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 page Swiss Federal Office of Energy (project no. 100065)
external page Ciba Specialty Chemicals AG
external page EMS Dottikon AG
external page Hoffmann-La Roche AG
external page Lonza Group Ltd.
external page Novartis Pharma AG
external page Siegfried Ltd.
external page Valorec Services AG
external page Fachhochschule beider Basel
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 page Waste-Solvent Management as an Element of Green Chemistry: A Comprehensive Study on the Swiss Chemical Industry. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 45(22), 7700-7709
Capello, C, Hellweg, S, Badertscher, B, Hungerbühler, K. 2005: external page Life-Cycle Inventory of Waste Solvent Distillation: Statistical Analysis of Empirical Data. Environmental Science & Technology, 39 (15), 5885-5892.
Seyler, C, Hofstetter, TB, Hungerbühler, K. 2005: external page Life-Cycle Inventory for Thermal Treatment of Waste Solvemt in Chemical Industry: A Multi-Input Allocation Model. Journal of Cleaner Production 13 (13-14) 1211-1224.
Hellweg, S, Fischer, U, Scheringer, M, Hungerbühler, K. 2004: external page Environmental Assessment of Chemicals: Methods and Applications to a Case Study of Organic Solvents. Green Chemistry 6 (08), 418-427.
Seyler, C, Hellweg, S, Monteil, M, Hungerbühler, K. 2004: external page Life Cycle Inventory for Use of Waste Solvents as Fuel Substitute in the Cement Industry: A Multi-Input Allocation Model. 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 page Environmentally Preferable Treatment Options For Industrial Waste Solvent Management: A Case Study of a Toluene Containing Waste solvent. Trans IChemE (81) 3, 189-202
Hofstetter, T.B., Capello, C., Hungerbühler, K. 2003: external page Ein ökologischer Vergleich der Verbrennung und Rektifikation von Abfalllösungsmitteln. 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)