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Production of rape methyl ester (RME) can be carried out with different systems solutions, in which the choice of system is usually related to the scale of the production. The purpose of this study was to analyse whether the use of a small-scale RME production system reduced the environmental load in comparison to a medium- and a large-scale system. To fulfil this purpose, a limited LCA, including air-emissions and energy requirements, was carried out for the three plant sizes. For small plants and physical allocation, the global warming potential was 40.3 g CO2-eq/MJfuel, the acidification potential 236 mg SO2-eq/MJfuel, the eutrophication potential 39.1 mg PO4 3−-eq/MJfuel, the photochemical oxidant creation potential 3.29 mg C2H4-eq/MJfuel and the energy requirement 295 kJ/MJ fuel . It was shown that the differences in environmental impact and energy requirement between small-, medium- and large-scale systems were small or even negligible. The higher oil extraction efficiency and the more efficient use of machinery and buildings in the large-scale system were, to a certain degree, outweighed by the longer transport distances. The dominating production step was the cultivation, i

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Author

Sven Bernesson; Daniel Nilsson; Per-Anders Hansson

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0961-9534)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)