Energy efficiency and environmental assessment of papermaking from chemical pulp - A Finland case study
Pulp and paper manufacturing sector constitutes one of the largest industry segments in the world in terms of water and energy usage as well as of significant use and release of chemicals and combustion products. Since its chief feedstock –wood fiber– is renewable, this industry can play an importan...
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ftuninapoliparth:oai:ricerca.uniparthenope.it:11367/71765 2024-04-14T08:16:35+00:00 Energy efficiency and environmental assessment of papermaking from chemical pulp - A Finland case study Corcelli, Fabiana Fiorentino, Gabriella Vehmas, Jarmo Ulgiati, Sergio Corcelli, Fabiana Fiorentino, Gabriella Vehmas, Jarmo Ulgiati, Sergio 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/11367/71765 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.018 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000442973100011 volume:198 firstpage:96 lastpage:111 numberofpages:16 journal:JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION http://hdl.handle.net/11367/71765 doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.018 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85051602941 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 2300 Strategy and Management1409 Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2018 ftuninapoliparth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.018 2024-03-21T18:00:52Z Pulp and paper manufacturing sector constitutes one of the largest industry segments in the world in terms of water and energy usage as well as of significant use and release of chemicals and combustion products. Since its chief feedstock –wood fiber– is renewable, this industry can play an important role in sustainable development, becoming an example of how a resource can be managed to provide a sustained supply to meet society's current and future needs. This calls for a thorough assessment of environmental costs and impacts associated to pulp and paper operations, including both direct and indirect inputs supporting the whole papermaking process as well as the main outputs, co-products and by-products. By means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, this paper aims at assessing the environmental sustainability of the pulp and paper production so as to identify those phases across the whole supply chain that entail the highest environmental loads, thus requiring improvements. To determine the environmental impacts as accurately as possible, the manufacturing stages performed in the pulp and paper mill complex of Stora Enso Oyj Veitsiluoto Mills at Kemi, Northern Finland, were taken as a model and assessed by means of the SimaPro 8 LCA software, utilizing ReCiPe Midpoint (H) method for the impact assessment. As expected, most of the resulting impacts are caused by the industrial production phase. The production processes of pulp and paper jointly affect all the investigated impact categories with the highest shares, ranging from 50% of generated impacts on water depletion up to 88% on freshwater eutrophication. Generally, the main contributions to environmental loads come from the electricity and heat requirements and, only at a minor extent, from the use of chemicals such as the sodium hydroxide and sodium chlorate. In particular, pulp production process generates the main loads on global warming (46% of the total impacts), ozone depletion (39%), freshwater eutrophication (55%), human toxicity (46%), ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope": CINECA IRIS Veitsiluoto ENVELOPE(24.633,24.633,65.683,65.683) Journal of Cleaner Production 198 96 111 |
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Pulp and paper manufacturing sector constitutes one of the largest industry segments in the world in terms of water and energy usage as well as of significant use and release of chemicals and combustion products. Since its chief feedstock –wood fiber– is renewable, this industry can play an important role in sustainable development, becoming an example of how a resource can be managed to provide a sustained supply to meet society's current and future needs. This calls for a thorough assessment of environmental costs and impacts associated to pulp and paper operations, including both direct and indirect inputs supporting the whole papermaking process as well as the main outputs, co-products and by-products. By means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, this paper aims at assessing the environmental sustainability of the pulp and paper production so as to identify those phases across the whole supply chain that entail the highest environmental loads, thus requiring improvements. To determine the environmental impacts as accurately as possible, the manufacturing stages performed in the pulp and paper mill complex of Stora Enso Oyj Veitsiluoto Mills at Kemi, Northern Finland, were taken as a model and assessed by means of the SimaPro 8 LCA software, utilizing ReCiPe Midpoint (H) method for the impact assessment. As expected, most of the resulting impacts are caused by the industrial production phase. The production processes of pulp and paper jointly affect all the investigated impact categories with the highest shares, ranging from 50% of generated impacts on water depletion up to 88% on freshwater eutrophication. Generally, the main contributions to environmental loads come from the electricity and heat requirements and, only at a minor extent, from the use of chemicals such as the sodium hydroxide and sodium chlorate. In particular, pulp production process generates the main loads on global warming (46% of the total impacts), ozone depletion (39%), freshwater eutrophication (55%), human toxicity (46%), ... |
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Energy efficiency and environmental assessment of papermaking from chemical pulp - A Finland case study |
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Energy efficiency and environmental assessment of papermaking from chemical pulp - A Finland case study |
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Energy efficiency and environmental assessment of papermaking from chemical pulp - A Finland case study |
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