Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study

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Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, José
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Viana, Helder Filipe dos Santos, Esteves, Bruno, Cruz-Lopes, Luísa, Domingos, Idalina
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/3434
Resumo: The residual forest biomass (RFB) sector has been experiencing strong development at European level and particularly in Portugal mainly due to the increase of energy production from renewable sources. The aim of this study is to assess the environmental impacts of eucalyptus RFB chips production chain in Portugal. The environmental and economic impact comparison of the processes included in the production chain is presented as well. The environmental impacts were calculated by the life cycle assessment approach described in the ISO 14040 series of standards. The production chain assessed included all processes from eucalyptus forest until the delivery of RFB chips at the power plant. The main conclusion of this study is that eucalyptus wood production is the process that presents the greatest environmental impact through the product life cycle.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
title Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
spellingShingle Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
Ferreira, José
Forestry
Life cycle assessment
Renewable energy
Residual forestry biomass
Wood energy
title_short Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
title_full Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
title_fullStr Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
title_full_unstemmed Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
title_sort Life cycle assessment of residual forestry biomass chips at a power plant: a Portuguese case study
author Ferreira, José
author_facet Ferreira, José
Viana, Helder Filipe dos Santos
Esteves, Bruno
Cruz-Lopes, Luísa
Domingos, Idalina
author_role author
author2 Viana, Helder Filipe dos Santos
Esteves, Bruno
Cruz-Lopes, Luísa
Domingos, Idalina
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ferreira, José
Viana, Helder Filipe dos Santos
Esteves, Bruno
Cruz-Lopes, Luísa
Domingos, Idalina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Forestry
Life cycle assessment
Renewable energy
Residual forestry biomass
Wood energy
topic Forestry
Life cycle assessment
Renewable energy
Residual forestry biomass
Wood energy
description The residual forest biomass (RFB) sector has been experiencing strong development at European level and particularly in Portugal mainly due to the increase of energy production from renewable sources. The aim of this study is to assess the environmental impacts of eucalyptus RFB chips production chain in Portugal. The environmental and economic impact comparison of the processes included in the production chain is presented as well. The environmental impacts were calculated by the life cycle assessment approach described in the ISO 14040 series of standards. The production chain assessed included all processes from eucalyptus forest until the delivery of RFB chips at the power plant. The main conclusion of this study is that eucalyptus wood production is the process that presents the greatest environmental impact through the product life cycle.
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