Alicia Valero
Biographic Data
| ID | 6387264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Valero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Valero |
| SIGNATURE | VALERO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | CIRCE - Centro Tecnológico |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3330-1793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Squaring the circle of the circular economy. The need to properly account for scarcity to guide mineral resource management
Vehicles and Critical Raw Materials
The changing material composition of cars represents a challenge for future recycling of end‐of‐life vehicles (ELVs). Particularly, as current recycling targets are based solely on mass, critical metals increasingly used in cars might be lost during recycling processes, due to their small mass compared to bulk metals such as Fe and Al. We investigate a complementary indicator to material value in passenger vehicles based on exergy. The indicator …
Thermodynamic Approach to Evaluate the Criticality of Raw Materials and Its Application through a Material Flow Analysis in Europe
This paper makes a review of current raw material criticality assessment methodologies and proposes a new approach based on the second law of thermodynamics. This is because conventional methods mostly focus on supply risk and economic importance leaving behind relevant factors, such as the physical quality of substances. The new approach is proposed as an additional dimension for the criticality assessment of raw materials through a variable den…
How can strategic metals drive the economy? Tungsten and tin production in Spain during periods of war
From Grave to Cradle
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a promising tool in the pursuit of sustainable mining. However, the accounting methodologies used in LCA for abiotic resource depletion still have some shortcomings and need to be improved. In this article a new thermodynamic approach is presented for the evaluation of the depletion of nonfuel minerals. The method is based on quantifying the exergy costs required to replace the extracted minerals with current availa…
From Grave to Cradle
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a promising tool in the pursuit of sustainable mining. However, the accounting methodologies used in LCA for abiotic resource depletion still have some shortcomings and need to be improved. In this article a new thermodynamic approach is presented for the evaluation of the depletion of nonfuel minerals. The method is based on quantifying the exergy costs required to replace the extracted minerals with current availa…
Vehicles and Critical Raw Materials
The changing material composition of cars represents a challenge for future recycling of end‐of‐life vehicles (ELVs). Particularly, as current recycling targets are based solely on mass, critical metals increasingly used in cars might be lost during recycling processes, due to their small mass compared to bulk metals such as Fe and Al. We investigate a complementary indicator to material value in passenger vehicles based on exergy. The indicator …
Thermodynamic Approach to Evaluate the Criticality of Raw Materials and Its Application through a Material Flow Analysis in Europe
This paper makes a review of current raw material criticality assessment methodologies and proposes a new approach based on the second law of thermodynamics. This is because conventional methods mostly focus on supply risk and economic importance leaving behind relevant factors, such as the physical quality of substances. The new approach is proposed as an additional dimension for the criticality assessment of raw materials through a variable den…
How can strategic metals drive the economy? Tungsten and tin production in Spain during periods of war
Squaring the circle of the circular economy. The need to properly account for scarcity to guide mineral resource management
Extraction and Separation Processes (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Exergy (3 works) · Industrial ecology (3 works) · Raw material (3 works) · Sustainability (3 works) · Waste management (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works)