Dewulf / Van Langenhove Renewables-Based Technology

Sustainability Assessment
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-02243-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Renewable Resources

Sustainability is a key driving force for industries in thechemical, food, packaging, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors,and quantitative sustainability indicators are being incorporatedinto company reports. This is driving the uptake of renewableresources and the adoption of renewables.
Renewables' can either be the substituted raw materials that areused in a given industry, (e.g. the use of biomass for fuel); theuse and/or modification of a crop for use in a new industry (e.g.plant cellulose), or the reuse of a waste product (e.g. organicwaste for energy production).
This is the first book in the Wiley Renewable Resourcesseries that brings together the range of sustainability assessmentmethods and their uses. Ensuing books in the series will look atindividual renewable materials and applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dewulf, Jo

Van Langenhove, Herman

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Foreword.
Series Preface.
Preface.
List of Abbreviations.
Part I: Renewables as a Resource and SustainabilityPerformance Indicators.
1 The Contribution of Renewables to Society(Göran Berndes).
2 The Potential of Renewables as a Feedstock for Chemistryand Energy (Wilfried G. J. H. M. van Sark, Martin K. Patel,André P. C. Faaij and Monique M. Hoogwijk).
3 Sustainability Performance Indicators (AlexeiLapkin).
Part II: Relevant Assessment Tools.
4 Life Cycle Inventory Analysis Applied to RenewableResources (Niels Jungbluth and Rolf Frischknecht).
5 Net Energy Balancing and Fuel-Cycle Analysis (HoseinShapouri, Michael Wang and James A. Duffield).
6 Life Cycle Assessment as an Environmental SustainabilityTool (Adisa Azapagic).
7 Exergy (Jo Dewulf and Herman VanLangenhove).
8 Material Flow Analysis and the Use of Renewables from aSystems Perspective (Stefan Bringezu).
9 Ecological Footprints and Biocapacity: Essential Elementsin Sustainability Assessment (William E. Rees).
10 The Sustainable Process Index (SPI) (MichaelNarodoslawsky and Anneliese Niederl).
Part III:Case Studies.
11 Assessment of Sustainable Land Use in ProducingBiomass (Helmut Haberl and Karl-Heinz Erb).
12 Assessment of the Forest Products Industries (KlausRichter, Frank Werner and Hans-Jörg Althaus).
13 Assessment of the Energy Production Industry: ModernOptions for Producing Secondary Energy Carriers from Biomass(André Faaij).
14 Assessment of Biofuels (James A. Duffield, HoseinShapouri and Michael Wang).
15 Assessment of Organic Waste Treatment (Jan-OlovSundqvist).
16 Oleochemical and Petrochemical Surfactants: An OverallAssessment (Erwan Saouter, Gert Van Hoof, Mark Stalmans andAlan Brunskill).
17 Assessment of Bio-Based Packaging Materials(Andreas Detzel, Martina Krüger and AxelOstermayer).
18 Assessment of Biotechnology-Based Chemicals (PeterSaling and Andreas Kicherer).
19 Assessment of Bio-Based Pharmaceuticals: The CephalexinCase (Alle Bruggink and Peter Nossin).
Part IV:Conclusions.
20 Conclusions (Jo Dewulf and Herman VanLangenhove).
Index.