Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis

The global transportation sector is one of the major fuel consumers and contributes directly to greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce the environmental burden of fuel usage, new diesel blending formulations that consist of biofuels were developed. The objective of the study is to assess the e...

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Main Author:	Che Hassan, Che Hafizan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	TP Chemical technology
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78708/1/CheHafizanChePFChE2016.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.787082018-08-29T08:29:08Z Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis 2016-07 Che Hassan, Che Hafizan TP Chemical technology The global transportation sector is one of the major fuel consumers and contributes directly to greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce the environmental burden of fuel usage, new diesel blending formulations that consist of biofuels were developed. The objective of the study is to assess the environmental performance of the new diesel blending formulations compared to the existing diesel blending formulation (B5). The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology has been used to assess the environmental performance of the blending formulation. New weighting values are also developed by using an analytical hierarchy process to support the study within Malaysia’s context. In term of LCA result within midpoint categories, Blending 5 has shown the most potential compared to other fuels including B5 blending due to better environmental performance in most categories except for ozone depletion and urban land occupation impacts. In the endpoint categories, for Malaysia’s context; Blending 5 has shown better environmental performance as compared to B5 blending with each scoring 9.63E-5 point and 1.00E- 4 point, respectively. The result is found to be consistent with other weighting methods. In developing new weighting values, this study suggests there is no consensus in term of importance between regional and global impact categories. This is visualized in the individualist perspective where both global and regional impacts were scored most importance but higher regional impact scored in egalitarian and hierarchist perspectives. In conclusion, Blending 5 has scored the least weighting values as compared to other diesel blending formulations including B5 thus indicating its potential as an alternative to the existing diesel blending formulation. 2016-07 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78708/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78708/1/CheHafizanChePFChE2016.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:106307 phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Chemical Engineering
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spellingShingle	TP Chemical technology Che Hassan, Che Hafizan Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis
description	The global transportation sector is one of the major fuel consumers and contributes directly to greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce the environmental burden of fuel usage, new diesel blending formulations that consist of biofuels were developed. The objective of the study is to assess the environmental performance of the new diesel blending formulations compared to the existing diesel blending formulation (B5). The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology has been used to assess the environmental performance of the blending formulation. New weighting values are also developed by using an analytical hierarchy process to support the study within Malaysia’s context. In term of LCA result within midpoint categories, Blending 5 has shown the most potential compared to other fuels including B5 blending due to better environmental performance in most categories except for ozone depletion and urban land occupation impacts. In the endpoint categories, for Malaysia’s context; Blending 5 has shown better environmental performance as compared to B5 blending with each scoring 9.63E-5 point and 1.00E- 4 point, respectively. The result is found to be consistent with other weighting methods. In developing new weighting values, this study suggests there is no consensus in term of importance between regional and global impact categories. This is visualized in the individualist perspective where both global and regional impacts were scored most importance but higher regional impact scored in egalitarian and hierarchist perspectives. In conclusion, Blending 5 has scored the least weighting values as compared to other diesel blending formulations including B5 thus indicating its potential as an alternative to the existing diesel blending formulation.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Che Hassan, Che Hafizan
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title	Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis
title_short	Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis
title_full	Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis
title_fullStr	Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis
title_full_unstemmed	Environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis
title_sort	environmental degradation assessment of biodiesel production using life cycle analysis
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Chemical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Chemical Engineering
publishDate	2016
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78708/1/CheHafizanChePFChE2016.pdf
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