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Environmental impacts of recycling-based cellulose carbamate fiber
(2020)
Over 100 million tons of textile fibers are consumed by the global textile industry every year. Most of these fibers are currently produced from virgin raw materials, and the environmental impacts of their production are ...
Impact of end of life approach selection and factors in end of life phase to a life cycle assessment of a dispersion coated paper material
(2021)
In this work, the environmental impact of a dispersion coated packaging paper is defined by means of a life cycle assessment. Effect of methodology selection is studied by identi-fying four different suitable end of life ...
Climate impact of biogas and recycled fertilizers production : case : Gasum Oy
(2022)
This Master's thesis was done as a commission of Gasum Oy. The study examined the climate impact of biogas and recycled fertilizers production at Gasum's Lohja biogas plant and compared it to the climate impact of alternative ...
Sustainable carbon capture in oil refineries
(2019)
Carbon capture is a radical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally to mitigate the effects of climate change when CO2 is stored permanently or utilized sustainably. Modern oil refineries are large stationary ...
Carbon footprint of CO2-based polypropylene via methanol-to-olefins route
(2020)
Plastic is one of the most widely used materials today owing to its versatility. However, the rapidly growing plastics industry is largely dependent on fossil fuels and the source of ever-increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) ...
Carbon footprint of events : opening events of Lahti European green capital 2021
(2021)
The aim on this thesis was to calculate carbon footprints of different types of events, from which subsystems does a carbon footprint of an event compose of and generally find out the areas that most affect the carbon ...
Evaluation of life cycle impact assessment methods for biotic production, and their applicability for assessing the use of land-based biotic resources
(2022)
This master’s thesis was assigned by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The aim of this study was to examine the different Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods measuring biotic production that are applicable ...
Taxonomy-based life cycle assessment in Pulp & Energy business line
(2023)
EU Taxonomy is a classification system for defining economic activities that are environmentally sustainable. It works aligned with the European Green Deal in which target is to achieve climate neutrality of EU in 2050 as ...
How to allocate the climate benefits of circular economy solutions to different actors in the supply chain
(2023)
Circular economy (CE) solutions play a key role in controlling a climate crisis as they create climate benefits, i.e., greenhouse gas emission reductions by reducing the production of virgin raw materials and the amount ...
Environmental impacts of lignin-based resin in plywood production
(2023)
This thesis assessed the environmental impacts of lignin-based resin in plywood production. In addition, the environmental impacts of recycling plywood waste instead of incinerating it were assessed. Environmental impacts ...