Ecosolvent scientific background
Environmental Assessment of Waste-Solvent Treatment in the Swiss Chemical Industry
Ch. Capello, S. Hellweg, C. Seyler, and K. Hungerbühler
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Collaboration
external pageSwiss Federal Office of Energy (project no. 100065)call_made
external pageCiba Specialty Chemicals AGcall_made
external pageEMS Dottikon AGcall_made
external pageHoffmann-La Roche AGcall_made
external pageLonza Group Ltd.call_made
external pageNovartis Pharma AGcall_made
external pageSiegfried Ltd.call_made
external pageValorec Services AGcall_made
external pageFachhochschule beider Baselcall_made
Publications and Reports related to the topic
Capello, C. 2006: Environmental Assessment of Waste-Solvent Treatment in the Swiss Chemical Industry. Dissertation ETH 16458.
Capello, C, Hellweg, S, Badertscher, B, Betschart, H, Hungerbühler, K. 2007: Environmental Assessment of Waste-Solvent Treatment in the Pharmaceutical and Specialty Chemicals Industry. Part 1. The ECOSOLVENT Tool. In press. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Capello, C, Hellweg, S, Hungerbühler, K. 2007: Environmental Assessment of Waste-Solvent Treatment in the Pharmaceutical and Specialty Chemicals Industry. Part 2. General Rules of Thumb and Specific Recommendations. In press. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Capello, C, Fischer, U, Hungerbühler, K. 2007: What is a green solvent? A comprehensive framework for the environmental assessment of solvents. In press. Green Chemistry.
Capello, C, Sutter, J, Wernet, G, Hellweg, S, Hungerbühler, K. 2007: Comprehensive environmental assessment of the petrochemical solvent production. Int J LCA submitted for publication
Seyler, C, Capello, C, Hellweg, S, Bruder, B, Bayne, D, Huwiler, A, Hungerbühler, K. 2005: external pageWaste-Solvent Management as an Element of Green Chemistry: A Comprehensive Study on the Swiss Chemical Industrycall_made. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 45(22), 7700-7709
Capello, C, Hellweg, S, Badertscher, B, Hungerbühler, K. 2005: external pageLife-Cycle Inventory of Waste Solvent Distillation: Statistical Analysis of Empirical Datacall_made. Environmental Science & Technology, 39 (15), 5885-5892.
Seyler, C, Hofstetter, TB, Hungerbühler, K. 2005: external pageLife-Cycle Inventory for Thermal Treatment of Waste Solvemt in Chemical Industry: A Multi-Input Allocation Model.call_made Journal of Cleaner Production 13 (13-14) 1211-1224.
Hellweg, S, Fischer, U, Scheringer, M, Hungerbühler, K. 2004: external pageEnvironmental Assessment of Chemicals: Methods and Applications to a Case Study of Organic Solventscall_made. Green Chemistry 6 (08), 418-427.
Seyler, C, Hellweg, S, Monteil, M, Hungerbühler, K. 2004: external pageLife Cycle Inventory for Use of Waste Solvents as Fuel Substitute in the Cement Industry: A Multi-Input Allocation Model.call_made International Journal of LCA 10 (2) 120-130.
Seyler-Jahn, C. 2003: Ein inputabhängiges Oekoinventar-Modell für die thermische Verwertung von Abfall-Lösungsmittel in der chemisch-pharmazeutischen Industrie.Dissertation ETH 15089.
Hofstetter, T.B., Capello, C., Hungerbühler, K. 2003: external pageEnvironmentally Preferable Treatment Options For Industrial Waste Solvent Management: A Case Study of a Toluene Containing Waste solvent.call_made Trans IChemE (81) 3, 189-202
Hofstetter, T.B., Capello, C., Hungerbühler, K. 2003: external pageEin ökologischer Vergleich der Verbrennung und Rektifikation von Abfalllösungsmitteln.call_made Chemie Ingenieur Technik (75) 1-2,
154-160.
Hofstetter, T.B. 2002: Abfallösungsmittelbewirtschaftung in der chemischen Industrie - Ein ökologischer Vergleich von Rektifikation und Verbrennung. Schlussbericht. Bundesamt für Energie, Bern. Download(download pdf) (2.5 MB)vertical_align_bottom