Department of Green Chemistry and Technology

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Our research group at Ghent University Belgium works on environmental sustainability in terms of resource use. We have brought forward characterisation of natural resource use by a thermodynamic approach: the Cumulative Exergy Extraction from the Natural Environment / CEENE in the following papers:

  • J. Dewulf, M.E. Bösch, B. De Meester, G. Van Der Vorst, H. Van Langenhove, S. Hellweg, M.A.J. Huijbregts. Cumulative Exergy Extraction from the Natural Environment (CEENE): a comprehensive Life Cycle Impact Assessment method for resource accounting. Environmental Science and Technology 41(2007) 8477-8483.
  • R.A.F. Alvarenga, J. Dewulf, H. Van Langenhove, M.A.J. Huijbregts. Exergy-based accounting for land as a natural resource in life cycle assessment. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18 (2013) 939-947.
  • S. E. Taelman, S. De Meester, T. Schaubroeck, E. Sakshaug, R. A. F. Alvarenga, J. Dewulf. Accounting for the occupation of the marine environment as a natural resource in life cycle assessment: An exergy based approach. (2014) Resources Conservation and Recycling 91(2014) 1–10.

The CEENE method was recommended as the most appropriate method to quantify resource use based on thermodynamics by the paper of Berger et al., 2020.

For a full description of the CEENE method, and files to implement the CEENE in OpenLCA and SimaPro, please download the ZIP-file.