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: Received: 4 January 2022 / Approved: 10 January 2022 / Online: 10 January 2022 (12:41:26 CET)
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Zhao, P.; Tamadon, A.; Pons, D. Life cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Steam Reforming vs. Biomass Gasification. Preprints2022, 2022010112. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0112.v1
Zhao, P.; Tamadon, A.; Pons, D. Life cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Steam Reforming vs. Biomass Gasification. Preprints 2022, 2022010112. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0112.v1
Zhao, P.; Tamadon, A.; Pons, D. Life cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Steam Reforming vs. Biomass Gasification. Preprints2022, 2022010112. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0112.v1
APA Style
Zhao, P., Tamadon, A., & Pons, D. (2022). Life cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Steam Reforming vs. Biomass Gasification. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0112.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Zhao, P., Abbas Tamadon and Dirk Pons. 2022 "Life cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Steam Reforming vs. Biomass Gasification" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0112.v1
Abstract
CONTEXT– Energy is widely involved in human activity and corresponding emissions of SOX, NOX and CO2 from energy generation processes affect global climate change. Clean fuels are desired by society because of their reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen is once such candidate fuel. Much hydrogen is produced from fossil fuel, with biomass being an alternative process. OBJECTIVE– The project compared the environmental impact of hydrogen production by natural gas steam reforming vs. biomass gasification. METHOD–Environmental impact was calculated from the input and output data from life cycle inventory analysis. The impact assessment was focused on greenhouse gas emission, acidification, and eutrophication. Models of the two processes were developed and analysed in OpenLCA. The agribalyse database was used to connect inventory flow data to environmental impacts. FINDINGS– For all three metrics, biomass gasification had lower impacts than natural gas steam reforming, sometimes by large margins. For biomass gasification the silica sand production contributes most to all three impact categories, whereas for natural gas steam reforming it is the LPG extraction.
Keywords
Life Cycle Assessment; hydrogen production; natural gas steam reforming; biomass gasification
Subject
Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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