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Environmental footprint of cooking fuels: a life cycle assessment of ten fuel sources used in Indian households
| العنوان: | Environmental footprint of cooking fuels: a life cycle assessment of ten fuel sources used in Indian households |
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| المؤلفون: | SINGH, P, GUNDIMEDA, H, STUCKI, M |
| بيانات النشر: | SPRINGER HEIDELBERG |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cooking Fuels, Dung Cake, Environmental Footprint, Household Biogas, Lca, Recipe Impact Categories, Sulfur-Dioxide Emissions, Biomass, Combustion, Quantification, Inventory, Countries, Charcoal, Aerosol, Systems, Stoves |
| الوصف: | Cooking energy is an essential requirement of any human dwelling. With the recent upsurge in petroleum prices coupled with intrinsic volatility of international oil markets, it is fast turning into a politico-socio-economic dilemma for countries like India to sustain future subsidies on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene. The aim of this paper is to evaluate and compare the environmental performance of various cooking fuel options, namely LPG (NG), LPG (CO), kerosene, coal, electricity, firewood, crop residue, dung cake, charcoal, and biogas, in the Indian context. The purpose of this study is to find environmentally suitable alternatives to LPG and kerosene for rural and urban areas of the country. The study assessed the cooking fuel performance on 13 ReCiPe environmental impact categories using the life cycle assessment methodology. The study modeled the system boundary for each fuel based on the Indian scenario and prepared a detailed life cycle inventory for each cooking fuel taking 1 GJ of heat energy transferred to cooking pot as the functional unit. The cooking fuels with the lowest life cycle environmental impacts are biogas followed by LPG, kerosene, and charcoal. The environmental impacts of using LPG are about 15 to 18 % lower than kerosene for most environmental impact categories. LPG derived from natural gas has about 20 to 30 % lower environmental impact than LPG derived from crude oil. Coal and dung cake have the highest environmental impacts because of significant contributions to climate change and particulate formation, respectively. Charcoal produced from renewable wood supply performs better than kerosene on most impact categories except photochemical oxidation, where its contribution is 19 times higher than kerosene. Biogas and charcoal can be viewed as potentially sustainable cooking fuel options in the Indian context because of their environmental benefits and other associated co-benefits such as land farming, local employment opportunities, and skill development. The study ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0948-3349 1614-7502 |
| Relation: | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT, 19(5)1036-1048; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-014-0699-0; http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/16785 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11367-014-0699-0 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/16785 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-014-0699-0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.BB287462 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 09483349 16147502 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11367-014-0699-0 |