Carbon dioxide life cycle assessment

Barber, A., Fellow, G., 2006. Merino Wool — Life Cycle Assessment New Zealand Merino Industry. Total Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions. The AgriBusiness Group,... 

Aycaguer, A.-C., Lev-on, M. Winer, AM. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions with enhanced oil recovery projects A life cycle assessment approach. Energy Fuel, 15 (2001) 303. 

Life cycle assessment reveals that no petroleum-derived polymer can rival the greenhouse gas sink effect of the improved PLA process. Although disposal of PLA products - whether by combustion, composting or other conventional means - results in a return of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, this advantage survives. 

The other obligation of adhesive makers is disclosure of information for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of adhesively bonded joints. If these data are provided, the users of an adhesive can calculate the environmental impact associated with equivalent energy consumption or equivalent carbon dioxide emission. The later is called carbon footprint whose requests by users is recently increasing, and adhesives are not an exceptiom The users can evaluate the environmental impacts by LCA, and make rational decision to employ adhesive joining or not considering the total tradeoff of the whole life-cycle environmental loads of their products. 

One of the main drivers for the use of bioenergy and bioproducts is their potential environmental benefits (e.g. carbon dioxide emission reduction, biodegradability). It is thus essential that we assess the environmental impact of all the energy and chemical products we manufacture (across their life cycle) to make sure that they... 

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