Life cycle assessment of food waste home composting in Greece

Home composting is a waste prevention measure related to the management of the household's food waste, garden trimmings, and other smaller organic household waste streams. Thus, home composting is an alternative way of exploitation of the “biomass” generated from the households. It is an alternative to centralized composting. Biomass utilization is explicitly stated as a principle of green chemistry. The aim of this paper is presentation of the results of a case study dealing with the life cycle environmental assessment of home composting of food waste in households in Greece. The results of the study indicate that home composting is environmentally preferable over the current organic waste management situation in Greece.     

中国化石能源生命周期清单分析

利用生命周期评价方法,建立了我国化石能源的生命周期清单模型,详述了模型相关因子的确定方法,计算了原煤、原油、天然气等初级能源及汽油、焦炭等几类主要次级能源的生命周期清单,揭示了我国能源生产的环境负荷,为工业系统分析和材料、产品的生命周期评价提供基础数据.清单分析表明我国化石能源清单的主要特点为能源消耗的97%以上主要来自生产过程,运输占到3%左右的比例;通过与2002年清单相比,我国化石能源生产的总能耗和排放出现不同程度变化;通过与国外能源清单相比,我国能源投入及排放整体处于较高水平.     

黑河流域中下游全境地表-地下水耦合模型与应用

耦合概念性水资源评价与规划模型WEAP和分布式地下水模型MODFLOW,建立需求驱动的黑河流域中下游全境地表-地下水耦合模型,并利用地表水文站点和地下水观测点数据进行模型率定.结果表明,率定期和验证期地表水模拟的纳氏系数>0.7,地下水位模拟的均方根残差<0.80m.应用模型对流域历史水循环反演模拟表明,黑河干流(黑河东枝)2002~2012年水量统一调度使正义峡年均来流较原管理方式增加1.63亿m3(约18%);讨赖河(黑河西枝)因人类活动改变了西部子水系河流水文情势,基本切断了与黑河干流下游尾闾水系的水力联系;黑河东西两枝人类活动和出山口径流变化共同影响着下游狼心山断面径流量,直接导致了居延海之前消失和现在的恢复.     

锂离子电池正极材料环境友好性与充放电性能耦合优选

本文通过生命周期评价方法,设定在相同的外界容量需求下,结合电池循环性能数据,研究了LiCo1／3Ni1／3Mn1／3O2、LiCo1／3Ni1／3Mn1／3O2＋1％ Fe3O4和 LiMn0．2 Fe0．8 PO43种不同的锂离子正极材料的环境影响,并耦合环境影响和放电比容量进行量化处理,得到相应的性能优选指数。结果表明：锂离子电池的正极材料普遍具有较大的综合环境影响值,3大类环境影响分类中影响较大的是人体健康和资源消耗。在3种正极材料中,LiCo1／3Ni1／3Mn1／3O2的综合性能最好,环境友好性和充放电性能都具有较大的优选指数。在 LCA 处理正极材料的基础上,结合电池充放电数据实现了对材料的比较和优选。     

大气细颗粒物控制对我国城市居民期望寿命的影响

收集我国2013年74个环保重点城市的细颗粒物(PM2.5)浓度.采用《全球疾病负担2010》提供的PM2.5与4种主要疾病死亡率的暴露反应关系系数,构建74个城市的城区居民寿命表,评估PM2.5造成的期望寿命损失和不同PM2.5控制目标对居民期望寿命的影响.结果显示,2013年我国74个城市的PM2.5污染可使居民期望寿命减少1.48岁;如果PM2.5年均水平降低10%、25%,可分别使期望寿命增加0.05岁和0.15岁;若进一步降低,达到国二标准、国一标准和世界卫生组织的空气质量指导值水平,可使期望寿命分别增加0.42岁、1.04岁和1.26岁.本研究提示,大气PM2.5污染是决定我国城市居民期望寿命的重要因素,降低PM2.5浓度可显著增加居民的期望寿命.     

Comparative study on the efficiency and environmental impact of two methods of utilizing polyvinyl chloride waste based on life cycle assessments

Two processes of utilizing polyvinyl chloride （PVC） waste, an incineration process and a vacuum pyrolysis process, for energy conversion were compared to determine their efficiency and environmental perfor- mance. We carried out a life cycle assessment with each of the two processes to evaluate their environmental impact and defined the goals and limits of our remit. As well, we established an inventory of PVC waste from incineration and vacuum pyrolysis based on process analysis, data collection and calculations. The results show that electrical power output per unit mass of PVC waste in the incineration process was twice as high as that of the vacuum pyrolysis process. Incineration had a larger total environmental impact potential than vacuum pyrolysis. The total environmental impact potential of PVC waste from incineration was three times higher than that from vacuum pyrolysis. Incineration of PVC disposed 300 ng. 100 kgI of dioxins and vacuum pyrolysis 98.19 ng- 100 kgI of dioxins. As well, we analyzed the data for their uncertainty with results quantified in terms of three uncertainties： basic uncertainty, additional uncertainty, and computational uncertainty. The coefficients of variation of the data were less than 25% and the quality of the inventory data was acceptable with low uncertainty. Both PVC waste disposal processes were of similar quality and their results comparable. The results of our life cycle impact assessment （LCIA） showed considerable reliability of our methodology. Overall, the vacuum pyrolysis process has a number advantages and greater potential for development of PVC disposal than the incineration process.     

Optimization of HSE in maintenance activities by integration of continuous improvement cycle and fuzzy multivariate approach: A gas refinery

Gas refineries have been continuously focusing on Health, Safety and Environment programs to improve maintenance activities. Several researches have studied on this area with different analysis methods. This study presents an integrated approach for optimization of factors contributing to the implementation of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) in maintenance activities. HSE managers in each sector answered standard questionnaire whit respect to HES. The methodology is based on fuzzy data envelopment analysis (FDEA) and Deming's continuous improvement cycle. Also, this method is used to rank the relevant performance efficiencies in certain and uncertain conditions of each HSE sectors whit considering HSE in maintenance activities. It corresponds and integrates its registered HSE-MS with OHSAS 18001:2007 and ISO 14001:2004 to evaluate multiple inputs and outputs of over 36 subsidiary HSE divisions with parallel mission and objectives simultaneously. Also, it determines efficient target indices and could assure continuous improvement in the organization. This is the first study that introduces an integrated approach to improve HSE management programs in a gas refinery by a robust and continuous improvement approach.     

Simulation-based fault propagation analysis—Application on hydrogen production plant

Recently production of hydrogen from water through the Cu–Cl thermochemical cycle is developed as a new technology. The main advantages of this technology over existing ones are higher efficiency, lower costs, lower environmental impact and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Considering these advantages, the usage of this technology in new industries such as nuclear and oil is increasingly developed. Due to hazards involved in hydrogen production, design and implementation of hydrogen plants require provisions for safety, reliability and risk assessment. However, very little research is done from safety point of view. This paper introduces fault semantic network (FSN) as a novel method for fault diagnosis and fault propagation analysis by using evolutionary techniques like genetic programming (GP) and neural networks (NN), to uncover process variables’ interactions. The effectiveness, feasibility and robustness of the proposed method are demonstrated on simulated data obtained from the simulation of hydrogen production process in Aspen HYSYS^®. The proposed method has successfully achieved reasonable detection and prediction of non-linear interaction patterns among process variables.     

半刚性路面基层环境影响评价研究

采用输人输出模型,通过清单分析和归一化处理对我国典型的路面基层材料水泥稳定粒料与石灰稳定粒料以及几种工业固体废弃物路面基层材料的环境影响进行了研究并和水泥混凝土进行了对比.结果表明,工业固体废弃物路面基层对资源能源消耗量少,生产过程中固体废弃物、温室气体、酸雨气体的排放量小.和我国目前广泛使用的水泥稳定粒料相比,其环境影响较小,而且可以被再循环用作水泥生产的混合材,是一类典型的生态建筑材料.     

基于潜在生命损失的危险化学品仓储区规划选址和安全布局方法研究

在现有基于风险的土地使用安全规划方法的基础上,通过引入潜在生命损失这一综合风险评价指标,建立了基于移动危险源潜在生命损失的危险化学品仓储区规划选址模型和基于固定危险源潜在生命损失的仓储区安全布局优化模型。在此基础上,提出了危险化学品仓储区规划选址和安全布局优化方法,并通过案例分析验证了该方法的适用性和可行性。采用该规划选址和安全布局优化方法可提高区域土地使用安全规划的效率,为进行城市重大危险源的规划选址和安全布局提供了新的思路。