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Sustainability of methylic and ethylic biodiesel production routes : social and environmental impacts via multi-criteria and principal component analyses using Brazilian case studies /

Sustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes: Social and Environmental Impacts via Multi-criteria and Principal Component Analyses using Brazilian Case Studies presents an innovative, quantitative methodology for the assessment of the social and environmental sustainability of...

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Main Authors: Interlenghi, Stefano Ferrari (Author), Medeiros, José Luiz de (Author), Araujo, Ofelia de Queiroz Fernandes (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Woodhead Publishing, [2023]
Series:Woodhead series in bioenergy
Subjects:
Biodiesel fuels.
Biodiesel fuels industry > Environmental aspects.
Biodiesel.
Biodiesel > Industrie > Aspect de l'environnement.
Biodiesel fuels
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Sustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 Biodiesel production chain: an introduction
  • 1.1 Biodiesel
  • 1.1.1 Biodiesel tribology aspects
  • 1.1.2 Comparison of biodiesels
  • 1.1.3 Biodiesel versus diesel
  • 1.2 Biodiesel production process
  • 1.3 Biodiesel industry in the world
  • 1.4 Biodiesel industry in Brazil
  • 1.5 Final remarks
  • 2 Biodiesel production chain: sustainability and metrics
  • 2.1 Environmental sustainability
  • 2.2 Economic sustainability
  • 2.3 Social sustainability
  • 2.3.1 Food versus fuel
  • 2.4 Sustainability assessments
  • 2.4.1 Single sustainability indicator
  • 2.5 Biodiesel assessments in the literature
  • 3 Methods
  • 3.1 Scope, objective, and system boundaries
  • 3.2 Environmental data assumptions and sources
  • 3.3 Social data assumptions and sources
  • 3.3.1 Annual Report on Social Information
  • 3.3.2 Workplace Accident Statistical Yearbook
  • 3.3.3 Road unions
  • 3.3.4 Forced labor cases
  • 3.4 Sustainability indicators
  • 3.4.1 Sustainability metrics
  • 3.4.2 Auxiliary indicators
  • 3.4.3 Green-design criteria
  • 3.5 Multicriteria analysis
  • 3.5.1 Quantitative data normalization
  • 3.5.2 Calculating the sustainability degree and criticality factor
  • 3.5.3 Calculating criticality contribution
  • 3.6 Principal component analysis
  • 4 Fatty acid methyl ester and fatty acid ethyl ester inventories and sustainability indicators
  • 4.1 Inventory matrix compilation
  • 4.1.1 Soybean agriculture inventory
  • 4.1.2 Soybean milling and refining inventory
  • 4.1.3 Methanol production inventory
  • 4.1.4 Sugarcane agriculture inventory
  • 4.1.5 Ethanol production inventory
  • 4.1.6 Transportation inventory
  • 4.1.7 Transesterification inventory
  • 4.2 Sustainability Metrics
  • 4.2.1 Income gap of process.
  • 4.2.2 Average wage
  • 4.2.3 Forced labor cases
  • 4.2.4 Workforce
  • 4.2.5 Accident rate
  • 4.2.6 Combustion energy potential
  • 4.2.7 Energy intensity
  • 4.2.8 Energy factor
  • 4.2.9 Land use intensity
  • 4.2.10 Water intensity
  • 4.2.11 Carbon intensity
  • 4.3 Auxiliary indicators
  • 5 Sustainability assessment
  • 5.1 Multicriteria analysis
  • 5.1.1 Estimating missing data
  • 5.1.2 Criticality factor and sustainability degree
  • 5.1.3 Sustainability metrics' severity contribution
  • 5.1.4 Sensitivity analysis
  • 5.2 Principal component analysis
  • 5.2.1 Green-design criteria principal components
  • 5.2.2 Sustainability metrics principal components
  • 5.2.3 Sensitivity analysis
  • 5.2.4 Two-way cluster analysis
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix A Microdata extraction through R
  • Appendix B MATLAB® code for multicriteria sustainability assessment and principal component analysis
  • Appendix C FAME chain inventory
  • Appendix D FAEE chain inventory
  • Index
  • Back Cover.