The critical role of advanced sustainability assessment tools in enhancing the real-world application of biofuels

• Autorzy: Tabatabaei Meisam , Aghbashlo Mortaza

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.32933/ActaInnovations.37.6

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Sustainability has become of paramount importance in the biofuel industry. Accordingly, various ‎sustainability assessment schemes such as emergy analysis, techno-economic analysis, life ‎cycle ‎assessment, energy accounting, and exergy analysis and its extensions (exergoeconomic, ‎exergoenvironmental, and ‎exergoeconoenvironmental analyses) are being employed increasingly for decision-‎making on biofuel production and consumption systems. In this opinion paper, after classifying ‎and describing biofuel generations, the developed sustainability assessment tools are critically ‎explained, and their pros and cons are discussed. Overall, among the various sustainability assessment approaches introduced so far, exergy-based methods appear to be ‎the most promising tools for developing ‎sustainable biofuel systems. This can be attributed to the fact that the exergy ‎concept is deeply ‎rooted in the well-defined principles of thermodynamics.‎

Słowa kluczowe

EN

biofuels; sustainability; exergy; emergy; life cycle assessment; decision-making

PL

biopaliwa; rozwój zrównoważony; egzergia; ocena cyklu życia; podejmowanie decyzji

• Wydawca: Centrum Badań i Innowacji Pro-Akademia ; Ukrainian Academy of Sciences - Research and Development Centre for Industrial Problems of Development
• Czasopismo: Acta Innovations
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: no. 37
• Strony: 67--73
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 31 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Tabatabaei Meisam

• Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
• Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam), Terengganu, Malaysia
• Microbial Biotechnology Department, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

autor

Aghbashlo Mortaza

• Department of Mechanical Engineering of Agricultural Machinery, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

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