期刊
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
卷 95, 期 -, 页码 174-182出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2014.12.013
关键词
Sustainability; Biomass; LCA; Land footprint
资金
- GSK-Singapore Partnership for Green and Sustainable Manufacturing
This work highlights that bio-based chemicals may not automatically be synonymous with green, and efforts to generate the quantitative environmental performance of bio-products via LCA are crucial in ensuring their sustainable attributes. 2-Methyl tetrahydrofuran (2-MeTHF) is a new solvent derived from natural product sources. A relative LCA comparing 2-MeTHF manufacture originating from different biomass resources was carried out to investigate the sustainability of each feedstock. The biofine process was employed as a model for the production of levulinic acid from a mixture of C-5 and C-6 sugars before the final synthesis of 2-MeTHF. A new perspective of LCA impact, land footprint (total land area required), is proposed as a result of our evaluation, taking into account the viewpoint of competing land use options in the LCAs of green chemicals. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据