Improved Brewery Wastes Management Using Life Cycle Analysis
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2023-03
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UNIOSUN Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences,
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Abstract: Brewery is a major industrial activity in Nigeria from which wastes are generated. The
present global attention on effective wastes management in the sector has compelled the country to
embrace aggressive research methods on this essential subject matter. This has therefore been the
impetus for this study to use the Cradle-to-Grave section of Life cycle analysis in the ISO 14040
for investigation of improved wastes management in a Nigerian brewery. In the study, emissions
associated with brewery were identified and quantified to determine the releases into air, water and
land. Materials use, use of energy, wastes and by-products generation as well as physical size from
the sector were also determined for wastes management. The study shows that intensiveness of
energy and water consumption in brewery industry during productions could cause large emissions
that may have negative effects on the environment. Agreement of the material inputs and outputs
in the study at about 99.6% level indicates that the adopted method can be of great help in solving
wastes management problems in the brewery.
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Brewery; inventory; life cycle analysis; wastes; waste management.