Sustainability assessment of palm biodiesel production in Thailand

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Author listSilalertruksa T., Gheewala S.H.

PublisherHindawi

Publication year2013

Volume number9783642345197

Start page29

End page49

Number of pages21

ISBN9783642345197; 3642345182; 9783642345180

ISSN0146-9428

eISSN1745-4557

URLhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949178220&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-34519-7_2&partnerID=40&md5=5eef8af0dde35975b5cebecb3804d5ed

LanguagesEnglish-Great Britain (EN-GB)


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Palm oil is the world's largest source of edible oil and is recently being promoted to produce biodiesel in South-East Asian countries including Thailand. The impacts of palm biodiesel production and use to the environment and socioeconomic development in Thailand are presented. Substituting palm biodiesel for diesel can result in various positive externalities to the Thai society and economy such as GHG emissions reduction, employment generation, GDP development, and trade balance improvement. However, some potential environmental drawbacks of increased palm biodiesel production in the future such as the increase in eutrophication impact potential and land-use change from forest land to oil palm need to be considered and regulated. Improving the sustainability of palm oil and palm biodiesel industry in the future entails the investigation on the potential exploitation of palm-based biorefinery systems along with the concept of cascade utilization to fully utilizing biomass residues and wastes generated from palm oil and palm biodiesel industry. ฉ 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. All rights are reserved.


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