Sustainability assessment of palm biodiesel production in Thailand
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Author list: Silalertruksa T., Gheewala S.H.
Publisher: Hindawi
Publication year: 2013
Volume number: 9783642345197
Start page: 29
End page: 49
Number of pages: 21
ISBN: 9783642345197; 3642345182; 9783642345180
ISSN: 0146-9428
eISSN: 1745-4557
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
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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