Environmental and economic sustainability of integrated production in bio-refineries: The thistle case in Sardinia

Devrim Murat Yazan, Giovanni Mandras and Giorgio Garau

Renewable Energy, 2017, vol. 102, issue PB, 349-360

Abstract: This paper aims at evaluating the environmental and economic sustainability of bio-refineries that produce multiple products through their supply chains (SCs). A physical enterprise input-output (EIO) model is used to quantify the material/energy/waste flows and integrated to the monetary EIO model to compute the economic performance of bio-refinery SC (BRSC). The empirical case study is based on a (under-construction) bio-refinery which uses thistle oil and residues to produce bio-monomers, bio-lubricants, glycerine, and thermal energy in Porto Torres industrial district, Sardinia (Italy). Given the impact of uncertainty on the performance of the BRSC, we apply sensitivity analysis on the spatial, logistical, and biomass quality variables, i.e., land productivity, transportation distance, and thistle oil content rate.

Keywords: Enterprise input-output analysis; Bio-refinery supply chain; Environmental and economic sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.10.055

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