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Life cycle assessment of coated white board: a case study in China |
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| Authors: | Zhaojie CuiHou yannan Jinglan Hong Zainab Z Ismail |
| Institution: | a Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, PR China b Shandong University Climate Change and Health Center, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China c Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Abstract: | Life cycle assessment was carried out using IMPACT2002+ to estimate the environmental impact of coated white board production, which is common in China. Normalized results showed that the potential impacts of respiratory inorganics, terrestrial ecotoxicity, global warming, and non-renewable energy had a dominant contributions to overall environmental impact. Specifically, emissions from chemical and energy production processes exhibited higher potential impact (more than 80% of the total contribution) on the environment than that of emissions generated from transport, landfill, wastewater treatment, and paper plants infrastructure. Energy recovery from black liquor and energy generation based on natural gas are key factors in reducing overall environmental potential impact. The current paper presents improvements on the environmental performance of a coated white board production site in China. |
| Keywords: | Life cycle assessment Coated white board Environmental impact Energy Uncertainty propagation |
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