Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Alternatives for Replacement of Natural Gas in Building Material Industry

Energy Procedia 2015
Māra Rēpele, Gatis Bažbauers

Due to environmental and geopolitical reasons, the need for substitution of fossil fuels with renewable alternatives in industry is augmenting. The main objective was to assess environmental impacts of “cradle-to-gate” brick production stages and to evaluate the effect of fuel substitution and variation of electricity mix on the impact. Scenarios with natural gas, bio-methane, first and second generation bio-fuels used as the fuels in industrial furnace were studied. Scenarios were analyzed using “ReCiPe” and “EcoIndicator’99” impact assessment methods. Results show that environmental impact can be reduced by circa 50% when natural gas is substituted with bio-methane or second generation bio-fuel.

Atslēgas vārdi
Bio-methane; Brick production; Building industry; Cradle-to-gate; Eco-design; Life cycle assessment; Renewable energy; Sustainable construction; System innovation
DOI
10.1016/j.egypro.2015.06.018
Hipersaite
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610215007080

Rēpele, M., Bažbauers, G. Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Alternatives for Replacement of Natural Gas in Building Material Industry. Energy Procedia, 2015, Vol.72, 127.-134.lpp. ISSN 1876-6102. Pieejams: doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2015.06.018

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)