By Jo Dewulf, Steven De Meester, Rodrigo A. F. Alvarenga
Over the earlier decade, renewables-based know-how and sustainability overview tools have grown significantly. Renewable power and items have an important function available in the market this present day, and an analogous time sustainability evaluation equipment have complex, with a starting to be standardization of environmental sustainability metrics and attention of social matters as a part of the assessment.
Sustainability overview of Renewables-Based items: tools and Case Studies is an in depth replace and sequel to the 2006 name Renewables-Based expertise: Sustainability Assessment. It discusses the remarkable evolution and position renewables have taken in our glossy society, highlighting the significance of sustainability ideas within the layout section of renewable-based applied sciences, and providing a variety of sustainability evaluate tools compatible for renewables-based applied sciences, including case experiences to illustrate their applications.
This ebook is a invaluable source for lecturers, companies and coverage makers who're lively in contributing to extra sustainable creation and consumption.
For additional info at the Wiley sequence in Renewable assets, stopover at www.wiley.com/go/rrs
Topics coated include:
- The turning out to be position of renewables in our society
- Sustainability within the layout section of goods and processes
- Principles of sustainability assessment
- Land use analysis
- Water use analysis
- Material and effort stream analysis
- Exergy and cumulative exergy analysisCarbon and environmental footprint methods
- Life Cycle evaluation (LCA), social lifestyles Cycle review and existence Cycle Costing (LCC)
- Case stories: renewable strength, bio-based chemical compounds and bio-based materials.
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