Browsing by Subject "life cycle assessment"
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CONCEPTUALIZING AND QUANTIFYING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
(2014-04-01)Increasing the amount of food produced while simultaneously reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. A promising approach through which this could be achieved ... -
A Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-economic Analysis of a Corn Ethanol Bio-Refinery in Comparison to a Novel Bio-refinery
(2020-12-22)A life cycle assessment and economic analysis of a dry-mill corn-ethanol facility was completed and compared to a novel bio-refinery. The novel facility is able to avoid additional energy intensive treatment through anaerobic ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Organic Canadian Prairie Field Crop Systems: Oats, Rye, and Wheat
(2022-12-15)Organic farming is a rapidly growing agricultural sub-sector in Canada that many look to as a means to lower resource use and environmental impacts of food systems. In this thesis, life cycle assessment (LCA) is coupled ... -
A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Risk Assessment Model for Carbon Capture and Storage
(2012-12-14)Currently several disparate and incomplete approaches are being used to analyse and make decisions on the complex methodology of carbon capture and storage (CCS). A literature review revealed that, as CCS is a new and ... -
Towards Sustainable Practices in Pharmaceutical Research and Development: A Life Cycle Approach
(2024-04-05)This project is an environmental impact and cost analysis of commonly used crystallization processes for isolating and purifying active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) at Solid State Pharma Inc., a pharmaceutical research ... -
WHAT’S AT STEAK? ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ETHICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
(2010-05-14)Achieving environmental s¬ustainability in human organization is the defining challenge of the modern era. In light of the inability of the existing economic paradigm to provide for sustainability objectives, novel approaches ...
