Customised life cycle assessment tool for sugarcane (CaneLCA)—a development in the evaluation of alternative agricultural practices

Renouf, Marguerite; Poggio, M.J.; Collier, Alison; Price, Nicole; Schroeder, B. L.; Allsopp, P. G.

doi:10.1007/s11367-018-1442-z

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“…Cleaner production is a concept of industrial production activities by apply environmentally friendly ideas. One of the assessments of the environmental impacts caused by the production process is the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method (Renouf et al, 2018). The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach is one of the environmental consequences generated by the manufacturing process.…”

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Alternative Program From Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) in Sugar Cane to Reduce Environmental Impact

2022

Nusantara Science and Technology Proceedings

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The advantage of the LCA method is that it can comprehensively analyze the potential impacts that can occur on the environment. In this study, a study of the LCA of sugar production. In this study, a sugar factory produces an environmental impact on the gate to gate sugar production process (power plant, milling station, purification station, evaporation station, cooking/crystallization station, and spin) using the Eco-Indicator 99 (H) method. The most significant environmental impacts of the sugar production process are respiratory inorganics, land use, and fossil fuels. The cause of the impact of respiratory inorganics occurs due to air emissions such as particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide from the boiler. The cause of the effects of land use comes from sugarcane land used as raw material for cane cutter units. In comparison, the impact of fossil fuels occurs due to the use of diesel fuel in the sugarcane planting process and natural gas from the fertilizer production process. Alternative improvement programs can be carried out to reduce the environmental impact caused by the sugar factory production process include the procurement of air emission controllers that meet standards and periodic maintenance. Furthermore, reducing diesel fuel and replacing it with environmentally friendly fuels, paying attention to farmers. Related to increasing productivity based on land suitability assessment, reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, and replacing environmentally friendly fertilizers in the sugarcane planting process.

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Alternative Program From Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) in Sugar Cane to Reduce Environmental Impact

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“…A major issue for standard life cycle assessment, which addresses one state of a particular product system, might be the fact that no optimal production mixes can be determined. Usually, in LCA, this point is addressed by creating a small number of scenarios analyzing different product system alternatives iteratively (e.g., Budzinski and Nitzsche 2016;Renouf et al 2018). However, such procedure can be very time-consuming.…”

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Consequential LCA and LCC using linear programming: an illustrative example of biorefineries

Budzinski

Sisca

Thrän

2019

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate how LCA can be improved by the use of linear programming (LP) (i) to determine the optimal choice between new technologies, (ii) to identify the optimal region for supplying the feedstock, and (iii) to deal with multifunctional processes without specifying a certain main product. Furthermore, the contribution of LP in the context of consequential LCA and LCC is illustrated. Methods We create a mixed integer linear program (MILP) for the environmental and economic assessment of new technologies. The model is applied in order to analyze two residual beech wood-based biorefinery concepts in Germany. In terms of the optimal consequences for the system under study, the principle of the program is to find a scaling vector that minimizes the life cycle impact indicator results of the system. We further transform the original linear program to extend the assessment by life cycle costing (LCC). Thereby, two multi-objective programming methods are used, weighted goal programming and epsilon constraint method. Results and discussion The consequential case studies demonstrate the possibility to determine optimal locations of newly developed technologies. A high number of potential system modifications can be studied simultaneously without matrix inversion. The criteria for optimal choices are represented by the objective functions and the additional constraints such as the available feedstock in a region. By combining LCA and LCC targets within a multi-objective programming approach, it is possible to address environmental and economic trade-offs in consequential decision-making. Conclusions This article shows that linear programming can be used to extend standard LCA in the field of technological choices. Additional consequential research questions can be addressed such as the determination of the optimal number of new production plants and the optimal regions for supplying the resources. The modifications of the program by additional profit requirements (LCC) into a goal program and Pareto optimization problem have been identified as promising steps toward a comprehensive multi-objective LCSA.

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Chang

DiGiovanni

Mei

2019

Water Environment Research

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This review on Sustainability covers selected 2018 publications on the focus of sustainability. It is divided into the following sections: (a) Water quantity; (b) Water quality; (c) Climate change and resilience; (d) Planning and ecosystem evaluation; (e) Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications; (f) Sustainable management; (g) Sustainability and asset management; (h) Sustainability in wastewater treatment; (i) Sustainable water and wastewater utilities; (j) Sustainable water resource management.

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Customised life cycle assessment tool for sugarcane (CaneLCA)—a development in the evaluation of alternative agricultural practices

Cited by 14 publications

References 35 publications

Alternative Program From Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) in Sugar Cane to Reduce Environmental Impact

Alternative Program From Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) in Sugar Cane to Reduce Environmental Impact

Consequential LCA and LCC using linear programming: an illustrative example of biorefineries

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