期刊
APPLIED ENERGY
卷 86, 期 5, 页码 589-594出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.11.025
关键词
Ethanol; Greenhouse gases; Biofuels; Life cycle assessment; Agricultural crops
资金
- The Swedish Energy Agency and The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA)
The purpose of this study is to describe how the greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits of ethanol from agricultural crops depend on local conditions and calculation methods. The focus is mainly on the fuels used in the ethanol process and biogenic GHG from the soils cultivated. To ensure that good ethanol is produced, with reference to GHG benefits, the following demands must be met: (i) ethanol plants should use biomass and not fossil fuels, (ii) cultivation of annual feedstock crops should be avoided on land rich in carbon (above and below ground), such as peat soils used as permanent grassland, etc., (iii) by-products should be utilised efficiently in order to maximise their energy and GHG benefits and (iv) nitrous oxide emissions should be kept to a minimum by means of efficient fertilisation strategies, and the commercial nitrogen fertiliser utilised should be produced in plants which have nitrous oxide gas cleaning. Several of the current ethanol production systems worldwide fullfill the majority of these demands, whereas some production systems do not. Thus, the findings in this paper helps identifying current good systems, how today's fairly good systems could be improved, and which inherent bad systems that we should avoid. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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