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Could the recycled yarns substitute for the virgin cotton yarns: a comparative LCA
Cotton yarns spun from natural fibers are widely used in the apparel industry. Most of waste cotton goods are now disposed by incineration or landfill, which brings resource and environmental challenges to the...
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Life cycle assessment of melange yarns from the manufacturer perspective
Different proportions of colored fibers are able to spin into melange yarns with different colors and textures. With the advantages of energy saving, water saving, and emissions reduction in their production, ...
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An integrated environmental and cost assessment method based on LCA and LCC for automobile interior and exterior trim design scheme optimization
This paper provided an integrated method to evaluate environmental impact and life cycle cost (LCC) of various alternative design schemes in the early design and development stages of complex mechanical produc...
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Multi-actor multi-criteria sustainability assessment framework for energy and industrial systems in life cycle perspective under uncertainties. Part 2: improved extension theory
The concept of sustainability and sustainable development has been widely incorporated in energy and industrial systems. This paper is the second part of a two-paper series dealing with multi-actor multi-crite...
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Multi-actor multi-criteria sustainability assessment framework for energy and industrial systems in life cycle perspective under uncertainties. Part 1: weighting method
Life cycle sustainability assessment is meaningful for the decision-makers/stakeholders to select the most sustainable option among multiple alternatives; however, there are usually various severe uncertainty ...
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Prioritization of bioethanol production pathways in China based on life cycle sustainability assessment and multicriteria decision-making
The study objectives are twofold: (i) combining the life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework and the multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology for sustainability assessment and (ii) determi...
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Application of robust optimization in matrix-based LCI for decision making under uncertainty
When product systems are optimized to minimize environmental impacts, uncertainty in the process data may impact optimal decisions. The purpose of this article is to propose a mathematical method for life cycle a...
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How can a life cycle inventory parametric model streamline life cycle assessment in the wooden pallet sector?
This study discusses the use of parameterization within the life cycle inventory (LCI) in the wooden pallet sector, in order to test the effectiveness of LCI parametric models to calculate the environmental im...