Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery
A study was conducted to estimate the possible environmental impacts arising from the generation of bioethanol from oil palm frond sugar juice in a theoretical oil palm based biorefinery model. A life cycle assessment (LCA) with the gate-to-gate approach was performed with the aid of SimaPro version...
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| author | Mohd Yusof, Siti Jamilah Hanim Roslan, Ahmad Muhaimin Ibrahim, Khairul Nadiah Syed Abdullah, Sharifah Soplah Zakaria @ Mamat, Mohd Rafein Hassan, Mohd Ali Shirai, Yoshihito |
| author_facet | Mohd Yusof, Siti Jamilah Hanim Roslan, Ahmad Muhaimin Ibrahim, Khairul Nadiah Syed Abdullah, Sharifah Soplah Zakaria @ Mamat, Mohd Rafein Hassan, Mohd Ali Shirai, Yoshihito |
| author_sort | Mohd Yusof, Siti Jamilah Hanim |
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| description | A study was conducted to estimate the possible environmental impacts arising from the generation of bioethanol from oil palm frond sugar juice in a theoretical oil palm based biorefinery model. A life cycle assessment (LCA) with the gate-to-gate approach was performed with the aid of SimaPro version 8.0 whereby ten impact categories were evaluated. The scope included frond collection and transportation, frond sugar juice extraction, and bioethanol fermentation and purification. Evaluation on the processes involved indicated that fermentation contributed to the environmental problems the most, with a contribution range of 52% to 97% for all the impact categories. This was due to a substantial usage of nutrient during this process, which consumes high energy for its production thus contributing a significant burden to the surrounding. Nevertheless, the present system offers a great option for biofuel generation as it utilizes sugar juice from the readily available oil palm waste. Not only solving the issue of land utilization for feedstock cultivation, the enzymatic saccharification step, which commonly necessary for lignocellulosic sugar recovery could also be eliminated. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-382062020-05-04T15:53:17Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38206/ Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery Mohd Yusof, Siti Jamilah Hanim Roslan, Ahmad Muhaimin Ibrahim, Khairul Nadiah Syed Abdullah, Sharifah Soplah Zakaria @ Mamat, Mohd Rafein Hassan, Mohd Ali Shirai, Yoshihito A study was conducted to estimate the possible environmental impacts arising from the generation of bioethanol from oil palm frond sugar juice in a theoretical oil palm based biorefinery model. A life cycle assessment (LCA) with the gate-to-gate approach was performed with the aid of SimaPro version 8.0 whereby ten impact categories were evaluated. The scope included frond collection and transportation, frond sugar juice extraction, and bioethanol fermentation and purification. Evaluation on the processes involved indicated that fermentation contributed to the environmental problems the most, with a contribution range of 52% to 97% for all the impact categories. This was due to a substantial usage of nutrient during this process, which consumes high energy for its production thus contributing a significant burden to the surrounding. Nevertheless, the present system offers a great option for biofuel generation as it utilizes sugar juice from the readily available oil palm waste. Not only solving the issue of land utilization for feedstock cultivation, the enzymatic saccharification step, which commonly necessary for lignocellulosic sugar recovery could also be eliminated. MDPI 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38206/1/38206.pdf Mohd Yusof, Siti Jamilah Hanim and Roslan, Ahmad Muhaimin and Ibrahim, Khairul Nadiah and Syed Abdullah, Sharifah Soplah and Zakaria @ Mamat, Mohd Rafein and Hassan, Mohd Ali and Shirai, Yoshihito (2019) Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery. Sustainability, 11 (24). art. no. 6928. pp. 1-14. ISSN 2071-1050 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/24/6928 10.3390/su11246928 |
| spellingShingle | Mohd Yusof, Siti Jamilah Hanim Roslan, Ahmad Muhaimin Ibrahim, Khairul Nadiah Syed Abdullah, Sharifah Soplah Zakaria @ Mamat, Mohd Rafein Hassan, Mohd Ali Shirai, Yoshihito Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery |
| title | Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery |
| title_full | Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery |
| title_fullStr | Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery |
| title_short | Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery |
| title_sort | life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from oil palm frond juice in an oil palm based biorefinery |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38206/1/38206.pdf |
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