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Erschienen in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 3/2013

01.06.2013 | Original Paper

Comparison of ecological footprint for biobased PHA production from animal residues utilizing different energy resources

verfasst von: Khurram Shahzad, Karl-Heinz Kettl, Michaela Titz, Martin Koller, Hans Schnitzer, Michael Narodoslawsky

Erschienen in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy | Ausgabe 3/2013

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Abstract

Realizing a sustainable development of our planet requires a reduction of waste production, harmful emissions, and higher energy efficiency as well as utilization of renewable energy sources. One pathway to this end is the design of sustainable biorefinery concepts. Utilizing waste streams as raw material is gaining great importance in this respect. This reduces environmental burden and may at the same time contribute to economic performance of biorefineries. This paper investigates the utilization of slaughtering waste to produce biodegradable polyesters, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), via bioconversion. PHA are the target product while production of high quality biodiesel along with meat and bone meal (MBM) as by-products improves the economic performance of the process. The paper focuses on ecological comparison of different production scenarios and the effect of geographical location of production plants taking different energy production technologies and resources into account; ecological footprint evaluation using Sustainable Process Index methodology was applied. Keeping in mind that the carbon source for PHA production is produced from waste by energy intensive rendering process, the effect of available energy mixes in different countries becomes significant. Ecological footprint results from the current study show a bandwidth from 372,950 to 956,060 m2/t PHA production, depending on the energy mix used in the process which is compared to 2,508,409 m2/t for low density polyethylene.

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Metadaten
Titel
Comparison of ecological footprint for biobased PHA production from animal residues utilizing different energy resources
verfasst von
Khurram Shahzad
Karl-Heinz Kettl
Michaela Titz
Martin Koller
Hans Schnitzer
Michael Narodoslawsky
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2013
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1618-954X
Elektronische ISSN: 1618-9558
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-013-0608-4

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