Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Life Cycle costing of a unitised regenerative fuel cell stack.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Life Cycle Costing (eLCC) are useful methods for evaluating the environmental, energy and economic performances of innovative energy storage technologies. By using these methods, the production process of a small Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cell (PEM-URFC) stack has been investigated, aiming to assess its environmental, energy and economic impacts at the early design stage and to identify the contributions of its various components on these impacts. Indeed, the PEM-URFC stack includes Critical Raw Materials that affect the product's sustainability.

FLAVIA-LCT - Framework for systematic literature review to analyse vast InformAtion in life cycle thinking studies.

With the increasing interest in Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) applications for assessing the sustainability of processes, products and services, up-to-date syntheses and evidence-based critical outcomes analysis are required to guide future studies and policymakers. The systematic literature review is probably the most suitable approach for highlighting evidence of effects, impacts, and methodological choices, mapping the current knowledge and gaps in LCT fields, including methods such as Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing, Social Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment. Although several statements and guidelines for health care and ecology disciplines and one checklist for systematic literature review limited to Life Cycle Assessment (STARR-LCA) exist, it is still missing a framework for conducting systematic literature reviews in LCT field.

Industrial Symbiosis for Sustainable Management of Meat Waste: The Case of Śmiłowo Eco-Industrial Park, Poland.

This study presents the developing process of the Śmiłowo Eco-Park, located in the Noteć valley region (Poland), is a part of the biggest Polish agri-food consortium, from its initial small waste management company to its final structure as an eco-industrial park using industrial symbiosis methods. The industrial symbiosis applied in the Eco-park promotes a business model which covers the whole life cycle of the products starting from the plant growing by animal feed preparation, livestock breeding, meat preparations, meat-bone meal production from animal waste, and the use of pig slurry as a fertilizer. The Eco-park model is presented in the form of a system of connected stream flows of materials and energy covering the full lifecycle of products, from cereal cultivation, through the production of industrial feed, and poultry and pig breeding for the production of meat products.

Molecular characterization and expression analysis of heat shock protein 70 and 90 from Hermetia illucens reared in a food waste bioconversion pilot plant.

Two full-length cDNAs of heat shock protein (HSP) genes (Hihsp70 and Hihsp90) were cloned from the black soldier fly (BSF) Hermetia illucens larvae reared in a food waste bioconversion pilot plant. The Hihsp70 and Hihsp90 transcripts were 2243 and 2507bp long, contained 1923 and 2166bp open reading frames encoding proteins of 640 and 721 amino acids with a molecular mass of 69.8 and 83kDa, respectively.