Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7079604 | Bioresource Technology | 2013 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The availability of about 18 million hectares of grassland in Pará State, Brazil, and the possibility of increasing the livestock density display a good perspective for the oil palm expansion in pasture land. A life cycle assessment is performed for a prospective palm-based biorefinery to view two regional and one global environmental impact and the consequences of the land-use change in terms of GHG emissions. Oil palm cultivation in an area of â¼110,000Â hectares of land can annually produce â¼39,000Â tons of bioethanol, â¼340,000Â tons of biodiesel, â¼268Â GW h net electricity and other co-products. The life cycle GHG emissions reduction for biodiesel and bioethanol as compared to fossil diesel and gasoline would be 76.9-79.3% and 83.7-88.6%. The advantage of grassland rehabilitation by oil palm plantation is the removal of â¼188Â t CO2/ha from the atmosphere during the plant lifetime. The entire inflows and outflows for the conversion processes are schemed.
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Authors
Mitra Kami Delivand, Edgard Gnansounou,