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Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Making

  • 1 Edición - 20 de agosto de 2019
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Jingzheng Ren, Antonio Scipioni, Alessandro Manzardo, Hanwei Liang
  • Idioma: Inglés

Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-criteria Decision Making provides a comprehensive sustainability analysis of biofuels… Leer más

Descripción

Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-criteria Decision Making provides a comprehensive sustainability analysis of biofuels based on life cycle thinking and develops various multi-dimensional decision-making techniques for prioritizing biofuel production technologies. Taking a transversal approach, the book combines life cycle sustainability assessment, life cycle assessment, life cycle costing analysis, social life cycle assessment, sustainability metrics, triple bottom line, operations research methods, and supply chain design for investigating the critical factors and key enablers that influence the sustainable development of biofuel industry.

This book will equip researchers and policymakers in the energy sector with the scientific methodology and metrics needed to develop strategies for viable sustainability transition. It will be a key resource for students, researchers and practitioners seeking to deepen their knowledge on energy planning and current and future trends of biofuel as an alternative fuel.

Puntos claves

  • Provides an innovative approach to promoting sustainable development in biofuel production by linking supply chain design and decision support with the life cycle perspective
  • Features case studies and examples that illustrate the theory and methods developed
  • Includes material on corporate social responsibility and economic analysis of biofuels that is highly useful to policy-makers and administrators in both government and enterprise sectors

De interès para

Graduate students, academic researchers, environmental consultants, and engineers in the energy sector in the areas of biofuels, renewable energy, and emission reduction; administrators and government decision-makers in energy planning and management

Índice

1. Biofuels Technologies: An Overview of Feedstocks, Processes, and Technologies

2. Biofuels Technologies: Standards and Regulations in EU and Europe

3. Triple Bottom Line, Sustainability, and Sustainability Assessment: An Overview

4. Indicators for Sustainability Assessment of Biofuel: Economic, Environmental, Social and Technological Dimensions

5. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Energy Sector

6. Hot-spots and Lessons Learned from the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

7. Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuel Production Systems

8. Life Cycle Costing, Analysis of Biofuel production Systems

9. Social Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuel Production Systems

10. Key Issues, Challenges, and Status Quo of Models for Biofuel Supply Chain Design

11. Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Making on Ranking the Biofuels Production Pathway

12. Prioritization of Biofuels Production Pathways under Uncertainties

13. A Multi-criteria Intuitionistic Fuzzy Group Decision Making Method for Sustainability Ranking of Biofuel Production Pathways

14. An Aggregated Life Cycle Sustainability Index for Ranking Biofuel Production Pathways

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 20 de agosto de 2019
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

JR

Jingzheng Ren

Jingzheng Ren is Assistant Professor of Modelling for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has also been nominated as adjunct/honorary associate professor of University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and associated senior research fellow of the Institute for Security & Development Policy (Stockholm, Sweden). Prof. Ren serves as board member of several scientific journals and published more than 150 papers, authored 1 book, edited more than 10 books and published more than 40 book chapters. His research focuses on process system engineering for better sustainability and mathematical models for solving energy and environmental problems and promoting sustainability transition
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

AS

Antonio Scipioni

Antonio Scipioni, University of Padova. Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department. He is the Director of CESQA, a leading research group with outstanding research results in the field of environmental and energy management. He is the member of the national committee on environment that approve standards on environmental management issues. He has managed as scientific director several European funded projects for the University of Padova with partners from all over Europe and with a specific focus on Energy issues and sustainability.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Padova, Italy

AM

Alessandro Manzardo

Alessandro Manzardo is a senior associate researcher in the field of footprint and sustainability assessment in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Padova. He is the chair of the Italian committee at the ISO/TC 207 committee on ISO standards related to environment. He is an active member in several UNEP-Life Cycle Initiative processes on the definition of Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability methods (e.g. Footprints). He has scored several papers on energy-related topics with specific focus on Hydrogen Energy.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

HL

Hanwei Liang

Hanwei Liang is an assistant professor in the Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disaster, School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Engineering from Nagoya University in 2014. Her research mainly focuses on civil engineering and applications of operations research for sustainability. She has published 20 international journal papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. She is a member of the International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIE), The Society for Urban Ecology, Sustainability Science, and Society of Environmental Science, Japan.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disaster, School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China

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