Sustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes
Social and Environmental Impacts via Multi-criteria and Principal Component Analyses using Brazilian Case Studies
- 1st Edition - August 6, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Authors: Stefano Ferrari Interlenghi, José Luiz de Medeiros, Ofélia de Queiroz Fernandes Araújo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 4 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 4 1 - 2
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Request a sales quoteSustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes: Social and Environmental Impacts via Multi-criteria and Principal Component Analyses using Brazilian Case Studies presents an innovative, quantitative methodology for the assessment of the social and environmental sustainability of methylic and ethylic production routes. Sections explain the key steps in assessing the social and environmental impacts of biofuel production chains, including an overview of biodiesel properties and its production chains, common metrics for environmental, social and economic impacts, explain sustainability indicator variabilities and detect similarities among different classes of sustainability indicators, and cover techno-economic considerations.
Finally, several appendices provide readers with MATLAB codes for solving Principal Component Analysis and Multi-Criterial Sustainability Analysis problems in the context of biodiesel chains or in the context of agronomy and agronomics. This book is an invaluable reference for anyone working on biofuels and bioenergy, including scientific, technical, management, social, environmental and policy professionals.
- Presents analytical methodologies for the sustainability assessment of biodiesel processes using case studies from the Brazilian biodiesel sector
- Explains Multi-Criteria Sustainability Analysis for ranking technologies and producing chains in terms of environmental and social sustainability from large sets of indicators and statistics
- Provides MATLAB-based examples of Principal Component Analysis and Multi-Criteria Analysis problems
- Offers case studies from the second largest biodiesel chain in the world, Brazil
Researchers, scientists, and management, including chemists, biochemists, bioengineers, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, and agronomic engineers working in the biodiesel industries and in the agro-industries in general as well as in the entire biodiesel and agro-industry chains, Students in chemical engineering, bioengineering, agronomy, agronomics, biochemistry, and chemistry interested in bioenergy, Government policymakers in the social, environmental, industrial, agronomics, agro-industrial and agricultural sectors
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter one. Biodiesel production chain: an introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1 Biodiesel
- 1.2 Biodiesel production process
- 1.3 Biodiesel industry in the world
- 1.4 Biodiesel industry in Brazil
- 1.5 Final remarks
- Chapter Two. Biodiesel production chain: sustainability and metrics
- Abstract
- 2.1 Environmental sustainability
- 2.2 Economic sustainability
- 2.3 Social sustainability
- 2.4 Sustainability assessments
- 2.5 Biodiesel assessments in the literature
- Chapter three. Methods
- Abstract
- 3.1 Scope, objective, and system boundaries
- 3.2 Environmental data assumptions and sources
- 3.3 Social data assumptions and sources
- 3.4 Sustainability indicators
- 3.5 Multicriteria analysis
- 3.6 Principal component analysis
- Chapter four. Fatty acid methyl ester and fatty acid ethyl ester inventories and sustainability indicators
- Abstract
- 4.1 Inventory matrix compilation
- 4.2 Sustainability Metrics
- 4.3 Auxiliary indicators
- Chapter five. Sustainability assessment
- Abstract
- 5.1 Multicriteria analysis
- 5.2 Principal component analysis
- Chapter six. Conclusions
- Abstract
- References
- Appendix A. Microdata extraction through R
- Appendix B. MATLAB® code for multicriteria sustainability assessment and principal component analysis
- Appendix C. FAME chain inventory
- Appendix D. FAEE chain inventory
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 6, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 230
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443219429
- eBook ISBN: 9780443219412
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Stefano Ferrari Interlenghi
His research expertise includes Simulation and Modelling; Supersonic Separators; Aspen-HYSYS Unit Operation Extensions; Natural Gas Production Chain; Techno-Economic Process Analyses and Sustainability Assessments.
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, Servico Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilJd
José Luiz de Medeiros
His research expertise includes Applied Thermodynamics; Separation Processes; Process Identification & Optimization; Statistical & Mathematical Methods; Hydrotreatment & Hydrocracking of Oil Fractions; Compressible & Incompressible Flows; Supersonic Separators; Pipeline Network Simulation; Leak Detection for Natural Gas & Oil Pipelines; CO2 & H2S Capture from Natural Gas via Membrane Permeation and Technologies of Contact with Aqueous-Ethanolamines.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BrazilOF
Ofélia de Queiroz Fernandes Araújo
Her research expertise includes Process Systems Engineering; Oil & Gas Processing; CO2 Capture & Utilization; Waste-to-Energy & Waste-to-Chemicals; Sustainability Metrics & Indicators for Multicriteria Life-Cycle Analyses. She is also an Associate Editor of Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy; Associate Editor of Clean Chemical Engineering (Elsevier); Head of the Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering at UFRJ.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BrazilRead Sustainability of Methylic and Ethylic Biodiesel Production Routes on ScienceDirect