A5035085365- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Historical and Environmental Studies
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Bauxite Residue and Utilization
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Metallurgy and Material Science
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Mining and Resource Management
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
- Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Life Cycle Costing Analysis
University of Bologna
2016-2025
Center for Environmental Health
2013-2019
Yale University
2013-2019
As one quarter of global energy use serves the production materials, more efficient these materials presents a significant opportunity for mitigation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With renewed interest policy makers in circular economy, material efficiency (ME) strategies such as light-weighting and downsizing lifetime extension products, reuse recycling appropriate choice are being promoted. Yet, emissions savings from ME remain poorly understood, owing part to multitude uses diversity...
The growth in metal use the past few decades raises concern that supplies may be insufficient to meet demands future. From perspective of historical and current data for seven major metals-iron, manganese, aluminum, copper, nickel, zinc, lead-we have generated several scenarios potential demand from 2010 2050 under alternative patterns global development. We also compared those with various assessments supply midcentury. Five conclusions emerge: (1) calculated each metals doubles or triples...
In some common uses metals are lost by intent-copper in brake pads, zinc tires, and germanium retained catalyst applications being examples. other uses, incorporated into products ways for which no viable recycling approaches exist, examples include selenium colored glass vanadium pigments. To determine quantitatively the scope of these "losses design", we have assessed major 56 metalloids, assigning each use to one three categories: in-use dissipation, currently unrecyclable when discarded,...
There has been increasing attention recently to reprocessing of mining waste, which aims recover potentially valuable materials such as metals and other byproducts from untapped resources. Mining waste valorization may offer environmental advantages over traditional make-waste-dispose approaches. However, a quantitative assessment for large-scale reprocessing, accounting future trends broad set indicators, is still lacking. This article assesses the life cycle impacts resource recovery...
Abstract Rare earth elements (REEs) are fundamental for various modern technologies and industrial applications. One significant application of REEs is in the production neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets, which key components electric vehicles (EVs), wind turbines, electronic devices. These applications play a crucial role driving ecological digital transition, highlighting significance as strategic materials. With dominance very few countries global supply rising EVs demand, several...
In the metals industry, recycling is commonly included among most viable options for climate change mitigation, because using secondary (recycled) instead of primary sources in metal production carries both potential significant energy savings and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Secondary is, however, limited by relative quantity scrap available at end-of-life two reasons: long product lifespans during use delay availability material reuse recycling; rates are low, a result inefficient...
Wind energy is key to addressing the global climate challenge, but its development subject potential constraints of finite primary materials. Prior studies on material demand forecasting wind power are often limited a few materials and with low technological resolution, thus hindering comprehensive understanding impact microengineering parameters resource implications energy. In this study, we developed component-by-component stock-driven prospective flow analysis model used bottom-up data...
The packaging sector and the environmental impacts stemming from its various materials applications are currently at forefront of scientific political debate. To estimate associated with raw identify role industrial processes, this study presents a cradle-to-grave Life Cycle Assessment applied to two distinct formulations for chocolate bars, namely oriented polypropylene-based paper-based packaging. product systems related alternatives were compared by focusing on contribution each resource...
Copper is among the most important metals by production volume and variety of applications, providing essential materials goods for human wellbeing. Compared to other world regions, Europe has modest natural reserves copper highly dependent on imports meet domestic demand. Securing access raw strategic relevance recycling urban mines (also named “in-use stock”) a significant mean provide forms secondary European industry. A dynamic material flow analysis model applied characterize flows in...
Indium is a specialty metal crucial for modern technology, yet it potentially critical due to its byproduct status in mining. Measures reduce criticality typically focus on improving recycling efficiency at end-of-life. This study quantifies primary and secondary indium resources ("stocks") Australia through dynamic material-flow analysis. It based detailed assessments of mineral hosted lead-zinc copper deposits, respective mining activities from 1844 2013, the trade indium-containing...
Summary With increased understanding of the effects human activities on environment and added awareness increasing societal value natural resources, researchers have begun to focus characterization elemental cycles. Indium has captured significant attention due potential for supply shortages nonexistent recycling at end life. Such a combination potentially critical features is magnified countries that depend imports indium, notably many European countries. aims analyzing dynamics material...
Prospective life cycle assessment models were developed and applied at the laboratory industrial scale with aim to evaluate environmental burdens associated LimoFish process used produce fish oil "AnchoiOil", new organic fertilizer "AnchoisFert" or biogas (by means of anaerobic digestion) after treatment anchovy fillet leftovers (AnLeft) agro-solvent d-limonene. Potential impacts for climate change freshwater eutrophication estimated 29.1 kg CO2 eq/kg AnLeft 1.7E-07 PO4 scale, 1.5 2.2E-07...
The growing attention regarding the environmental challenges in energy sectors pushes industrial system toward investigation of more sustainable and renewable sources to replace fossil ones. Among promising alternatives, biomass is considered a valid source convert reduce fraction national mixes, but its multiple potential uses need an evaluation understand actual benefit when it used as resource. For this purpose, life cycle assessment (LCA) applied wood gasification aimed produce...