Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Hertwich, Edgar"
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Life Cycle Assessment of a Single-Family Residence built to Passive House Standard
Dahlstrøm, Oddbjørn (Master thesis, 2011)Two complete cradle to grave life cycle assessments are conducted for the comparison of a house built after today s building standard, TEK07, and a passive house built after the Norwegian Standard NS 3700:2010. Both houses ... -
Life cycle assessment of an offshore electricity grid interconnecting Northern Europe
Nes, Rasmus Nikolai (Master thesis, 2012)There is a growing demand for increased electricity transfer capacities between the countries surrounding the North Sea. The increased capacities will enable easier integration of intermittent renewable energy sources, ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Desalinated Water for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Kvadsheim, Mari Hellvik (Master thesis, 2013)Currently, fossil fuels supply 85% of the world?s energy demand. Nevertheless, we consume more than we are able to produce from new discoveries of fossil resources. As energy demand is predicted to grow rapidly over the ... -
Life cycle assessment of electric power generation by wind turbines containing rare earth magnets
Venås, Christoffer (Master thesis, 2015)Direct-drive permanent magnet generator (DD-PMG) wind turbines are becoming a larger part of the growing offshore wind turbine market. The strong permanent magnets used, the NdFeB magnets, contains neodymium metal. The ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation from Low Temperature Waste Heat: The Influence of Working Fluid
Bai, Lijun (Master thesis, 2012)In the metallurgical industry and in refineries and process industries, there is significant amount of waste heat, it is a challenged field to do the research for producing electricity from the energy of waste heat. ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Transmission and Distribution
Hauan, Ingrid Bjerke (Master thesis, 2014)As the integration of renewable electricity production progresses and the energy consumption pattern evolves, the transportation of energy is essential for securing sufficient supply while meeting political targets. Power ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Fuel Choices for Marine Vessels
Øberg, Martha Marie (Master thesis, 2013)Transporting 80% for the total volume of goods in the world, shipping is currently the backbone of the global economy. The global fleet consists of multiple types of vessels, which delivers various forms of services. As ... -
Life cycle assessment of secondary aluminium refining
Gilstad, Gro (Master thesis, 2013)The goal of this life cycle assessment is to investigate refining methods which makes it possible to utilise post-consumer aluminium scrap in production of aluminium products that have strict requirements to chemical purity. ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Technical Solutions for High-Speed Rail: Tunnel and Track designs
Lia, Anne Margrethe (Master thesis, 2012)On the 19th of February 2010, the Ministry of Transport and Communication presented the Norwegian National Rail Administration with the task of assessing different aspects of the future of high-speed rail in Norway. The ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Ventilation Systems
Schau, Marie (Master thesis, 2013)AbstractThree different analyses are conducted in this thesis. First there is made a database of ventilation components with life cycle inventory (LCI) data that can be used to optimize duct work systems based on LCA. These ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Wastewater Treatment for Oil and Gas Operations
Torp, Anne Lise (Master thesis, 2014)Comparison of the three scenarios -
Life Cycle Assessment on the Conversion of CO2 to Formic Acid
Robledo-Diez, Alvaro (Master thesis, 2012)The objective of this work is to provide an environmental assessment of the impacts that the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to formic acid produces. In order to do this, Life Cycle Assessment has been used. -
Life-cycle assessment of a multi-family residence built to passive house standard
Melvær, Martin Sveinssønn (Master thesis, 2012)LCA of buildings has become a distinguished field of LCA, and a number of previous studies have found that low energy buildings generally have better life cycle performance than conventional buildings. However, there has ... -
Life-Cycle assessment of Future High-speed Rail in Norway
Grossrieder, Carine (Master thesis, 2011)The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the core factors for the environmental performance of future Norwegian high-speed rail (HSR) and to study their likely development up to 2050 in a life-cycle assessment ... -
Life-cycle assessment of international vacation packages
Veselkova, Anna (Master thesis, 2014)This thesis aims to perform a Life Cycle Assessment in order to explore environmental impacts associated with a vacation package. It identified the phases of the holiday that generated the largest impact, the most significant ... -
Marine Ecotoxic Pulse Effects In LCIA,
Pettersen, Johan; Peters, Glen; Hertwich, Edgar (Working Papers from Industrial Ecology Programmme (IndEcol), 1504-3681; 2004:9, Research report, 2004)Fate modeling for characterization of ecotoxic substances in life-cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is traditionally performed with steady-state multi-compartment models. Instantaneous mixing within compartments is an implicit ... -
Metode for timesoppløst marginal utslippsprofil og anvendelse i klimagassberegninger for Nyhavna
Helseth, Inger Adele Haugnes (Master thesis, 2022)Utviklingen av smarte byer og nullutslippsområder (ZENs) skal bidra til lokal produksjon av fornybar energi og effektiv energibruk. Gjennom Forskningssenter for nullutslippsområder i smarte byer (FME ZEN) har ZENs blitt ... -
Path Exchange Method for Hybrid Life-Cycle Assessment
Baboulet, Olivier (Master thesis, 2009)To keep process-specificity while extending system boundaries hybrid techniques were developed allowing the micro structure of the important parts of a system to be revealed at the same time the entire economic system in ... -
Pollution Embodied in Norwegian Consumption
Peters, Glen; Briceno, Tania; Hertwich, Edgar (Working Papers from Industrial Ecology Programmme (IndEcol), 1504-3681; 2004:6, Research report, 2004)A promising way to reduce environmental impacts of consumer expenditure is through the encouragement of more sustainable consumption patterns. This requires a consistent and accurate framework to identify the most sustainable ... -
Potential Climate Impact Variations Due to Fueling Behavior of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Owners in the US
Wolfram, Paul; Hertwich, Edgar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)With the expected rapid growth of renewable electricity generation, charging plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) from the grid promise ever higher reductions in CO2 emissions. Previous analyses have found that the ...