Critical review on life cycle assessment of conventional and innovative waste-to-energy technologies

F Mayer, R Bhandari, S Gäth - Science of the total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study 315 peer-reviewed studies on environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) of
waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies were critically analysed. The technologies considered …

Developments in life cycle assessment applied to evaluate the environmental performance of construction and demolition wastes

MD Bovea, JC Powell - Waste management, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review of the literature that applies the life cycle assessment (LCA)
methodology to the assessment of the environmental performance of the life cycle of …

Heavy metals in leachate, impacted soils and natural soils of different landfills in Malaysia: An alarming threat

M Hussein, K Yoneda, Z Mohd-Zaki, A Amir… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Landfills are a potential threat to human health and the environment, especially from the
detrimental and toxic heavy metals. This study focuses on the assessment of heavy metals …

The fate of heavy metals during combustion and gasification of contaminated biomass—a brief review

A Nzihou, B Stanmore - Journal of hazardous materials, 2013 - Elsevier
The literature on the presence of heavy metals in contaminated wastes is reviewed. Various
categories of materials produced from domestic and industrial activities are included, but …

An LCA-based model for assessing prevention versus non-prevention of construction waste in buildings

C Llatas, N Bizcocho, B Soust-Verdaguer, MV Montes… - Waste Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Waste generated by the Construction Sector represents an environmental problem in many
countries. To achieve increasingly eco-efficient waste management, Life Cycle Assessment …

Life-cycle energy and emission analysis of power generation from forest biomass

A Thakur, CE Canter, A Kumar - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Forest harvest residues, which include limbs, branches, and tree tops, have the potential to
generate energy. This paper uses a life-cycle assessment to determine the energy input-to …

Identification and quantification of Cr, Cu, and As incidental nanomaterials derived from CCA-treated wood in wildland-urban interface fire ashes

M Alam, T Alshehri, J Wang, SA Singerling… - Journal of hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
In addition to the combustion of vegetation, fires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) burn
structural materials, including chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood. This study …

Application of the US decision support tool for materials and waste management

SA Thorneloe, K Weitz, J Jambeck - Waste Management, 2007 - Elsevier
The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) launched the Resource Conservation
Challenge (RCC) in 2002 to help reduce waste and move towards more sustainable …

Batch and continuous flow studies of Cr (VI) adsorption from synthetic and real wastewater by magnetic pine cone composite

A Pholosi, EB Naidoo, AE Ofomaja - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Magnetic pinecone (MNP-PCP) was synthesised via co-precipitation of Fe 2+/Fe 3+ onto
different masses of pine to determine effect of magnetite to pine cone ratio on the Cr (VI) …

Waste wood as bioenergy feedstock. Climate change impacts and related emission uncertainties from waste wood based energy systems in the UK

M Röder, P Thornley - Waste Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Considering the urgent need to shift to low carbon energy carriers, waste wood resources
could provide an alternative energy feedstock and at the same time reduce emissions from …