Hsien Hui Khoo & Reginald B H Tan 
Towards Net-Zero Carbon Initiatives [EPUB ebook] 
A Life Cycle Assessment Perspective

As industrialized nations look into emerging new technologies focusing on renewable or efficient energy use — along with the move towards Sustainable Development Goals — challenges related to achieving low carbon economy projects have gained much attention. This book explores various initiatives and potential methods to achieve net-zero carbon targets and issues.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) will play an important role as an effective and comprehensive method to analyze potential greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts of a technology or system. LCA is a holistic and system-wide scientific method that can be used to quantify impact metrics chosen to evaluate any emerging Net-Zero Carbon technologies of interest, and reveal environmental trade-offs or further research opportunities that are required for balancing CO2 emissions. LCA perspectives of Net-Zero Carbon Technologies can also be used to outline decision-making strategies for a nation’s shift towards low carbon economic development.

Contents:

• Trends of Emerging Zero-Carbon Technologies: The Role of the Life Cycle Assessment for Evaluating Carbon Dioxide Reduction Targets (Hsien Hui KHOO and Reginald B.H. TAN)


• From Carbon Dioxide to Renewable Fuels and Chemicals: The Important Role of Catalysis (Pin LIM, CHANG Jie, CHEN Luwei, POH Chee Kok, LIM San Hua and Hsien Hui KHOO)


• Life Cycle Costing and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Hydrogen Supply Chains using Different Energy Carriers: A Case Study of Japan for 2030 ()


• Connection of the Methanol Economy to Net-Zero Emissions Supported by LCA-Based Environmental Performance Information (Róbert MAGDA, Judit TÓTH and Sarolta IGAZ)


• Life Cycle Assessment of Different Solar to Hydrogen Routes and Hydrogen Carriers (Zhihua WANG, Jinxu ZHANG and Runfan ZHU)


• Hydrogen Production from Biomass and Waste: Life Cycle Assessment Perspective and Deployment Opportunities (Massimiliano MATERAZZI, Andrea PAULILLO and Paola LETTIERI)


• Life Cycle Assessment of Chemical Recycling: Recommendations for a Systemic Assessment of its Contribution to the Circular Carbon Economy and Zero Waste Transition (Roh Pin LEE, Florian KELLER and Raoul VOSS)


• Evaluation of Recycling Methods: Towards Decarbonization of Chemicals and Fuels via a Circular Economy Model (TAY Siok Wei, Warintorn THITSARTARN and Hsien Hui KHOO)


• Feasibility Review of Hydrogen Production Options: Life Cycle Assessment and Economic Assessment (Pancy ANG and Hsien Hui KHOO)


• Life Cycle Assessment Digitalization to Assess the Performance of Linear Infrastructure Projects (Koji NEGISHI)


• Biodiesel Production from Palm Oil Feedstock: Techno-Economic Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment Applications (Iskandar HALIM and Hsien Hui KHOO)


• Progress on Carbon Balancing in Life Cycle Assessment with a Focus on the Ecosystem Service Contribution (Benedetto RUGANI and Marco ALLOCCO)


• Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Framework for Sustainability Assessment (Dhanush MAJJI and Arnab DUTTA)


• Environmental and Economic Impacts of Food Waste Management — A Focus on Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment (Matthew FRANCHETTI, Alex SPIVAK, Shrijith Ashok KUMAR and Lakshika KURUPPUARACHCHI)


• The Net-Zero Carbon Dioxide Framework for Life Cycle Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage Techniques (Arezoo AZIMI, Li SHEN and Mijndert VAN DER SPEK)


• Power Plant Integrated with Carbon Capture and Utilization: Potential Carbon-based Fuels and Chemicals in Singapore (S C Lenny KOH, Hsien Hui KHOO and Moein SHAMOUSHAKI)

Readership: Life Cycle Analysis Practitioners, Environmental Researchers/Scientists, and Professors.

Key Features:

• Climate change has become an important global concern leading to various international research efforts with the objective to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions


• Decarbonization involves how energy is produced with a radical switch to renewables and other alternative low carbon energy sources


• In this book, LCA perspectives is identified an the initiatives for Net Zero Carbon


• Compilation of case studies in the areas of CCU, low carbon H2, biofuels, circular economy and resource management, etc. from distinguished scientists and Professors worldwide will presented in this book