Innovations in papermaking: An LCA of printing and writing paper from conventional and high yield pulp

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 439, Issue , 2012, Pages 307-320

  Manda, B M Krishna ^a   Blok, Kornelis ^a   Patel, Martin K ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attributional modeling; Consequential modeling; Environmental impacts; Life cycle assessment; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CHEMITHERMOMECHANICAL PULPS; ECOTOXICITY; GHG EMISSION; HIGH YIELD; HIGH YIELD PULP; HUMAN TOXICITY; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); NANO-TIO; NEW PRODUCT; NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY; PRINTING AND WRITING PAPERS; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; PULP TYPE; RECOVERED FIBER; RESOURCE SCARCITY; TIO;

COATINGS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIBERS; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; KRAFT PULP; LIFE CYCLE; MECHANICAL PULP; NANOPARTICLES; PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY; PRINTING; RECOVERY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOXICITY; UNBLEACHED PULP; WOOD;

PAPER;

FOSSIL FUEL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INNOVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIBER; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MATERIAL COATING; MODEL; PAPER; PAPER INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOOD PULP;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INVENTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PAPER; PRINTING; TIME FACTORS; TITANIUM; TREES; WOOD;

COATINGS; E I S; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PAPER; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRINTING; PULP INDUSTRY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOXICITY; UNBLEACHED PULPS;

EID: 84867744816     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.09.022     Document Type: Article

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