Environmental damage costs linked to Hydrofobes raw materials
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2020
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Rattanakoch, Oraphitchaya
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Industries play a major role to the environmental issues we are facing for the past decade and the most frequently used of industrial products is general household cleaning product. Nouryon Company cooperated with IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is working on a project to discover the innovative production to enhance sustainability and environmental friendly product. Hence, one strategy to mitigate the environmental impact is changing the raw material source from synthetic to biogenic resources.
This study is focused on investigating different raw materials. In total, four C10 compounds with hydrophobic properties will be assessed. The raw materials to be investigated are first, synthetic 2-propylheptanol. Second, Isodecyl alcohol, Third, is linear synthetic C10 alcohol. And the last one is Natural C10 alcohol from palm kernel, this fatty alcohol is derived from the plant sources which remain a largescale feed stock. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) will be performed to see which one of the four raw materials are environmentally preferable by analyzing the environmental impacts and environmental damage cost.
According to the results, biogenic hydrofob provided higher environmental impact and environmental damage cost than the synthetic one because of the agricultural stages (preparation of land use and using fertilizer). For the synthetic hydrofob, the major drivers of the environmental impact and environmental damage costs are from carbon dioxide emission and crude oil used as a resource.
The aspects that can be considered to reduce the environmental issues for hydrofob raw material production are using RSPO-certified palm oil instead of non-certified palm oil, recirculating aluminium powder in the production of linear synthesis C10 alcohol since it is the second largest environmental impact contributor. And studying on different approach to renewable sourcing for route of ethylene because a lot of synthetic route included utilizing pf ethylene.
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Hydrofob , Fatty alcohol , Surfactant for cleaning product , Life Cycle Assessment , Environmental Priority Strategies (EPS)