Blar i Institutt for energi og prosessteknikk på emneord "MSINDECOL Industriell Økologi"
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A Building Information Model (BIM) Based Lifecycle Assessment of a University Hospital Building Built to Passive House Standards
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis undertook a whole building lifecycle assessment of a university hospital building in Trondheim, Norway designed to passive house standards. The delivered energy for electricity and heating was estimated to be ... -
An implementation of the World Trade Model with the GTAP database
(Master thesis, 2011)In this thesis the world trade model with bilateral trade is applied to a large database. The model is based on the economic theory of comparative advantage, equilibrium production levels and benefit of trade. Statistical ... -
Carbon Footprint and Environmental Documentation of Product - A Case Analysis on Road Construction
(Master thesis, 2011)Environmental accounting and documentation of each industry and organization is required for the sustainable development. In addition, environmental awareness is creating pressure to the industry to declare and label ... -
Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy: An Overview of Life Cycle Results
(Master thesis, 2010)Selected non-renewable and renewable energy processes from the ecoinvent 2.2 life cycle inventory database were analysed using basic contribution analysis, geometric series expansion, and structural path analysis. The ... -
Evaluation of Process- and Input-Output-Based Inventories for Environmental Assessment of Production and Consumption Activities: Evaluering av prosess- og kryssløpsbaserte inventardata for miljøanalyser av våre produksjons og konsum aktiviteter
(Master thesis, 2010)Life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmentally extended input-output analysis (IO) both make it possible to account for the direct and indirect environmental impacts of whole life cycles of commodities and services. While ... -
From Ground to Gate: A lifecycle assessment of petroleum processing activities in the United Kingdom
(Master thesis, 2012)Petroleum products are an important component of today s societal energy needs. Petroleum powers everything from the vehicles people rely on, to the ships that carry goods around the world, to the heating of homes in colder ... -
Human dimensions of natural resource management for the Vosso wild salmon population: A systems thinking approach
(Master thesis, 2011)Vosso, the second-largest watershed in Norway, was considered special as it produced some of the biggest salmon in the country. This salmon had economic, cultural as well as ecological importance. Due to its diversity, it ... -
Implementation of Land Use and Land Use Change and its Effects on Biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment
(Master thesis, 2010)Land use refers to the use of land for intensive human activities aiming at exclusive use of land for certain purposes and adapting the properties of land areas in view of these purposes. Environmental problems are, ... -
Life cycle assessment of a pumped storage power plant
(Master thesis, 2011)Wind and solar power plants are gaining increasing attention due to low green house gas emissions associated with electricity generation. The installed capacity of these resources is rapidly growing, while it is argued ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of a Single-Family Residence built to Passive House Standard
(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 Electricity Generation from Low Temperature Waste Heat: The Influence of Working Fluid
(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 platform chemicals from fossil and lignocellulosic biomass scenarios: LCA of phenolic compounds, solvent, soft and hard plastic precursors
(Master thesis, 2011)One of the challenges of our time is the substitution of the existing fossil based economy by a green economy within the framework of sustainable development of our society. Biomass, especially from lignocelluloses, is a ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Scenarios for the Icelandic Vehicle Fleet
(Master thesis, 2011)Environmental issues, foremost global warming and climate change, are attracting more and more attention in world discussion as the global community constantly works on an agreement for actions to limit it. Global warming ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Technical Solutions for High-Speed Rail: Tunnel and Track designs
(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 on the Conversion of CO2 to Formic Acid
(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 Future High-speed Rail in Norway
(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 ... -
Livsløpsanalyse av norske landbruksaktiviteter og produkter
(Master thesis, 2012)Landbrukssektoren har et betydelig miljømessig fotavtrykk, som forventes å øke ettersom verdens befolkning fortsetter å vokse. Verdenssamfunnet har derfor insentiver til å søke etter mer miljøvennlige produksjonsmetoder. ... -
MFA of omega-3 fatty acids EPA & DHA from a Norwegian resource perspective: Implications for future growth in fisheries and aquaculture toward 2050
(Master thesis, 2014)Much of the current research into the sustainability of the fisheries and aquaculture industry has focused on achieving continued growth. The report Value creation from productive oceans, makes annual growth predictions ... -
Sustainable Dwellings and Intergenerational Equality - New Applications for Ecological Economics: A Systems Thinking Approach
(Master thesis, 2011)A systems thinking based approach was used to define and investigate the current state of knowledge in the academic disciplines related to sustainable residential dwellings via literature review. Semi-structured interviews ... -
The communication of environmental impacts through environmental product declarations
(Master thesis, 2011)In 2006 an international standard, ISO 14025, was published on the principles and procedures of environmental product declarations (EPD). The standard gives requirements to the development of EPDs and PCRs and is used as ...