Client: Various Industries
Objective:Creating LCA datasets for agricultural based products such as ...
Duration: Ongoing
Client: Various Industries
Objective:Creating LCA datasets for different agricultural products and various renewable resources (cotton, flax, hemp, soy bean, kenaf, jute, sisal, oil palm, rapeseed, linseed, corn, wheat, triticale, sugar beet, sugarcane, sunflower, coconut tree, cocoa, tobacco, jatropha, poplar short rotation coppice, rubber tree (caoutchouc), pine, , etc…) grown in various countries
Duration: Ongoing
Client: ACTA
Objective:Comparison of the environmental impacts of an artificial Christmas tree vs. a natural Christmas tree over the entire life cycle including production, processing, manufacture, packaging, transport and end of life.
Duration: 2008
Client: ---
Objective: Creating, maintaining and updating a LCA database on agricultural production for the Software System GaBi 4.
Fertilizers and pesticides, tractors & passes, agricultural equipment. The database furthermore contents several industrial intermediate products for e. g. producing biopolymers and bio fuels.
Duration: Ongoing
Client: Industry
Objective: LCA on the entire life cycle of cigarettes from tobacco production, processing, manufacture, packaging, transport until butt and packaging disposal
Duration: 2007 ongoing
Client: Industry
Partner: University of Kassel-Witzenhausen
Objective: Complete modeling of the entire chain of SunDiesel (BTL) production starting from agricultural production of different renewable resources and transport via conversion processes up to combustion of SunDiesel in cars. (Duration 2004-2006)
Duration: 2004 ongoing
(Development of multilayer façade panels of modified wood for outdoor application, Short title: “Weatherproof façade panels of modified Wood” (WEFAM-Holz))
Client: BMBF composite project (German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology)
Partner: Industry, universities and divers research establishments
Objective: Evaluation of ecological potentials by increasing the use of wood for façade panels. Purpose of this project is to assess from a market and product point of view the ecological potentials effected by the use of façade panels of weatherproof wood. In addition, by means of project accompanying accounting, ecological optimization potentials are to be ascertained.
Duration: 2005 ongoing
Download Publication: The final report is available for download here.
Client: Land Studies Inc./ Chesapeake Bay Commission
Objective: A Life Cycle Assessment was performed for the Chesapeake Bay Region (USA) to allow an environmental comparison between the current practice of spreading chicken litter on the local fields and the proposed practice of utilizing the chicken litter as a biomass fuel source to generate electricity. Environmental impacts have been calculated for different scenarios to get information on how the environmental impacts will change when the chicken litter is burned to produce energy (future scenario) instead of used as fertilizer in corn production (current scenario). A complete system with defined system boundaries and functional units was set up to be able to compare the scenarios.
Duration: 2007
Team: Steven Baer (Five Winds; Project Lead), Nuno da Silva, Dr. Sabine Deimling, Dr. Martin Baitz
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(Analysis of studies regarding the environmental performance of renewables from agriculture and forestry in material use)
Client: Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
Objective: The objective of the study is to provide the ministry with comparable information on the environmental performance of different materials and products based on renewables (such as celluloses, fibres, fats, oils, proteins, starches and other polysaccharides). The study will focus on the material use of renewables, not on the use as energy.
Duration: 2007
Download Publication: Study and Annex (in German) are available at FNR-website
Client: Industry
Objective: Collection and summary of available data from literature on the environmental performance of the bio-ethanol production from sugar cane in Brazil
Duration: 2007
Kurztitel: Grundwasserschonende Bioenergieerzeugung
(Ground water sparing bio-energy production)
Client: Badenova AG & Co KG
Partner: Agentur für nachhaltige Nutzung von Agrarlandschaften (ANNA, Germany) and Agroscope Reckenholz (FAL, Switzerland)
Objective: Evaluation of ecological potentials by increasing the use of wood for façade panels. Purpose of this project is to assess from a market and product point of view the ecological potentials effected by the use of façade panels of weatherproof wood. In addition, by means of project accompanying accounting, ecological optimization potentials are to be ascertained.
Duration: 2005-2007
Download Publication: Final Report and Annex (in German):
HÖLSCHER, T., DEIMLING, S., FREIERMUTH KNUCHEL, R., KÄGI, T., GAILLARD, G. & MÜLLER-SÄMANN, K. & (2007): Energieproduktion aus landwirtschaftlicher Biomasse am Oberrhein - Auswirkungen für Landwirtschaft und Umwelt. Endbericht zum Projekt des Innovationsfonds Klima- und Wasserschutz der badenova AG, 59 Seiten & gesonderter Anhang. (see: www.pe-international.com/resources)
FREIERMUTH KNUCHEL, R., KÄGI, T., HÖLSCHER, T. MÜLLER-SÄMANN, K. & DEIMLING, S. (2006): Bioenergiekulturen in Südbaden: Energetische Nutzung und Nitratsanierung des Grundwassers. Kurzvortrag am 30. Diskussionsforum Ökobilanzen, 28. November 2006, Bern-Ittingen. www.lcainfo.ch/DF/default.htm
FREIERMUTH KNUCHEL, R., KÄGI, T., GAILLARD, G., DEIMLING, S., MÜLLER-SÄMANN, K. & HÖLSCHER, T. (2007): Life Cycle Assessment of energy crops with focus on ground water protection in South Germany. Poster presentation, SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, Porto, 20. - 24. Mai 2007.
Client: Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM)
Partner: LBP University of Stuttgart
Objective: Analysis of the environmental impacts of the production, utilization and “end of life” of three packaging systems (wooden crates, cardboard boxes, polymer crates). This includes the individual distribution systems (one-way and multi-way).
The study also includes cost factors over the entire life cycle and considers social characteristics of the products and process chains.
Duration: 2005-2009
Download Publication: The final report and the update 2009 are available for download here.
(Effectively promoting ecological potentials by the use of wood)
Client: BMBF composite project (German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology)
Partner: University of Hamburg, IKP University of Stuttgart, Knauf Consulting
Objective: This scientific project is an assessment of the ecological market potentials of a shift from one to another product group. The example in this project is the shift from non-wooden products to wood products and the extension of demand for wood products. It delivers guidelines for companies active in the wood product market or other (political) actors interested on the ecological market potentials.
Duration: 2005-2007
Client: Volkswagen AG and DaimlerChrysler
Objective: Complete modeling of the entire chain of SunDiesel production starting from forestry production (residual wood versus primary wood) and transport via conversion processes up to combustion of SunDiesel in cars.
Duration: 2003-2004
Download Publication: The final report is available for download here.
(LCA-Studie über die Umweltwirkung von biologisch abbaubaren Kunststoffen im End of Life)
Client: PE ASIA
Objective: The study demonstrates that incineration of biodegradable plastic (on the basis of poly lactic acid) is more sustainable than simply disposing it. For the presentation of the results different emissions (CO2, N2O) as well as energy consumption were selected. At the end the advantage of the incineration regarding sustainability is obvious in comparison to the land filling of biodegradable plastics.
Duration: 2003-2004
Publication: Transactions of the Materials Research Society of Japan Volume 29, No. 5, ISSN 1382-3469, page 1875 - 1878, August 2004.
(Life cycle optimization of beverage packaging – Scenario enlargement for beverage composite boards)
Client: Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM)
Partner: LBP University of Stuttgart
Objective: The study is an enlargement of the UBA-study “LCA of baverage packaging II” published in 2000. Due to major changes at the beverage packaging market in recent years (concerning size, equipment material composition and “end of life”), a revision of the results seemed necessary.
Duration: 2003
(Feasibility study: Interior and façade paints from renewable resources)
Client: German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, Agency of Renewable Resources (FNR)
Partner: LCS, Sto and BASF
Objective: In a project sponsored by the Agency of Renewable Resources (FNR), Germany, the potential for adopting renewable resources (particularly starch) substituting petrochemical products in the formulation of paints (with a focus on paints for interiors and facades) was systematically examined. The LCAs have shown that distinct potentials for the development of paints based on renewable resources could be identified as early as with the first attempt.
Duration: 2001 – 2003
Download Publication: Innenraum- und Fassadenfarben mit Nachwachsenden Rohstoffen, M. Harsch, B. Schuler, M. Güntert, S. Deimling und M. Betz (2003)
In: Nachwachsende Rohstoffe für die Chemie, 8. Symposium am 26. und 27. März 2003, Universität Tübingen, Landwirtschaftsverlag GmbH, Münster, Page 242 ff.
The final report is available for download here.
Client: Industry
Objective: Environmental profile of biodiesel produced out of used vegetable oil and primary biodiesel from palm oil, rapeseed and soy bean.
Duration: 2001-2003
Client: Industry
Objective: Eco-profiles of different seat cover materials (leather, leatherette (PVC, PUR), Alcantara, cotton, wool)
Duration: 2001-2002
(Thermal use of wooden products – input dependant modeling of the End-of-Life processes of wood)
Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Holzforschung und Holzabsatzfonds
Objective: Various energy recovery facilities for wooden products were examined and modeled. Eco-profiles were developed, depending on the technical standard of the machinery and the product’s relative content of actual wood. These showed which of the internal analyses and optimum realization concepts for wood products would fulfil, or even exceed, legal requirements.
Duration: 2001 – 2002
Download Publication: www.oekobilanzen-holz.de/ThermV.pdf
(Communication of environmentally relevant indicators for the wood industry)
Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Holzforschung und Holzabsatzfonds
Objective: The guideline assists companies of the forest and wood-based industries as well as the wood-manufacturing industry to better communication their environmental advantages. The guideline enables the wood industry to effectively prepare and profitably adopt internal established (environmental) information. It highlights how environmentally relevant data can be generated pragmatically, and provides most value for the company or business, its employees and customers, and finally the environment.
Duration: 2001 – 2002
Download Publication: www.oekobilanzen-holz.de/Leitfaden.pdf
Client: Industry
Objective: Modelling of detailed LCI-datasets of cropping, processing and part production of fibre-fleeces and other fibre-reinforced parts of various primary and recycled natural fibres (flax, hemp, cotton, sisal, coconut, wood fibre etc.)
Duration: 2000
(Situation analysis for beverage packaging)
Client: Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
Objective: The study is a critical analysis of the results obtained in the UBA-study “LCA of baverage packaging II” published in 2000.
Duration: 2000
(Renewable raw materials in buildings – maximium use)
Client: BMBF and MLR
Objective:Maximale Nutzung von nachwachsenden Rohstoffen zur Förderung regionaler Stoffkreisläufe - Beurteilung der Hemmnisse und Möglichkeiten auf dem Gebiet des Bauwesens
Duration: 1999 – 2001
Download Publication: Projekt-Zwischenbericht (2000), Abschlussbericht (2009)
Client: Multi client project
Objective: LCA Model of incineration of different wooden products
Duration: 1997-2000
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