Assessing the global sustainability of different electricity generation systems

Barros, Juan José Cartelle; Coira, Manuel Lara; Cruz, M. Pilar de la; Cano, Alfredo

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2015.05.110

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“…The MIVES method has already been used as an MCDM method in various heterogeneous fields: buildings and components (Pons and Aguado, 2012;Pons and de la Fuente, 2013;Reyes et al 2014;San-Jose and Cuadrado, 2010;San-Jose and Garrucho, 2010), tunnel infrastructure (de la Fuente et al, 2017b;Ormazabal et al, 2008), hydraulic structures (de la Pardo and Aguado, 2014), electricity generation systems and infrastructure (Cartelle et al, 2015;de la Fuente et al, 2017a), and even post-disaster housing management (Hosseini et al, 2015(Hosseini et al, , 2016. MIVES is also included in the current Spanish Structural Concrete Code (CPH, 2008) for assessing the sustainability of concrete structures (Aguado et al, 2012).…”

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Sustainability of Column-Supported RC Slabs: Fiber Reinforcement as an Alternative

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Casanovas-Rubio

Pons

et al. 2019

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Fibre-reinforced concrete has been used in structures without any additional reinforcement when the design is determined by transient load stages (precast segments for tunnels), in elements with favourable boundary conditions, and in structures subjected to low load levels (pavements or pipes). Recently, the material has been used as the primary reinforcement in elements with greater structural responsibility, such as building column-supported slabs. Several dozen buildings have incorporated this new technology, and research is being conducted on how to optimise the design whilst guaranteeing the required reliability levels. However, in some cases, fibres have not been used as the primary reinforcement in concrete slabs for economic reasons. In most cases, the solution is compared with existing alternatives (traditionally reinforced concrete) considering only the direct material costs and disregarding indirect costs, social aspects and environmental factors. The building construction sector lacks sustainability rating tools to assess structural components separately (e.g. columns, floors, panels, façades). This paper presents a new method that can be used to assess the sustainability of concrete slabs by means of a multi-criteria decision-making approach including fibre-reinforced concrete. To this end, it uses rigorous analyses of current concrete slab technologies and sustainability assessment tools. Criteria, indicators, weights and value functions have been specifically selected, defined and calibrated for this research.

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Section: Background Of Mivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability of Column-Supported RC Slabs: Fiber Reinforcement as an Alternative

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Casanovas-Rubio

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et al. 2019

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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“…; Yu and Halog ), conventional (Shih and Tseng ), and/or nuclear energy alternatives (Cartelle Barros et al. ; Klein and Whalley ; Maxim ; Santoyo‐Castelazo and Azapagic ; Stamford and Azapagic ). The social impacts of water, sewage, and other systems are less frequently investigated in research related to utilities (Lehmann et al.…”

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“…(Cartelle Barros et al. ; Santoyo‐Castelazo and Azapagic ) toward quantitatively measuring local morbidity and human health depreciation (measured by disability adjusted life years [DALY]; e.g., Baumann et al. []; Stamford and Azapagic []).…”

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Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

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Hahn

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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Summary Industrial ecology (IE) and life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) are increasingly important in research, regulation, and corporate practice. However, the assessment of the social pillar is still at a developmental stage, because social life cycle assessment (SLCA) is fragmented and lacks a foundation on empirical experience. A critical reason is the absence of general standardized indicators that clearly reflect and measure businesses’ social impact along product life cycles and supply chains. Therefore, we systematically review trends, coherences, inconsistencies, and gaps in research on SLCA indicators across industry sectors. Overall, we find that researchers address a broad variety of sectors, but only few sectors receive sufficient empirical attention to draw reasonable conclusions while the field is additionally still largely an a‐theoretical one. Furthermore, researchers overlook important social core issues as they concentrate heavily on worker‐ and health‐related indicators. Therefore, we synthetize the most important indicators used in research as a step toward standardization (including critical challenges in applying these indicators and recommendations for their future development), highlight important trends and gaps (e.g., the focus on worker‐ and health‐related indicators and the a‐theoretical nature of the SLCA literature), and emphasize critical shortcomings in the SLCA field organized along the key phases of design, implementation, and evolution through which performance measurement approaches such as SLCA typically progress in their development and maturation. With this, we contribute to the maturation and establishment of the social pillar of LCSA and IE.

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“…The call for indicators aggregating different environmental mechanisms reflects the limits of considering many factors in decision making [38,39]. Further, environmental impacts are only one aspect of technologies, along with cost, ease of operation, reliability, etc.…”

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Health benefits, ecological threats of low-carbon electricity

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Hertwich

Arvesen

et al. 2017

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Stabilizing global temperature will require a shift to renewable or nuclear power from fossil power and the large-scale deployment of CO 2 capture and storage (CCS) for remaining fossil fuel use. Non-climate co-benefits of low-carbon energy technologies, especially reduced mortalities from air pollution and decreased ecosystem damage, have been important arguments for policies to reduce CO 2 emissions. Taking into account a wide range of environmental mechanisms and the complex interactions of the supply chains of different technologies, we conducted the first life cycle assessment of potential human health and ecological impacts of a global low-carbon electricity scenario. Our assessment indicates strong human health benefits of low-carbon electricity. For ecosystem quality, there is a significant trade-off between reduced pollution and climate impacts and potentially significant ecological impacts from land use associated with increased biopower utilization. Other renewables, nuclear power and CCS show clear ecological benefits, so that the climate mitigation scenario with a relatively low share of biopower has lower ecosystem impacts than the baseline scenario. Energy policy can maximize co-benefits by supporting other renewable and nuclear power and developing biomass supply from sources with low biodiversity impact.

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Assessing the global sustainability of different electricity generation systems

Cited by 106 publications

References 80 publications

Sustainability of Column-Supported RC Slabs: Fiber Reinforcement as an Alternative

Sustainability of Column-Supported RC Slabs: Fiber Reinforcement as an Alternative

Indicators in Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Review of Frameworks, Theories, and Empirical Experience

Health benefits, ecological threats of low-carbon electricity

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