Carbon footprint of renewable diesel from palm oil, jatropha oil and rapeseed oil

Uusitalo, Ville; Väisänen, Sanni; Havukainen, Jouni; Havukainen, Minna; Soukka, Risto; Luoranen, Mika

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2014.03.020

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“…In the short term, the benefits of TL policies cannot be felt, hence these policies must be carried out in the long term to feel the benefits. According to Omri and Nguyen (2014), a 1% increase in trade openness can increase renewable energy consumption by 7.5%, which translates to a decrease in CO2 emissions by 0.2%, where this gas is one of the contributors to GHG that causes an increase in the earth's surface temperature (Uusitalo 2014). TL decisions can be used to promote the trading of renewable energy sources which will later have an impact on increase in consumptionand market share, as well as the efficiency of their use (Murshed 2019 The elasticity between trade openness and renewable energy is less elastic (Murshed 2019).…”

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India’s Tariff on CPO and CPO Price: Why Tariff Matters More than Price on Indonesia’s CPO

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Palm oil and its derivatives are one of Indonesia's prominent export commodities on the global market. India is one of the main biggest export destinations of Indonesia's CPO, thus every trade policy taken by India regarding CPO is important to Indonesia's trade balance. This study has found that tariff imposed by India on Indonesia's CPO has an elastic relationship compared to the CPO price. Moreover, this study found that changes in tariff are likely to significantly affect Indonesia's CPO export to India, compared to CPO price. Increase in price does not affect Indonesia's CPO export to India since it has inelastic relationship; as such the percentage of change in quantity does not exceed the change of price percentage.

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India’s Tariff on CPO and CPO Price: Why Tariff Matters More than Price on Indonesia’s CPO

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“…Direct LUC emissions and guidelines are also included in the Renewable Energy Directive of the European Union, with which minimum rate of direct GHG emission savings (35% in 2009 and rising to 50% in 2017) for biofuels consumed in the EU have to comply. LUC emissions can form a significant share of the total GHG emissions of the biofuels under study [46]. Therefore, in order to obtain a more accurate estimates of the climate impact differences between these energy production routes it is important to include LUC GHG emissions in the calculations, especially when the emission reduction potentials of biofuels from different feedstocks are discussed.…”

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Carbon footprint of biobutanol by ABE fermentation from corn and sugarcane

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a b s t r a c tThis article focuses on the saving potential of butanol as regards greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is known that butanol can be used as a biofuel to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions from transport and that butanol may overcome blend wall limitations better than ethanol. However, the GHG emissions of butanol are not well known. The study is based on two case studies: corn butanol production in the USA and sugarcane butanol production in Brazil. Results obtained for GHG emissions show 79e122 g CO2Àeq /MJ for corn butanol and e55d18 g CO2Àeq /MJ for sugarcane butanol. Our results suggest that in the cases studied, producing butanol from corn (with the current cultivation and process practices) does not lead to GHG emission savings. On the other hand, producing butanol from sugarcane seems to have potential for GHG emission reductions in certain conditions. We highlight the differences between these two production chains and discuss how GHG emissions from these biofuel chains could be reduced.

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“…Among all these products, soybean biodiesel has a high international demand and its environmental impact receives extensive attention by the EU, USA and UN [8–10]. Similar assessments have been conducted for soybean biodiesel [37,38] and biodiesels derived from other feedstock, such as rapeseed, jatropha and palm in EU [39]. All these studies have shown significant reduction in GHG emission compared to fossil fuels.…”

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Assessing the greenhouse gas emissions of Brazilian soybean biodiesel production

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Soybean biodiesel (B100) has been playing an important role in Brazilian energy matrix towards the national bio-based economy. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is the most widely used indicator for assessing the environmental sustainability of biodiesels and received particular attention among decision makers in business and politics, as well as consumers. Former studies have been mainly focused on the GHG emissions from the soybean cultivation, excluding other stages of the biodiesel production. Here, we present a holistic view of the total GHG emissions in four life cycle stages for soybean biodiesel. The aim of this study was to assess the GHG emissions of Brazilian soybean biodiesel production system with an integrated life cycle approach of four stages: agriculture, extraction, production and distribution. Allocation of mass and energy was applied and special attention was paid to the integrated and non-integrated industrial production chain. The results indicated that the largest source of GHG emissions, among four life cycle stages, is the agricultural stage (42–51%) for B100 produced in integrated systems and the production stage (46–52%) for B100 produced in non-integrated systems. Integration of industrial units resulted in significant reduction in life cycle GHG emissions. Without the consideration of LUC and assuming biogenic CO2 emissions is carbon neutral in our study, the calculated life cycle GHG emissions for domestic soybean biodiesel varied from 23.1 to 25.8 gCO2eq. MJ-1 B100 and those for soybean biodiesel exported to EU ranged from 26.5 to 29.2 gCO2eq. MJ-1 B100, which represent reductions by 65% up to 72% (depending on the delivery route) of GHG emissions compared with the EU benchmark for diesel fuel. Our findings from a life cycle perspective contributed to identify the major GHG sources in Brazilian soybean biodiesel production system and they can be used to guide mitigation priority for policy and decision-making. Projected scenarios in this study would be taken as references for accounting the environmental sustainability of soybean biodiesel within a domestic and global level.

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Carbon footprint of renewable diesel from palm oil, jatropha oil and rapeseed oil

Cited by 59 publications

References 21 publications

India’s Tariff on CPO and CPO Price: Why Tariff Matters More than Price on Indonesia’s CPO

India’s Tariff on CPO and CPO Price: Why Tariff Matters More than Price on Indonesia’s CPO

Carbon footprint of biobutanol by ABE fermentation from corn and sugarcane

Assessing the greenhouse gas emissions of Brazilian soybean biodiesel production

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