life cycle carbon emissions
Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools
... embodied carbon counting tools which are relevant to the on-going debate about carbon reduction and the need for standardised embodied carbon accounting, particularly in energy efficient new ...
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Estimation of Building’s Life Cycle Carbon Emissions Based on Life Cycle Assessment and Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of a Hospital Building in China
... actual carbon footprint with ma- terial and thickness decisions made through “BIM-enabled embodied impact feedback and ...the life cycle cost of BIM-based ener- gy consumption ...for life ...
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Life cycle inventory energy consumption and emissions for biodiesel versus petroleum diesel fueled construction vehicles
... Life cycle inventories (LCI) are used to compare fuels, taking into account energy consumption and emissions for fuel production and ...Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation” ...
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A Scan Level Cotton Carbon Life Cycle Assessment: Has Bio-Tech Reduced the Carbon Emissions from Cotton Production in the USA?
... GHG emissions from cotton production, there is a void in the literature on what the effect of the adoption of advanced seed technology has had on total GHG emissions per hectare and GHG emissions per ...
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Green and clean: reviewing the justification of claims for nanomaterials from a sustainability point of view
... on carbon emissions and energy use, we have reviewed 18 life cycle assessment studies on nanomaterials in the solar, energy, polymer, medical and food ...carbon emissions. ...
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Feasibility Check for Carbon Emissions Estimation Method of G-TIES
... estimating carbon emissions-road facilities [1]” as a solution to quantitatively calculate and control carbon amount emitted across the life cycle of social infrastructure ...of ...
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Experiences and issues for environmental science sensor network deployments
... global carbon emissions[19], is one example where de- ployment of sensors, to measure all direct and indirect sources of carbon emissions, is fundamental to the decision-making and ...full ...
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The life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of rendered products
... inputs and outputs of the system should be divided according to the physical relationships in which inputs and outputs change according to changes in their functions, 3) If no physical relations can be defined, other ...
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Uncertainty analysis of the environmental sustainability of biofuels
... presents life cycle assessment (LCA) results for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (carbon footprints) and water consumption (water scarcity footprint) for different first-generation biofuels in ...
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Life Cycle Analysis of Recycling Facilities in a Carbon Constrained World.
... matrix. Emissions factors (kg emitted / L combusted) for industrial equipment and trucking combustion drawn from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Life Cycle Inventory Database (NREL, ...
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Energy and Emission Reduction Potential for Bank ATM Units in India
... India. Life cycle savings and pay- back periods for various insulation materials are also ...and emissions reduction potential due to these two interventions have been estimated on the national ...
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The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations
... dioxide emissions are derived from sector-based emissions. Emissions for all sectors are injected at the surface, except for energy emissions and half of industrial emissions which are ...
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Examining the factors that impact upon mode choice for frequent short trips
... The emissions for driving had a coefficient with a value of ...in emissions would signal a decrease in the utility of ...(weather, emissions) do not manage to explain the decision to choose to drive ...
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FAIR v1.3: a simple emissions-based impulse response and carbon cycle model
... aerosol emissions time series are provided by integrated as- sessment modelling groups based on socio-economic narra- tives (Moss et ...in emissions mode, where emissions of carbon dioxide are ...
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Assessment and Reduction of Embodied Carbon in Buildings
... Emissions due to a depreciation in the embodied carbon value of the machinery used to process materials The emission due the carbon compounds in raw materials and its extraction can be estimated ...
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Metabolism-modelling approaches to long-term sustainability assessment of urban water services
... water cycle services (UWCS) is met when the quality of assets and governance of the systems is sufficient to actively secure the water sector’s necessary contributions to social, environmental and economic ...
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Greenhouse gas implications of novel and conventional rice production technologies in the Eastern-Gangetic plains
... Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions produced per season for one tonne of rice 3. production as influenced by crop establishment techniques and residue retention[r] ...
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A method to finance a global climate fund with a harmonized carbon tax
... of carbon emissions to very large financial firms with an appetite for risk and profits would have substantial ...to carbon market, manipulation was driven by the same common human behavior which ...
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Global challenges, geosynthetic solutions and counting carbon
... Key words: Geosynthetics, global challenges, development goals, climate change, sustainability,.. carbon footprint, life cycle analysis.[r] ...
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Building on the Paris Agreement: making the case for embodied carbon intensity targets in construction
... current emissions, the construction industry must also be prepared to deliver a large volume of carbon sinks in order to meet the Paris Agreement goal of achieving “ a balance between anthropogenic ...
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