| Title | Life Cycle Assessment of second generation bioethanol produced from low-input dedicated crops of Arundo donax L. |
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| Publication Type | Articolo su Rivista peer-reviewed |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Zucaro, Amalia, Forte A., Basosi R., Fagnano M., and Fierro A. |
| Journal | Bioresource Technology |
| Volume | 219 |
| Pagination | 589-599 |
| ISSN | 09608524 |
| Keywords | Agricultural, alcohol, article, Arundo donax, Arundo donax L, automobile, Automobiles, Bioethanol, biofuel, biofuels, biological production, car, cellulose, comparative study, Conventional gasoline, Crashworthiness, Crop, Crops, Cultivation, energy crop, environment, Environmental impact, environmental impact assessment, environmental management, Environmental performance, Ethanol, Feedstock production, Feedstocks, fossil, gasoline, Gasoline production, Global warming, grass, greenhouse effect, life cycle, life cycle analysis, life cycle assessment, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Lignocellulose, metabolism, ozone depletion, Ozone layer, Photochemical oxidants, photochemical smog, Poaceae, priority journal, Second generation, Second generation bioethanol, species cultivation, Transportation |
| Abstract | This work presents a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of bioethanol (EtOH) from perennial Arundo donax L. feedstock. A “cradle-to-wheel” approach was applied considering primary data for the cultivation of dedicated crops on hilly marginal lands and innovative “second generation technologies” for feedstock conversion into EtOH. The goals of the study were to: (i) quantify impacts of lignocellulosic EtOH production/use chain, (ii) identify hotspots and (iii) compare the environmental performance of different bioethanol-gasoline vehicles, E10 (10% EtOH and 90% gasoline) and E85 (85% EtOH and 15% gasoline), with a conventional gasoline passenger car. Results for E85 underlined that the feedstock production and the use phase were the prevailing contributors, whilst for E10 the gasoline production phase shared the largest part of impacts. The comparison showed that vehicles using lignocellulosic bioethanol have potentially significant benefits on global warming, ozone depletion, photochemical oxidant formation and fossil depletion in respect to conventional passenger car. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd |
| Notes | cited By 16 |
| URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84982135211&doi=10.1016%2fj.biortech.2016.08.022&partnerID=40&md5=61da1b8a70eebc186efe0901c56888a3 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.08.022 |
| Citation Key | Zucaro2016589 |
