Blar i Institutt for energi og prosessteknikk på emneord "Industriell Økologi, Environmental Systems Analysis"
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Analysing the sustainability performance and critical improvement factors of urban municipal waste systems - case study RoAF
(Master thesis, 2017)The shift towards a circular economy is a crucial factor to combat climate change and resource depletion. In this context, the European Union adopted the circular economy package resulting in different targets for the waste ... -
Analysing the sustainability performance and critical improvement factors of urban municipal waste systems - Case study Trondheim
(Master thesis, 2017)The management of the natural output of consumption, waste, has to become more sustainable. Ideally this would mean that it simply ceased to exist, but as unrealistic that may be, the current discourse in waste legislation ... -
Analysis of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions at the future building stock at the NTNU campus Gløshaugen
(Master thesis, 2018)The building sector plays an important role in a reduction in energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Recently, Zero Energy/Emission Neighbourhoods have aroused a lot of interest both in policies and in scientific ... -
Analysis of resource consumption of methods for snow production to ski resorts
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis is a case study of Granåsen ski arena in Trondheim. It considers the environmental impacts from operating a 5 km track from November 1st to April 30th, analyzing three different alternatives and a few variations ... -
Applying material flow analysis for optimizing construction aggregates management in the road sector
(Master thesis, 2018)The construction of infrastructure presents large issues of environmental impacts, land-use conflicts, and resource scarcity. Good resource management streamlining the material use and waste production is essential to ... -
Assessment of Gender Inequality in Global Supply Chains
(Master thesis, 2018)Gender inequality affects women all around the world in several aspects of the social and economic domain. Such as employment, education, participation in the governments, amongst others. The gender inequality in employment ... -
Carbon footprint of diets of Norwegian households - status and potential reductions
(Master thesis, 2015)The present work aims at quantifying the current carbon footprint of diets of average Norwegian households with a holistic perspective, and assessing various ways to reduce it. The scope of the research comprises food ... -
Cost evaluation and life cycle assessment of biogas upgrading technologies for an anaerobic digestion case study in the United States
(Master thesis, 2017)Globally, around one third of the food produced is lost or wasted. Instead of landfilling or incinerating, organic municipal solid waste has increasingly been used in anaerobic digestion in order to produce biogas. The ... -
Displacement of Waste Generation Through International Trade
(Master thesis, 2015)Human activities generate environmental, social and resource impacts. Especially the high reliance of modern consumerism on material induce the generation of waste. As most of other environmental issues, waste generation ... -
Do Cash Crops and Species Compete for Scarce Water?
(Master thesis, 2015)Water scarcity is a major environmental challenge of today. More than 2/3 of global water consumption is used in agriculture, part of which for export production or so called cash crops. Some argue that trade of water ... -
Environmental Assessment of Bus Transport in the Trondheim Region - Evaluation of Relevant Bus and Fuel Technologies and their Potential for Mitigating Emissions from Passenger Transportation
(Master thesis, 2015)The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the carbon footprint of transport by bus in the Trondheim region. Bus transportation is promoted as a strategy both to combat local pollution problems in urban areas and to ... -
Environmental Assessment of Electricity Transmission Grid Upgrades Triggered by the Increasing Utilization of Variable and Remote Renewable Energy
(Master thesis, 2014)This study aims to perform hybrid life cycle assessment of potential environmental implications due to expansion of electricity transmission grid which would allow to including intermittent energy sources. Existing studies ... -
Environmental benefits of household plastic and bioplastic packaging management in the municipality of Trondheim
(Master thesis, 2018)Plastic waste is currently at the core of European and Norwegian public debate. On May 22, 2018, the Member States of the European Union (EU) and the European Parliament approved a set of ambitious measures as part of EU ... -
Environmental impacts of future light duty vehicles
(Master thesis, 2017)While a couple of previous studies have used the tool life-cycle assessment to assess the environmental impacts of currently available light duty passenger vehicles, the few studies that model impacts of the future vehicle ... -
Environmental impacts of household food consumption and the efficiency of a carbon tax
(Master thesis, 2018)The agriculture, forest and other land use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of the anthropogenic global GHG emissions. Agriculture is the main driver in the AFOLU sector, as agricultural products such ... -
Environmental impacts of producing and recycling the global passenger vehicle fleet. Integrated scenario analysis with Dynamic Stock models and the Waste-Input-Output model
(Master thesis, 2015)Abstract The last decades humans observe changes that are happening in the climate system. The climate system is warming and only in the last 60 years there have been observed many changes on Earth that they have not been ... -
A First Integration of Anthropogenic Underwater Noise Pollution Impacts on Marine Ecosystems in an LCA Framework - The case of cetaceans in the North Sea
(Master thesis, 2016)The world s oceans provide many ecosystem services that are of high importance to human well-being. A variety of human activities, however, poses threats on the quality of the marine ecosystems. Due to the dependence of ... -
Green Offices - Investigating the Ecological Footprint of Business Services
(Master thesis, 2015)The ecological conservation is a subject of public attention. Among the most discussed issues are (1) the environmental footprint, (2) the biocapacity limits and (3) the ecological overshoot. The Ecological footprint (EF) ... -
How does the ELV recycling and recovery target translate into practice? - The case of the system for treatment of Norwegian ELVs
(Master thesis, 2017)The growth of vehicles as a means of transportation, as well as the increasing computerization of vehicles, makes end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) an important waste flow to recycle. In Norway, the ELV treatment system has ... -
Impact assessment of Norwegian hydropower on freshwater fish species - an LCA approach
(Master thesis, 2016)Accounting for the total environmental impacts associated with energy technologies are becoming increasingly important due to large scale development of renewable resources. In order to assess the trade-offs between large ...