A multi-criteria decision support tool for biorefinery siting: Using economic, environmental, and social metrics for a refined siting analysis

Martinkus, Natalie; Latta, Gregory S.; Rijkhoff, Sanne A. M.; Mueller, Daniel; Hoard, Season; Sasatani, Daisuke; Pierobon, Francesca; Wolcott, Michael P.

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2019.105330

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“…One of the approaches to address the drawback of standalone AHP as discussed in the previous paragraph, is Integrated AHP. However, from the selected articles, if the emphasis is on biorefinery site selection, supplier selection and energy management, the only required MCA is standalone AHP for alternative ranking (How & Lam, 2018;Martinkus et. al., 2019b;Yang et al, 2019).…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Criteria Analysis Model Methods on Sustainability Weighting for Ethanol Plant

Halim¹,

Radzi²,

Kasim³

et al. 2021

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The sustainability weighting is crucial as it is practically implemented into sustainability evaluation, especially in industrial development. Sustainability is about the interconnection between three aspects of sustainability impact such as economic impact, environmental impact, and social impact. Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) model play important roles to measure the weighting for each impact according to the scenario and criteria selected based on scientific rules and robust statistical methods. However, there were insufficient studies on the existing literature sustainability weighting model from MCA method for the ethanol plant. Hence, the present paper demonstrates a systematic literature review of MCA model methods on sustainability weighting for the ethanol plant. There are two steps involved in systematic literature reviews: formulation of the research question and systematic searching strategies consisting of identification, screening, eligibility, quality appraisal, data abstraction and analysis. The review is based on leading databases; Scopus – ScienceDirect, Springer, Taylor and Francis, and one supporting database – Google Scholar. From the review, the preferable MCA weighting model for sustainability evaluation of ethanol plants is ‘integrated Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)’ rather than ‘standalone AHP’. The paper offered a significant contribution to the body of knowledge and sustainability evaluation purposes.

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“…In biorefinery plants, most past researchers discuss the system of sustainability with focus on biomass supply chains, site selection, biomass process in biorefinery site and sustainability assessment methodologies (How & Lam, 2018;Jeong & Ramírez-Gómez, 2018a;Jesus et. al., 2019a;Martinkus et. al., 2019a;.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Criteria Analysis Model Methods on Sustainability Weighting for Ethanol Plant

Halim¹,

Radzi²,

Kasim³

et al. 2021

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“…De acordo com Martinkus et al (2019), uma ferramenta de suporte à decisão multicritério (DST) que incorpora métricas econômicas, ambientais e sociais, simultaneamente, é introduzida para avaliar o potencial de reaproveitamento de instalações existentes como uma biorrefinaria baseada em madeira. Os critérios de localização econômica são representados por componentes do custo operacional (biorrefinaria) que variam geoespacialmente.…”

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Sustentabilidade Organizacional E Suas Métricas: Revisão Sistemática Utilizando O Método Prisma

Stefani

Delgado

2021

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São diversos os benefícios da utilização de indicadores e métricas de sustentabilidade organizacional,e referem-se à possível antecipação de condições e tendências, fornecimento de avisos de possíveis ocorrências e situações que evitem danos aos aspectos econômico, social e ambiental e auxílio nos processos de gestão. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as métricas de sustentabilidade organizacional, identificadas na literatura acadêmica nos últimos cinco anos. Seguindo a metodologia PRISMA, foram relacionadas sete pesquisas relevantes e enquadradas nos critérios de seleção. As principais contribuições, por meio da revisão sistemática, apontaram para estudos compostos de diferentes aspectos (empresas, cidades, regiões) ligados à sustentabilidade. Foram diversas métricas identificadas, algumas focando mais aspectos sociais da população e ou funcionários e outras mais os aspectos ambientais e seus impactos na sociedade e nas organizações. As limitações do estudo são decorrentes do método escolhido que considerou os últimos cinco anos na base Scopus e artigos completos em inglês.

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“…Although the social sphere can be the furthest aspect to be influenced/addressed since the design stage of a biorefinery [13], job generation and the offer of alternatives are the most inherent elements that can be related to the design. However, in recent years, multiple methodologies and indicators have been developed to perform social life cycle assessment of processes in order to decrease the gap between technical and social aspects of processes [13][14][15]. Beneath the three previous elements underlies the technical assessment as the base tool for the design, which requires the consideration of important aspects that can have a direct impact of the process sustainability such as an intensive use of the feedstock, the energy performance, and the process scale.…”

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A Review on the Feedstocks for the Sustainable Production of Bioactive Compounds in Biorefineries

Serna-Loaiza

Miltner

et al. 2019

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Since 2015, the sustainable development goals of the United Nations established a route map to achieve a sustainable society, pushing the industry to aim for sustainable processes. Biorefineries have been studied as the technological scheme to process integrally renewable resources. The so-called “bioactive” compounds (BACs) have been of high interest, given their high added value and potential application in pharmaceutics and health, among others. However, there are still elements to be addressed to consider them as economic drivers of sustainable processes. First, BACs can be produced from many sources and it is important to identify feedstocks for this purpose. Second, a sustainable production process should also consider valorizing the remaining components. Finally, feedstock availability plays an important role in affecting the process scale, logistics, and feasibility. This work consists of a review on the feedstocks for the sustainable production of BACs in biorefineries, covering the type of BAC, composition, and availability. Some example biorefineries are proposed using wheat straw, hemp and grapevine shoots. As a main conclusion, multiple raw materials have the potential to obtain BACs that can become economic drivers of biorefineries. This is an interesting outlook, as the integral use of the feedstocks may not only allow obtaining different types of BACs, but also other fiber products and energy for the process self-supply.

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A multi-criteria decision support tool for biorefinery siting: Using economic, environmental, and social metrics for a refined siting analysis

Cited by 41 publications

References 28 publications

A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Criteria Analysis Model Methods on Sustainability Weighting for Ethanol Plant

A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Criteria Analysis Model Methods on Sustainability Weighting for Ethanol Plant

Sustentabilidade Organizacional E Suas Métricas: Revisão Sistemática Utilizando O Método Prisma

A Review on the Feedstocks for the Sustainable Production of Bioactive Compounds in Biorefineries

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