Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Bio-Diesel Production

Sustainability evaluation of biodiesel production using multicriteria decision‐making

“…6. Obtain the final score for an alternative by the following expression [10]: Final score 5 P (A i 3 P j ) where A i 5 priority score of alternative i with respect to SD indicator j and P j 5 priority score of SD indicator j. 7.…”

“…A decision making tool for the SD of biodiesel production process was developed [10]. In that study, four different materials including soybean, rapeseed, sunflower, and beef tallow were evaluated and compared using Analytical Hierarchy Process method.…”

BIOSAFUEL®, a pre-diagnosis tool of risks pertaining to biofuels chains

“…Thus, we quickly turned towards the use of multicriteria decision analysis methods, which propose a methodological framework to select the best alternative when several criteria have to be taken into account. Such methods can be applied to various domains, they have already been employed in the safety domain (Merad, Verdel, & Roy, 2004;Narayanan, Zhang, & et Mannan, 2007). Moreover, according to Caillet (2003), the multicriteria methods are well adapted to make links with the life cycle analysis (LCA) concept, thus meeting one of our goals to address safety issues present from cradle to grave of the biofuel chains.…”

“…To build BIOSAFUEL Ò main structure, we have employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method (Saaty, 2006), which was used recently by Narayanan et al (2007) to identify the most favourable technique to produce biodiesel, balancing four decision-making individual criteria including the safety aspect.…”

“…For the implementation of BIOSAFUEL Ò , the method of arithmetic mean on rows has been chosen. This is one of methods proposed by the inventor of the global methodology AHP (Saaty, 2006), and also by Narayanan et al (2007) who employed this method to rank biodiesel production supply chains.…”