𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: Life cycle assessment for sustainability assessment of biofuels and bioproducts
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑; 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟏𝟎; 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟏; 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝟏𝟖𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟖𝟏𝟓
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: Shabbir H. Gheewala
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥'𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭: [ Ссылка ]
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𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁:
Life cycle assessment has been used for the environmental sustainability assessment of biomass-based fuels and products. It provides a rigorous and scientific assessment by considering the entire product life cycle and multiple impact categories to avoid problem shifting between life cycle stages and between impact categories, which can often occur when focusing on a single life cycle stage or impact category. However, despite its widespread use, there still remain methodological challenges related, among other things, to system boundaries, functional units, allocation, and carbon accounting. These issues are summarized and the current state-of-the-art vis-à-vis these issues are discussed in a Perspective article entitled “Life cycle assessment for sustainability assessment of biofuels and bioproducts”. Overall, it is concluded that biofuels and bioproducts have advantages over their fossil-based counterparts in terms of environmental impacts, these should be thoroughly investigated using sustainability assessment tools though. Thus, they will play an important role in a sustainable energy transition towards net zero. This paper has been published in the March 2023 issue of Biofuel Research Journal, and we would like to invite you to read the full paper for free, on the journal’s website at www.biofueljournal.com.
