Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products

Over the past decade, renewables-based technology and sustainability assessment methods have grown tremendously. Renewable energy and products have a significant role in the market today, and the same time sustainability assessment methods have advanced, with a growing standardization of environmental sustainability metrics and consideration of social issues as part of the assessment.

Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Stud ies is an extensive update and sequel to the 2006 title Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment . It discusses the impressive evolution and role renewables have taken in our modern society, highlighting the importance of sustainability principles in the design phase of renewable-based technologies, and presenting a wide range of sustainability assessment methods suitable for renewables-based technologies, together with case studies to demonstrate their applications.

This book is a valuable resource for academics, businesses and policy makers who are active in contributing to more sustainable production and consumption.

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• The growing role of renewables in our society
• Sustainability in the design phase of products and processes
• Principles of sustainability assessment
• Land use analysis
• Water use analysis
• Material and energy flow analysis
• Exergy and cumulative exergy analysis
• Carbon and environmental footprint methods
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), social Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
• Case studies: renewable energy, bio-based chemicals and bio-based materials.

Auteur

Prof. Dr. Jo Dewulf, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, JRC, European Commision, Italy and Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Belgium
Professor Dewulf performs research in the areas of environmental chemistry, environmental technology and clean technology at Ghent University. Since December 2013, he has been working as a senior researcher in the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the Joint Research Institute of the European Commission. Key in his work is managing natural resources in a technically efficient way, performing thermodynamics based sustainability analysis at process, plant and cradle-to-gate level to support the development and assessment of new technologies.

Supported by:

Dr Steven De Meester, Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Belgium
Dr De Meester works on the development of sustainability assessment methodologies for new technologies and applications of Life Cycle Assessment in industry.

Dr Rodrigo Alvarenga, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Échantillon de lecture
List of Contributors

Rodrigo A.F. Alvarenga
Departamento de Engenharia Ambiental, Centro de Ciências Agroveterinárias (CAV), Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC); and EnCiclo Soluções Sustentáveis, Brazil

Fulvio Ardente
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Italy

Gudni Axelsson
Environment and Natural Resources, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Institute of Sustainability Studies, University of Iceland; and Geothermal Training Department, Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR), Iceland

Markus Berger
Chair of Sustainable Engineering, TU Berlin, Germany

Antonio Bonomi
Brazilian Center of Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Brazil

Michael Borucke
Global Footprint Network, U.S.A.

Henk Bosch
DSM Corporate Operations & Responsible Care, The Netherlands

Miguel Brandão
International Energy Agency, IEA Bioenergy Task 38, Portugal

Patrizia Buttol
ENEA, LCA and Ecodesign Laboratory, Italy

Otavio Cavalett
Brazilian Center of Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Brazil

Maurizio Cellura
Dipartimento dell'Energia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Mateus F. Chagas
Brazilian Center of Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Brazil

Andreas Ciroth
GreenDelta, Germany

Brynhildur Davidsdottir
Environment and Natural Resources, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Institute of Sustainability Studies, University of Iceland, Iceland

Jo Dewulf
Research Group ENVOC, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department of Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Belgium; and Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy

Jean-Pierre Duda
ROQUETTE, Group Industrial Development Department, France

Pauline Feschet
INRA, UMR LAE Nancy-Colmar, France

Koichi Fujie
Institute of Advanced Science, Yokohama National University, Japan

Alessandro Galli
Global Footprint Network, International Environment House 2, Switzerland

Charles Gordon
BRITEST Ltd, The Heath, UK

Maarten van der Graaf
DSM Biotechnology Center, The Netherlands

Nicole Grunewald
Global Footprint Network, International Environment House 2, Switzerland

Helmut Haberl
Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria; and Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Geoffrey P. Hammond
Department of Mechanical Engineering; and Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (ISEE), University of Bath, UK

Udin Hasanudin
Department of Agricultural Technology, University of Lampung, Indonesia

Jutta Hildenbrand
GreenDelta, Germany

Karin Höglmeier
Holzforschung München, Chair of Wood Science, Technische Universität München, Germany

Jeroen den Hollander
DSM Biotechnology Center, The Netherlands

Zdenek Hruska
Solvin, Belgium

Sofie Huysman
Research Group ENVOC, Ghent University, Belgium

Katsunori Iha
Global Footprint Network, U.S.A.

Nathalie Iofrida
Department of Agriculture (AGRARIA), Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Philipp-Maximilian Jacob
Department of Chemical E

Contenu

List of Contributors xvii

Series Editor's Preface xxiii

Preface xxvii

1 The Growing Role of Biomass for Future Resource SupplyProspects and Pitfalls 1
Helmut Haberl

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Global Ecological and Socioeconomic Biomass Flows 3

1.3 Global Biomass Potentials in 2050 5

1.4 Critical Socio?-Ecological Feedbacks and Sustainability Issues 9

1.5 Conclusions 12

Acknowledgements 12

References 13

2 The Growing Role of Photovoltaic Solar, Wind and Geothermal Energy as Renewables for Electricity Generation 19
W.G.J.H.M. van Sark, J.G. Schepers, and J.D.A.M. van Wees

2.1 General Introduction 19

2.2 Photovoltaic Solar Energy 21

2.3 Wind Energy 24

2.4 Geothermal Energy 28

2.5 Conclusion 33

References 34

3 Assessment of Sustainability within Holistic Process Design 37
Alexei Lapkin, Philipp?]Maximilian Jacob, Polina Yaseneva, Charles Gordon, and Amy Peace

3.1 Introduction: Holistic Process Design from Unit Operations to Systems Science Methods 37

3.2 Use of Life Cycle Assessment in Holistic Process Design 40

3.3 A Decision?-Tree Methodology for Complex Process Design 41

3.4 Generation of New Synthesis Routes in Bio?-Based Supply Chains 45

3.5 Conclusions 47

Acknowledgements 48

References 48

4 A Mass Balance Approach to Link Sustainable Renewable Resources in Chemical Synthesis with Market Demand 51
Claudius Kormann and Andreas Kicherer

4.1 Introduction 51

4.2 Renew…