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Life Cycle Analysis: Assessment of Technologies for Droplet Separation – A Case Study
Author(s) -
Paschetag Mandy,
Paschetag André,
Merkel Florian,
Mehringer Christian,
Scholl Stephan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.202000255
Subject(s) - entrainment (biomusicology) , separation (statistics) , life cycle assessment , process engineering , separation process , environmental science , energy demand , process (computing) , production (economics) , computer science , engineering , environmental economics , physics , chemical engineering , economics , machine learning , rhythm , acoustics , macroeconomics , operating system
For the assessment of separation technologies from an ecological and economic perspective, a case study was performed to investigate the influence of entrainment on energy and resource demand of a single apparatus and on a single production process. Taking the example of the Rectisol process, the influence of droplet entrainment on individual separation equipment as well as on the process as a whole was identified via flowsheet simulation. Based on the calculated mass and energy balances, an LCA and LCC approach was used for the quantification of the entrainment influence.