Full-energy-chain analysis of greenhouse gas emissions for solar thermal electric power generation systems

Norton, Brian; Eames, Philip C.; Lo, Stephen

doi:10.1016/s0960-1481(98)00158-x

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“…Many studies [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] evaluated the life cycle environmental impacts of using CSP electricity generation systems. The majority of the CSP studies [35,37,[39][40][41][42][44][45][46] defined the LCA boundary conditions to include activities, such as manufacturing (extraction of raw materials, transportation to the manufacturing facility, component manufacturing processes, transportation of the final product to regional storage), construction (activities associated with site improvements, transporting components to the site, plant assembly), operation, and maintenance (manufacture of replacement components and their transportation to the site, water consumption in the power block and for mirror cleaning, fuel consumption in cleaning/maintenance vehicles, on-site natural gas combustion, electricity consumption from the regional power grid), dismantling (energy required to disassemble the major CSP plant systems), and disposal (energy required to transport demolition waste to the landfill, incinerator, recycling plant, or re-manufacturer and the energy required for final disposal).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many studies analyzed the LCA of PVs and CSPs [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. The use of PV/CSP electricity generation systems around the world is being encouraged in view of the advantages that solar energy is a free and abundant resource from which electricity may be generated with relatively low operational and maintenance costs in comparison with other renewable energy sources.…”

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Review of the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Different Photovoltaic and Concentrating Solar Power Electricity Generation Systems

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This paper contains an extensive review of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different material-based photovoltaic (PV) and working mechanism-based concentrating solar power (CSP) electricity generation systems. Statistical evaluation of the life cycle GHG emissions is conducted to assess the role of different PVs and CSPs in reducing GHG emissions. The widely-used parabolic trough and central receiver CSP electricity generation systems emitted approximately 50% more GHGs than the paraboloidal dish, solar chimney, and solar pond CSP electricity generation systems. The cadmium telluride PVs and solar pond CSPs contributed to minimum life cycle GHGs. Thin-film PVs are also suitable for wider implementation, due to their lower Energy Pay-Back Time (EPBT) periods, in addition to lower GHG emission, in comparison with c-Si PVs.

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Section: Review Of Csp Lca Studiesmentioning

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Review of the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Different Photovoltaic and Concentrating Solar Power Electricity Generation Systems

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“…This system has no exception in generating pollutants. In fact, greenhouse gases are emitted due to the energy from grid as the energy is generated with fossil fuel [29]. Because of this system still needs to purchase energy from the grid as supporting energy; this contributes to the emission of greenhouse gasses.…”

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Optimization and Economic Analysis of Grid-Photovoltaic Electric Boat Charging Station in Kuala Terengganu

2016

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Abstract. This study evaluates the feasibility of developing grid-photovoltaic electric boat charging station in Kuala Terengganu using simulation-based method. The main focus is on reducing the dependency on subsidy spent by the government in fisheries sector and encouraging green technology in commercial sector. All data such as solar radiation, amount of subsidy received by fishermen, and fishing activities were collected for the selected area. Economic analyses of the proposed system are discussed based on payback period and net present cost (NPC). The comparison between the proposed system and the grid-only system is done based on the production and consumption of electricity per year, the NPC and emission of pollutant. The system also generates high income from selling energy to the grid with tariff rates RM 1.49/kWh. It is concluded that the proposed system is feasible to be developed in the selected area with the payback period and the NPC are 8.2 years and RM 759,098, respectively. The results also show that the performance of the proposed system is better than grid-only system in all the interested parameters.

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“…In PCA, each material that makes up the final system is traced back through each manufacturing process to it's initial extraction [8]. PCA normally begins with the final production process and works backwards through each stage of the production process.…”

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Embodied Energy Analysis of New Zealand Power Generation Systems

Fernando¹,

Bodger²

2010

IASTED Technology Conferences / 696:MS / 697:CA / 698: WC / 699: EME / 700: SOE

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Embodied energy is the energy consumed in all activities necessary to support a process in its entire lifecycle. For power generation systems, this includes the energy cost of raw material extraction, plant construction, operation and maintenance, and recycling and disposal. Embodied energy analysis is a crude method of estimating the environmental impacts and depletion of natural resources consequent to a certain process. In effect, the higher the embodied energy of a process, the greater the green house gas emissions and the depletion of natural resources. This paper presents the embodied energy analysis carried out on some New Zealand power plants belonging to various methods of generation. The analysis follows the standards set out by the International Organisation for Standardisation 14040 series, and uses some guidelines given in the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study workshop on energy analysis methodology and conventions. It was found that the lifecycle performance, in terms of energy payback, of renewable electricity generation is superior to nonrenewable electricity generation. From the generation methodologies, hydro power plants have exceptional performance characteristics.

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Full-energy-chain analysis of greenhouse gas emissions for solar thermal electric power generation systems

Cited by 38 publications

References 5 publications

Review of the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Different Photovoltaic and Concentrating Solar Power Electricity Generation Systems

Review of the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Different Photovoltaic and Concentrating Solar Power Electricity Generation Systems

Optimization and Economic Analysis of Grid-Photovoltaic Electric Boat Charging Station in Kuala Terengganu

Embodied Energy Analysis of New Zealand Power Generation Systems

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