Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages 89-98Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.05.130
Keywords
Waste paper; Bioethanol; Life Cycle Assessment; Recycling; Incineratior
Funding
- Porter Institute (Imperial College London)
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This study uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to assess the environmental profiles and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for bioethanol production from waste papers and to compare them with the alternative waste management options of recycling or incineration with energy recovery. Bioethanol production scenarios both with and without pre-treatments were conducted. It was found that an oxidative lime pretreatment reduced GHG emissions and overall environmental burdens for a newspaper-to-bioethanol process whereas a dilute acid pre-treatment raised GHG emissions and overall environmental impacts loran office paper-to-bioethanol process. In the comparison of bioethanol production systems with alternative management of waste papers by different technologies, it was found that the environmental profiles of each system vary significantly and this variation affects the outcomes of the specific comparisons made. Overall, a number of configurations of bioethanol production from waste papers offer environmentally favourable or neutral profiles when compared with recycling or incineration. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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