A data engineering approach for sustainable chemical end-of-life management
Abstract
The presence of chemicals causing significant adverse human health and environmental effects during end-of-life (EoL) stages is a challenge for implementing sustainable management efforts and transitioning towards a safer circular life cycle. Conducting chemical risk evaluation and exposure assessment of potential EoL scenarios can help understand the chemical EoL management chain for its safer utilization in a circular life-cycle environment. However, the first step is to track the chemical flows, estimate releases, and potential exposure pathways. Hence, this work proposes an EoL data engineering approach to perform chemical flow analysis and screening to support risk evaluation and exposure assessment for designing a safer circular life cycle of chemicals. This work uses publicly-available data to identify potential post-recycling scenarios (e.g., industrial processing/use operations), estimate inter-industry chemical transfers, and exposure pathways to chemicals of interest. Furthermore, a case study demonstration shows how the data engineering framework identifies, estimates, and tracks chemical flow transfers from EoL stage facilities (e.g., recycling and recovery) to upstream chemical life cycle stage facilities (e.g., manufacturing). Also, the proposed framework considers current regulatory constraints on closing the recycling loop operations and provides a range of values for the flow allocated to post-recycling uses associated with occupational exposure andmore »
- Authors:
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- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cincinnati, OH (United States); University of Salamanca (Spain)
- University of Salamanca (Spain)
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cincinnati, OH (United States); University of Atlántico, Puerto Colombia (Colombia)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1981741
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1868689
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0014664
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Resources, Conservation and Recycling
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 178; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0921-3449
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Circular life cycle; End-of-life management chain; Chemical flow analysis; Data pipeline
Citation Formats
Hernandez-Betancur, Jose D., Martin, Mariano, and Ruiz-Mercado, Gerardo J. A data engineering approach for sustainable chemical end-of-life management. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106040.
Hernandez-Betancur, Jose D., Martin, Mariano, & Ruiz-Mercado, Gerardo J. A data engineering approach for sustainable chemical end-of-life management. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106040
Hernandez-Betancur, Jose D., Martin, Mariano, and Ruiz-Mercado, Gerardo J. Tue .
"A data engineering approach for sustainable chemical end-of-life management". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106040. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1981741.
@article{osti_1981741,
title = {A data engineering approach for sustainable chemical end-of-life management},
author = {Hernandez-Betancur, Jose D. and Martin, Mariano and Ruiz-Mercado, Gerardo J.},
abstractNote = {The presence of chemicals causing significant adverse human health and environmental effects during end-of-life (EoL) stages is a challenge for implementing sustainable management efforts and transitioning towards a safer circular life cycle. Conducting chemical risk evaluation and exposure assessment of potential EoL scenarios can help understand the chemical EoL management chain for its safer utilization in a circular life-cycle environment. However, the first step is to track the chemical flows, estimate releases, and potential exposure pathways. Hence, this work proposes an EoL data engineering approach to perform chemical flow analysis and screening to support risk evaluation and exposure assessment for designing a safer circular life cycle of chemicals. This work uses publicly-available data to identify potential post-recycling scenarios (e.g., industrial processing/use operations), estimate inter-industry chemical transfers, and exposure pathways to chemicals of interest. Furthermore, a case study demonstration shows how the data engineering framework identifies, estimates, and tracks chemical flow transfers from EoL stage facilities (e.g., recycling and recovery) to upstream chemical life cycle stage facilities (e.g., manufacturing). Also, the proposed framework considers current regulatory constraints on closing the recycling loop operations and provides a range of values for the flow allocated to post-recycling uses associated with occupational exposure and fugitive air releases from EoL operations.},
doi = {10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106040},
journal = {Resources, Conservation and Recycling},
number = C,
volume = 178,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Tue Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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