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Life Cycle Assessment of Wind Power
Current life cycle assessments are an essential basis for a scientific and comprehensive comparison of the environmental impact of various power generation technologies. The low environmental impact (e. g. carbon footprint per kWh) is an important argument for the expansion of wind energy in Switzerland. However, ...
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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 production, life ...
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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 controlfor 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 globalisation ...
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Global Greenhouse Impact Model
The carbon footprint of foodstuffs is a key factor for sustainable development of the food sector. One of the major factors contributing to the carbon footprint of foodstuffs is the heating of greenhouses. The required quantity of heating is highly variable depending on production season and local ...
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ZHAW Agri-food Database
The Agrifood database is collection of life cycle inventory data for agricultural and food products. This database can be used to analyse the environmental impacts of processes in the agricultural and food value chain and to determine the corresponding environmental hotspots. The Agrifood database includes life ...