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Sustainability assessment (SA) biogas-fired power plant, life cycle, 119,
biofuel production pathways, 338–340, 120f
348, 352, 357–358 and indicators, 119–122
FMCDM method, 319–320, 321f, Sustainability science (SS), 51–52, 66–67
322–324, 329t, 330–332 Sustainability transition, 39, 43.
global weights, 350, 350t See also Biofuel transitions
group decision-making (see Group Sustainable bioeconomy, 49
multicriteria decision-making Sustainable development
method) definition, 48
MCDM method, 318 energy and biofuels, 117–119
wheat-based pathway, 351 environmental policies, 48
biofuels design, life cycle stages of, 52, 53f sustainability pillars, 50
capital’s evaluation, 51 UN sustainable development goals,
decision-making, 52–53 116–117, 117b
definition, 50–51 Sustainable development goals (SDGs), 49,
indicators (see Sustainability indicators) 54–56, 55f
strong sustainability, 51 Sustainable energy, 115–117
sustainability science, 51–52 Sustainable feedstocks, 62–63
triple bottom line, 50–52 Sustainable production and consumption
weak sustainability, 51 (SCP), 48
Sustainability index, biofuel production Syngas, 81
pathways conditioning, 94
aggregated, 378–388 Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, 82, 94–96, 94f,
composite, 378–379 95–96t
Sustainability indicators, 119–122 possibilities and applications, 81, 82f
absolute and normalized indicator values, production and cleaning, 93, 93f
102, 102t thermochemical route, 92, 92f
amounts of products involved, 99, 100t Synthetic biofuels, 75
CO 2 -eq avoided emissions per product,
98, 99t, 101, 101f
energy productivity per hectare, 98 T
TBL. See Triple bottom line (TBL)
environmental sustainability indicator,
145–146, 146f, 155–156, 156f Technique for Order Preference by
global efficiency of the plant, 98, Similarity to an Ideal Solution
100–102, 100f (TOPSIS), 338–339
large-scale biomass power assessment, Thermochemical conversion processes,
141, 142–144t 81–83, 82f, 277
lower heating values, 98, 99t steps, 92, 92f
net productivity per hectare, 100–102, syngas
100f bagasse pretreatment, 93
radar diagram, 102, 103f conditioning, 94
social sustainability indicator, 132, 133t, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, 82, 94–96,
147, 147f, 156, 156f 94f,95–96t
techno-economic indicators, 141–144, possibilities and applications, 81, 82f
145f, 155, 155f production and cleaning, 93, 93f
Sustainability issues thermochemical route, 92, 92f
biofuels, 27–28 Triangular fuzzy numbers, 320, 322, 322f
Triple bottom line (TBL), 50–52