Synthesis and Assessment of Waste-to-resource Routes for Circular Economy

López, Adrian Pacheco; Tornos, Ana Somoza; Muñoz, Edrisi; Garcia, Elisabeth Capon; Sobré, Moisès Graells; Camarasa, Antonio Espuña

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-823377-1.50323-2

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“…Although the body of literature on Circular Economy has been growing since Brundtland report (1987) and since 2010's (Calisto Friant et al, 2020) increases exponentially, the use of ontologies is rarely included into the discourse. While a SCOPUS search of the term "Circular Economy" returns 9195 1 results, only 28 of them mention the word "ontology" in the title, keywords or abstract and only 11 of them do actually focus on describing, developing or evaluating ontologies (Capelleveen et al, 2021;Pacheco-López et al, 2020;Mboli et al, 2020;Fernández-Acero et al, 2019;Gligoric et al, 2019;Sauter et al, 2018;Martín Gómez et al, 2018;Sauter and Witjes, 2017;Pauliuk et al, 2016;Vasantha et al, 2015;Olivier et al, 2015). Table 1 shows an overview of the domains and purposes of those 11 ontologies.…”

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A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory

Šileryté

Wandl

Timmeren

2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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Conflict of Interest Statement: Rusne Sileryte is a co-founder and a major shareholder of geoFluxus BV., a spin-off company from the Delft University of Technology that is currently working with multiple urban regions in the Netherlands to build a Circular Economy Monitor that is discussed in the submitted article. Alexander Wandl and Arjan van Timmeren declare no competing financial interests or personal relationships. Data Availability Statement:The data that support the findings of this study are available from the CTO office of the Municipality of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are not available from the authors and can only be accessed directly from the Municipality of Amsterdam.

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A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory

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Wandl

Timmeren

2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…The authors concluded that recovering chemicals (specifically ethylene from polyethylene) from plastic waste offers an economic incentive and a positive environmental impact by avoiding the burden of direct incineration and especially dealing with landfill, which stands as the least preferable option where all the plastic value is lost in a non-degradable graveyard. Additionally, they applied similar methods to select the best alternatives from plastic waste upcycling into chemicals in recent contributions (Pacheco-López et al, 2020;Somoza-Tornos et al, 2021).…”

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Economic and Environmental Assessment of Plastic Waste Pyrolysis Products and Biofuels as Substitutes for Fossil-Based Fuels

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The global economy is shifting toward more sustainable sources of energy. The transportation sector is a remarkable example of this fact, where biofuels have emerged as promising alternatives to traditional fossil fuels. This work presents a techno-economic and environmental assessment of existing liquid fuels in hard-to-decarbonize sectors and their emerging renewable substitutes. The comparison focuses on fossil-based, biomass-derived, and plastic waste-sourced fuel alternatives that can be used in spark-ignition (gasoline) and compression-ignition (diesel) engines. Results for diesel substitutes prove the superior performance of plastic waste pyrolysis oil in terms of production cost reduction (−25% compared to diesel) and “well-to-tank” life cycle impact reduction (−54% human health, −40% ecosystems, −98% resources). Consequently, research and development toward the conversion of plastic waste into fuels should be extended to make the technology more accessible and robust in terms of fuel quality. On the contrary, the results for gasoline alternatives are not as conclusive: bioethanol and ethanol from plastic pyrolysis have a considerably lower impact on resource scarcity than gasoline (−80% and −35% respectively) and higher on the other two life cycle endpoint categories, but they have higher production costs compared to gasoline (+57% and +130% respectively). While blends of gasoline with pyrolysis-sourced ethanol can reduce the impact on human health and ecosystems, blends with bioethanol have a lower impact on resource scarcity and increase economic profitability. This allows fuel providers to offer tradeoff solutions in the form of blends based on their priorities.

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“…They present an IRE system that retrieves, classifies and extracts papers related to metagenomics marine science from the PubMed database. This work is motivated by the waste-to-resource route assessment work presented by (Pacheco-López et al, 2020). The authors compare the potential of transformation routes of plastic waste to valuable raw materials.…”

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Towards Automated Information Retrieval of Process Data and Knowledge from Academic Databases

Lechtenberg

Farreres

Somoza-Tornos

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31st European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

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Synthesis and Assessment of Waste-to-resource Routes for Circular Economy

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory

A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory

Economic and Environmental Assessment of Plastic Waste Pyrolysis Products and Biofuels as Substitutes for Fossil-Based Fuels

Towards Automated Information Retrieval of Process Data and Knowledge from Academic Databases

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