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Sinter-Resistant Nickel Catalyst for Lignin Hydrogenolysis Achieved by Liquid Phase Atomic Layer Deposition of Alumina

Jeremy Luterbacher, Farzaneh Talebkeikhah, Songlan Sun

Lignin hydrogenolysis is a key step in the sustainable production of renewable bio-based chemicals and fuels. Heterogeneous metal catalysts have led to high yields but they rapidly deactivate, notably due to nanoparticle sintering and carbonaceous deposit ...

2023

2022 roadmap on low temperature electrochemical CO2 reduction

Ming Ma, Sophia Haussener, Ludmilla Steier, Raffaella Buonsanti, Xiaoyan Wang, Etienne Boutin, Xuan Liu

Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R) is an attractive option for storing renewable electricity and for the sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels. In this roadmap, we review recent progress in fundamental understanding, catalyst development ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Drivers and Barriers Toward Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Eating in Switzerland: Linking Impacts to Intentions and Practices

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Ralph Hansmann

Food consumption is among the activities with the most significant environmental impacts, and furthermore contributes to rising health costs. We explored the factors that foster or hinder healthy and sustainable eating in Switzerland. Based on an online ho ...

2022

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

Rachel Agnès Laetitia Rosemonde Marie Lacroix

The last few years have experienced the emergence of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), ultra-customization, and the explosion of demand for ethical, fair trade, and sustainable consumption. Organizations have therefore started a digital transformation of their SCs and ...

EPFL2021

Advances in heterogeneous catalysis for the synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers

Christophe Jean Baranowski

Our society is engaged in a major shift towards more sustainable industries. The required transition from fossils to renewable resources with low greenhouse gas emission is specifically challenging in the transportation sector where high thermal efficiency ...

EPFL2020

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

Franziska Meinherz, Rafael Laurenti

The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practi ...

2019

A combined hydrothermal gasification - solid oxide fuel cell system for sustainable production of algal biomass and energy

Jan Van Herle, François Maréchal, Christian Ludwig, Hossein Madi, Eya Nicodeme, Shivom Sharma

Hydrothermal gasification (HTG) is a promising technology that allows the recovery of nutrients from wet biomass with simultaneous production of an energy-rich gas. In this work, wastewater effluent (leachate) obtained from a composter sanitary system oper ...

2019

Discovery and Evaluation of Biosynthetic Pathways for the Production of Five Methyl Ethyl Ketone Precursors

Ljubisa Miskovic, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Noushin Hadadi, Meriç Ataman, Milenko Tokic

The limited supply of fossil fuels and the establishment of new environmental policies shifted research in industry and academia towards sustainable production of the 2nd generation of biofuels, with Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) being one promising fuel candi ...

2018

Increasing Efficiency of Fuel Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass by Process Integration

Martin Gassner, François Maréchal

The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol is currently one of the most popular options for sustainable production of transportation fuel from renewable resources. Due to the resistance of lignin compounds to biological degradation and the import ...

American Chemical Society2013

Benefits and Scepticism of Ecolabels as Accountability Mechanism

Ralf Seifert, Joana Maria Comas Marti

Environmental labelling is an accountability mechanism for firms to satisfy growing demands to prove that value chains are sustainably managed. Although the large variety of ecolabels available today can be interpreted as a sign of their success, it is ove ...

Emerald2012

En quête d'habitat : choix résidentiels et différenciation des modes de vie familiaux en Suisse

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

Integrated sustainability assessment for local projects : environmental impact and their connections with economic and social fields

Tourane Corbière

Introduction In 1987, the need to strive towards development aimed at making it possible to satisfy the present needs without compromising the needs of future generations is generally acknowledged. The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 propagated Agenda 211, whi ...

EPFL2005