which results in reduction of stiffness and porosity of the biocomposites. Regardless of cellulosic filler type, Wolff activity coefficient was positive for all studied biocomposites implying reinforcing effect of the applied fillers, while tensile strength and elongation at break decreased with increasing filler content. This phenomenon is related to restricted strain-induced crystallization of NR matrix due to limited mobility of polymer chains in the biocomposites. Furthermore, this explains negligible impact of particle size distribution, chemical composition and crystallinity degree of applied cellulosic filler on static mechanical properties of highlyfilled NR biocomposites. The conducted investigations show that wheat bran presents interesting alternative for commercially available cellulosic fillers and could be successfully applied as a low-cost filler in polymer composites.

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“…4, a site with an appropriate area (83 hectares) having a relatively high degree of suitability has been suggested for the establishment of a large extractive industrial unit in Iran. It is evident that after decision-making process based on the results raised from this study, it would be necessary to carry out specific local environmental studies such as environmental impact assessment to establish an ecofriendly industry, which can ensure the economic benefits in a long-time life cycle [31], [32]. Sustainable designs are also required to control the pollutants released to the environment to ensure that the industry is developed completely eco-friendly [33], [34].…”

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Delphi-AHP and Weighted Index Overlay-GIS Approaches for Industrial Site Selection. Case Study: Large Extractive Industrial Units in Iran

Kamali¹,

Alesheikh²,

Alavi-Borazjani³

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Expansion of environmental impact assessment for eco-efficiency evaluation of biocomposites for industrial application

Cited by 54 publications

References 31 publications

Sustainability Governance in China: An Analysis of Regional Ecological Efficiency

Sustainability Governance in China: An Analysis of Regional Ecological Efficiency

Processing and structure–property relationships of natural rubber/wheat bran biocomposites

Delphi-AHP and Weighted Index Overlay-GIS Approaches for Industrial Site Selection. Case Study: Large Extractive Industrial Units in Iran

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