Khoo, H.H., Eufrasio-Espinosa, R.M., Koh, L.S.C. et al. (2 more authors) (2019) Sustainability assessment of biorefinery production chains: a combined LCA-supply chain approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 235. pp. 1116-1137. ISSN 0959-6526
Abstract
The integration of a model combining multi-layer dimensions of Life cycle assessment (LCA), external Supply Chain (SC) risk factors and Geographical Information System (GIS) is lacking; in order to fulfil this research gap this article proposes an integrated model combining LCA, SC-risk factors and GIS. This research assesses the sustainability of various supply chains representing bio-derived levulinic acid production. The feedstock supplies are corn stover from US, and rice straw from Thailand, China and India. A combined life cycle assessment (LCA) and supply chain (SC) approach, from farm to final bio-derived product distribution and sales are investigated. GIS is applied to provide resolution of spatial and location datasets for the supply chain. The proposed framework is tested on 8 scenarios for the supply and distribution of 100 kilo-ton levulinic acid delivered to China (35%), US (30%), Germany (20%), Japan (10%) and Singapore (5%). The results showed that scenarios 5 and 6 are observed to have the highest overall (external, macro) risks. An overall quantitative (scaled) assessment highlighted that scenarios 1 and 2 are observed to both have the least impacts. With revenue as the main SC priority, scenario 7 gained the advantage of displaying an overall reasonable (moderate) sustainability performance. Based on the limitations of the present integrated model, a future research framework was suggested to include i) multi-criteria optimization methods; ii) land use change (LUC); iii) Water Footprint; iv) dynamic modelling.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. |
Keywords: | Sustainability metrics; LCA; External SC risks; GIS; Biorefinery |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2024 08:41 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2024 08:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.07.007 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:214468 |