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Walker, C.; Beretta, C.; Sanjuán Pellicer, MN.; Hellweg, S. (2018). Calculating the energy and water use in food processing and assessing the resulting impacts. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 23(4):824-839. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-017-1327-6

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Title: Calculating the energy and water use in food processing and assessing the resulting impacts
Author: Walker, C. Beretta, C. Sanjuán Pellicer, María Nieves Hellweg, S.
UPV Unit: Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Tecnología de Alimentos - Departament de Tecnologia d'Aliments
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[EN] Purpose The food processing industry is a major consumer of energy and water, the consumption of which has environmental impacts. This work develops a method to determine process-specific water use and utilizes an ...[+]
Subjects: Energy demand , Food processing , Juice processing , Potato processing , Water consumption
Copyrigths: Cerrado
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International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. (issn: 0948-3349 )
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-017-1327-6
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-017-1327-6
Thanks:
We thank the two facilities for offering their data, time, and knowledge in order to build the case studies and ETH Zurich for the financial support.
Type: Artículo

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