Projects at the Life Cycle Assessment research group
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Green Hospital
Environmental Impact Assessment, Resource Efficiency, and Hands-on Applications
completed, 09/2017 - 08/2021
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Cocoa in Numbers – from data to knowledge
Nowadays consumers of cocoa and chocolate products are not only interested in safe high-quality products but also in products which are sustainable and produced under fair ecological and social conditions. The demand for transparency of information on the condition of cultivation, production and…
completed, 07/2020 - 07/2021
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Sustainability assessment of the CO2 methanation value chain: environmental impacts and socio-economic drivers and barriers
This project aims at evaluating the sustainability of the joint project’s “Reduction and reuse of CO2” value chain, i.e. the carbon dioxide methanation value chain – from the production of hydrogen through photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting (partner project 2), through the methanation of…
completed, 01/2015 - 01/2018
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BIOMAT (Integrated Bio-based Materials Value Chains)
The aim of the project is to develop sustainable bio-based materials to replace the fossil based counterparts. On the one hand, biomaterials will be produced from side-stream products of agro-food industry. On the other hand, green technologies such as cultivation of microalgae will be used to…
completed, 06/2019 - 05/2022
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The Coffee Blockchain – From Field to Cup
Strengthen transparency and trust in the agro-food business with distributed ledger technology
completed, 08/2018 - 12/2021
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LCA of peat, alternative substrates and growing media
Due to its soil improving properties peat is regarded as an ideal component of growing media. However, peat cutting has a high environmental impact. In Switzerland, the extraction of peat is prohibited since 1987, but 130’000 tons of peat are imported every year. To reduce peat consumption,…
completed, 11/2014 - 12/2015
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Climate-KIC Summer School
completed, 02/2020 - 12/2021
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EAT-IT
CO2 Eaternity Analysis Tool - Information and transparency for CO2
completed, 07/2015 - 09/2016
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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) (LCSA)
completed, 01/2020 - 12/2020
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National network STEM education – "The dream of flying"
The continuation and expansion of the national network for the promotion of STEM education established in the previous funding period 2017-2020 is intended to further strengthen cooperation between people from universities of teacher education and technical and scientific universities in the…
completed, 01/2021 - 12/2024
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Fostering Biodiversity Footprint Management Along Value Chains (BioPrint)
BioPrint is an inter- and transdisciplinary research collaboration with the overarching purpose to improve the management of biodiversity footprints of product groups as well as individual products along value chains.
completed, 08/2024 - 03/2025
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TRANSFOOD – IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY IMPACTS OF TRANSNATIONAL FOOD VALUE CHAINS
Globalisation of the food trade leads to various impacts on the economy, the environment, and society. Emerging economies that have expanded their agricultural trade and have become net agricultural exporters are particularly affected. The proposed research collaboration aims at combining…
completed, 12/2017 - 12/2018
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Applying Life Cycle Assessment for the mitigation of environmental impacts South African agrifood products
The project contributed to the important global question of how to reduce environmental impacts from food production, with a focus on South African food value chains. The Swiss and South African project team joined forces to ensure basic data collection for South African maize, dairy and fruit…
completed, 01/2014 - 07/2017
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Environmental Sustainability of Renewable Methane for Mobility
Within this subproject in the framework of the National Research Programm 70 regarding energy turnaround, an environmental sustainability assessement of power-to-gas (PtG) methane will be conducted by applying life cycle assessment methodology. In the PtG technology, hydrogen and carbon dioxide are…
completed, 04/2016 - 10/2017
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Life Cycle Assessment of various packaging options in the jam production
Hero AG is producing more than 100 different jams in various packaging sizes, whereof Mini-, Midi- and MaxiJars are available. Basically, three packaging options are good solutions: aluminium, glass and plastic. Recently, Hero was confronted with critique, regarding to the use of aluminium Cups,…
completed, 06/2016 - 03/2017
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Food for Future
completed, 02/2016 - 10/2017
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Secure Management Platform for Shared Process Resources (SHAREBOX)
To pave the way forward for IS as a solution for more efficient processing and energy systems for the process industry, we will develop a secure ICT platform (SHAREBOX) for the flexible management of shared process resources that will provide plant operations and production managers with the robust…
completed, 09/2015 - 08/2019
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Robust and affordable process control technologies for improving standards and optimising industrial operations (ProPAT)
The Process Industries require a high degree of automation, monitoring, and advanced simulation and control for their often complex manufacturing processes and operations. Emphasis is on continuous or batch production, mixing, reaction and separation of materials of higher value. Indeed, increased…
completed, 01/2014 - 12/2018
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ZHAW Agri-food Database
Life Cycle Inventories for agricultural and food products
completed, 11/2013 - 12/2019
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Extension of the study on life cycle assessments for alternative substrates to peat
The aim of the research study is to extend the study by Eymann et al. (2015) of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) by selected substrate components and substrate mixtures which, based on defined criteria, have a high potential as peat substitutes. Analogous to the 2015 study, the…
completed, 09/2018 - 08/2020