Life Cycle of Biomass Blending in Electricity Generation: An Environmental and Economic Assessment

• Main Authors: Mohd Shafie, Shafini, Othman, Zakirah, Hami, Norsiah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IJTech 2018
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31867/1/IJTech%2009%2008%202018%201681-1691.pdf; https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31867/; https://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/about/1/about-the-journal

Recently, biomass resources have faced issues with the security of resources supply. Biomass blending could provide the solution to overcome this limitation. This study aimed to determine the life cycle assessment of the biomass blending of paddy residue, cash crop, industrial crop, and garden waste in electricity generation. The analysis are related to environmental and cost assessments. The life cycle includes the process of crop production, crop collection, transportation, collection center, and power plant. The results obtained the range for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, varying from 0.02 kg CO2EQ/kWh to 6400.04 kg CO2EQ/kWh, whereas the cost varied from RM0.01/kWh to RM16.10/kWh. The transportation process is the most critical process requiring extra extension, due to the high GHG emissions and consumption cost for that process. The output from this research is hoped to serve as the guideline for biomass utilization development in Malaysia