Energy and environmental sustainability of waste personal protective equipment (PPE) treatment under COVID-19
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F22%3APU142271" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/22:PU142271 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.vutbr.cz/science/article/pii/S1364032121010558" target="_blank" >https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.lib.vutbr.cz/science/article/pii/S1364032121010558</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111786" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.rser.2021.111786</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Energy and environmental sustainability of waste personal protective equipment (PPE) treatment under COVID-19
Original language description
Combating the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the demand for and disposal of personal protective equipment in the United States. This work proposes a novel waste personal protective equipment processing system that enables energy recovery through producing renewable fuels and other basic chemicals. Exergy analysis and environmental assessment through a detailed life cycle assessment approach are performed to evaluate the energy and environmental sustainability of the processing system. Given the environmental advantages in reducing 35.42% of total greenhouse gas emissions from the conventional incineration and 43.50% of total fossil fuel use from landfilling processes, the optimal number, sizes, and locations of establishing facilities within the proposed personal protective equipment processing system in New York State are then determined by an optimization based site selection methodology, proposing to build two pre-processing facilities in New York County and Suffolk County and one integrated fast pyrolysis plant in Rockland County. Their optimal annual treatment capacities are 1,708 t/y, 8,000 t/y, and 9,028 t/y. The proposed optimal personal protective equipment processing system reduces 31.5% of total fossil fuel use and 35.04% of total greenhouse gas emissions compared to the personal protective equipment incineration process. It also avoids 41.52% and 47.64% of total natural land occupation from the personal protective equipment landfilling and incineration processes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20704 - Energy and fuels
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000456" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000456: Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory (SPIL)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
ISSN
1364-0321
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
153
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
111786-111786
UT code for WoS article
000714449100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85118731468