Imperial College London
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Dr Rocio Diaz-Chavez

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Senior Research Fellow
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9338r.diaz-chavez Website

 
 
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Location

 

Weeks Building Room 507Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Silva:2017:10.1007/978-3-319-48288-0_7,
author = {Silva, CAM and Prunescu, RM and Gernaey, KV and Sin, G and Diaz-Chavez, RA},
booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Energy},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-48288-0_7},
pages = {161--200},
title = {Biorefinery sustainability analysis},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48288-0_7},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter deals with sustainability analysis of biorefinery systems in terms of environmental and socio-economic indicators. Life cycle analysis has methodological issues related to the functional unit (FU), allocation, land use and biogenic carbon neutrality of the reference system and of the biorefinery-based system. Socio-economic criteria and indicators used in sustainability frameworks assessment are presented and discussed. There is not one single methodology that can aptly cover the synergies of environmental, economic, social and governance issues required to assess the sustainable production and use of bioenergy systems. The perfect metric for environmental issues is not yet established and some researchers prefer to avoid high levels of uncertainty in life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology and adopt more physically quantifying methods like the annual basis carbon (ABC) method presented here. In addition to establishing the perfect metric, there are three types of uncertainty when building scenarios with biorefinery-based systems that must be regarded to have a more holistic point of view. This uncertainty is at the level of the concept, of the configuration and of the operation.
AU  - Silva,CAM
AU  - Prunescu,RM
AU  - Gernaey,KV
AU  - Sin,G
AU  - Diaz-Chavez,RA
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-48288-0_7
EP  - 200
PY  - 2017///
SP  - 161
TI  - Biorefinery sustainability analysis
T1  - Lecture Notes in Energy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48288-0_7
ER  -
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