Jennifer Cain's research while affiliated with University of California, Berkeley and other places

Publications (2)

Article
Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is increasingly seen as a way for society to enjoy the benefits of fossil fuel energy sources while avoiding the climate disruption associated with fossil CO2 emissions. A decision to deploy CCS technology at scale should be based on robust information on its overall costs and benefits. Life-cycle assessment...
Article
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) should be used to assist carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) planners to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and avoid unintended environmental trade-offs. LCA is an analytical framework for determining environmental impacts resulting from processes, products, and services. All life cycle stages are evaluated includ...

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... There are different techniques how analyse, estimate, forecast and finally reduce negative impacts of waste to the nature and humanity particularly and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of them. LCA techniques (Beemsterboer et al., 2020) have been developed to enable such evaluations, and they have become increasingly important for identifying the most environmentally friendly options for products and materials (Sathre, 2011). Thanks to different instruments in comprehensive databases (GaBi, SimaPro, openLCA, EASETECH and other software) we can find and calculate different impacts on the environment and humans as well, which can be used for further development in order to minimize adverse effects to the nature. ...
... Among others, the midpoint categories that were examined were ozone depletion (kg CFC-11 eq.), global warming (kg CO 2 eq.), carcinogenic (CTUh), respiratory impact (kg PM2.5 eq.), ecotoxicity (CTUe), and fossil fuel depletion (MJ surplus). The researchers argued that the energy penalty, functional units, and scalability among other topics are the main limitations and challenges that are overlooked in the capture and storage of carbon studies [176]. The obtained results suggested that carbon payback depends appreciably on the lifetime of the CNT-polyethyleneimine. ...