Bioenergy

Assessment and optimization of sustainable forest wood supply chains – A systematic literature review

A. Santos, A. Carvalho, A.P. Barbosa-Póvoa, A. Marques, P. Amorim

Forest Policy and Economics (Published)
Aug, 2019

When it was first introduced, the concept of sustainability in the forestry sector had a narrow focus on sustainable wood production. Since then, this concept has evolved and it now considers now the three sustainability dimensions (economic, environmental and social) of the whole forest wood supply…

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A stochastic environmental model to deal with uncertainty in life cycle impact assessment

A. Santos, A.P. Barbosa-Póvoa, A. Carvalho

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (Published)
Jul, 2019

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the most applied methodology to compare the environmental impacts of different products and processes. As uncertainty may be present in the first three steps of an LCA an uncertainty analysis should be considered allowing higher confidence in the results. However, few…

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Supply chain optimization of residual forestry biomass for bioenergy production: The case study of Portugal

H. Paulo, X. Azcue, A.P. Barbosa-Povoa, S. Relvas

Biomass and Bioenergy (Published)
Oct, 2015

Within a large set of renewable energies being explored to tackle energy sourcing problems, bioenergy can represent an attractive solution if effectively managed. The supply chain design supported by mathematical programming can be used as a decision support tool to the successful bioenergy…

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