Life-Cycle Assessment of Crude Palm Oil Produced at Mill J, PT XYZ, Sumatera Island using Eco-indicator 99

The Crude Palm Oil industry has now become the largest agricultural industry in Indonesia. Nevertheless, the growth of CPO industry could also bring negative impacts on the environment if the company does not control their emissions and discharges properly. Life-cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of the tools that can assess the environmental impacts due to CPO production activities. This study aims to assess the potential environmental impacts arising from the CPO production system at Mill J, PT XYZ, Sumatera Island by using Eco-indicator 99. Based on this study, in 2015, the process in plantation and mill contributed to climate change category was 0.013 DALY or after normalized 202 Pt. Meanwhile, the land use category has 395 PDF*m2yr or 30.8 Pt. Meanwhile, all of the other categories were less than 30.8 Pt, hence, the highest impact of this CPO production system is climate change at the activities in industrial estate (fertilizers usage) and industry (emitted from waste water of palm oil mill).

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Renewable Energy for Environmental Protection: Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of different Palm Oil Mills in Nigeria

10.31219/osf.io/x2fw9 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kelechi E Anyaoha ◽

Lulu Zhang

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Palm Oil ◽

Oil Palm ◽

Large Scale ◽

Palm Kernel ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Oil Palm Industry

Oil palm is expected to continue its dominance of global oil production, trade, and consumption. Nigeria will continue to play a dominate role in oil palm industry particularly on production and consumption. One of the biggest challenges to agricultural productivities is the need to reduce the environmental impacts and improves circularity in the operations. This study investigated the environmental impacts of different palm oil processors in Nigeria using life cycle assessment approach. The study covers the reception and processing of fresh fruit bunch (FFB) to palm oil. The inputs include generated empty fruit bunch, mesocarp fibre, palm kernel shell, palm oil mill effluent, diesel, and water and all outputs to the environment for a functional unit of 1 tonne of FFB. The large-scale processor performs worse than the semi-mechanised and smallholder processors in terms of climate change with 468 kg CO2-eq per tonne of FFB and better in the other impact categories. In large-scale mill, the contribution to climate change was reduced by 75% when the raw POME was used in composting EFB. Similarly, the contribution to climate change was decreased by 44% when biogas from POME substituted diesel in the semi-mechanised and smallholder mills. Concerted efforts by regulators are needed to ensure that stakeholders take steps towards improving management practices in the industry. Particularly on the generation and reuse of biomass and POME. This study will be very useful particularly on the contributions to climate change by Nigeria’s oil palm industry and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

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PRODUCTION OF PALM OIL WITH METHANE AVOIDANCE AT PALM OIL MILL: A CASE STUDY OF CRADLE-TO-GATE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

American Journal of Applied Sciences ◽

10.3844/ajassp.2013.1351.1355 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 1351-1355 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Puah

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Palm Oil ◽

Cradle To Gate ◽

Palm Oil Mill

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Management influence on environmental impacts in an apple production system on Swiss fruit farms: Combining life cycle assessment with statistical risk assessment

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ◽

10.1016/j.agee.2005.11.020 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 114 (2-4) ◽

pp. 311-322 ◽

Cited By ~ 86

Author(s):

Patrik Mouron ◽

Thomas Nemecek ◽

Roland W. Scholz ◽

Olaf Weber

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Production System ◽

Apple Production ◽

Statistical Risk

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Environmental impacts of peanut production system using life cycle assessment methodology

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.12.048 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 92 ◽

pp. 84-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Amin Nikkhah ◽

Mehdi Khojastehpour ◽

Bagher Emadi ◽

Alireza Taheri-Rad ◽

Surur Khorramdel

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Production System ◽

Assessment Methodology ◽

Life Cycle Assessment Methodology ◽

Peanut Production

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Visualization of the Sustainability Level of Crude Palm Oil Production: A Life Cycle Approach

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041607 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1607

Author(s):

Najat Omran ◽

Amir Hamzah Sharaai ◽

Ahmad Hariza Hashim

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Palm Oil ◽

Social Impact ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Oil Production ◽

Life Cycle Costing ◽

Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle Approach ◽

Crude Palm Oil

The Malaysian palm oil is an important source of social development and economic growth in the country. Nevertheless, it has been accused of conducting unsustainable practices that may affect the sustainability of this industry. Thus, this study aims to identify the level of sustainability of crude palm oil (CPO) production. Environmental impacts were assessed using the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standardized life cycle assessment (LCA). Economic impacts were evaluated using life cycle costing (LCC). Social impact assessment was identified based on the UNEP/SETAC Guidelines for social life cycle assessment (S-LCA). Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) was used to combine three methods: LCA, life cycle costing (LCC) and S-LCA using the scoring system method. Finally, a presentation technique was developed to visualize the LCSA results. The results show that crude palm oil production requires more improvement to be a sustainable product. The study feasibly enables the decision-makers to understand the significant environmental, economic, and social hotspots during the crude palm oil production process in order to promote palm oil production.

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Critical parameters for integrating co-composting of POME and EFB into life cycle assessment models of palm oil production.

Indonesian Journal of Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability ◽

10.52394/ijolcas.v3i1.72 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Victor Baron ◽

Mohamed Saoud ◽

Joni Jupesta ◽

Ikhsan Rezky Praptantyo ◽

Hartono Tirto Admojo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Palm Oil ◽

Oil Production ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

Critical Parameters ◽

Nutrient Recovery ◽

Production Chain ◽

Composting Process ◽

Palm Oil Mill

Palm oil mill’s co-products (empty fruit bunch – EFB and palm oil mill effluent – POME) management is a matter of concern in Indonesia. Co-composting is a promising waste management practice that would allow a reduction of environmental impact and a restitution of organic matter to the soil. This study is a part of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) project and aims to pinpoint the most environmentally impacting compartments of the palm oil production chain. It deals more specifically with the Life Cycle Inventory of data on the composting process based on site specific data. Data on the recycled biomass, energy demand and yielded compost properties were recorded in an industrial palm oil mill over one year. Due to the local conditions, high nutrient leaching from the compost were recorded and the compost remained very wet and hot (thermophilic phase). The composting process only led to 40% of methane avoidance compared to anaerobic digestion of POME, and the global nutrient recovery efficiency was below 50%. We identified the following critical parameters to increase environmental benefits from composting: i) the POME/FFB ratio from the mill ii) the roofing of the composting platform, iii) the POME/EFB ratio, iv) the turning frequency, v) the recycling of leachates and vi) the process duration and drying period. The nutrient recovery and the doses of compost applied in the field depend on all of those inter-connected parameters. The data presented will be used within LCA models to assess net environmental benefits from various POME and EFB co-composting systems.

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Towards Prospective Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment

Volume 6: 25th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC) ◽

10.1115/detc2020-22526 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Abigail R. Clarke-Sather ◽

Saleh Mamun ◽

Daniel Nolan ◽

Patrick Schoff ◽

Matthew Aro ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Environmental Effects ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

Cultural Perspective

Abstract Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well-established tool for measuring environmental effects of existing technology. While the most recent LCA research has focused on environmental impacts, in particular on the effects of climate change, there is growing interest in how LCA can be used prospectively. A 2019 workshop in Duluth, Minnesota sought to define the needs and priorities of prospective life cycle assessment from a perspective that considers diverse viewpoints. In that workshop, participants outlined frameworks for how sustainability impacts might figure into a prospective LCA tool focused on assessing technologies currently under development. Those frameworks included social and economic impacts, which were characterized alongside environmental impacts, with the goal of predicting potential impacts and developing recommendations for improving technologies. Cultural perspective, in particular the roots of the German circular economy, was explored and held up as a reminder that different communities are influenced by different sustainability concerns, leading to diverse policy and cultural prerogatives. The purpose of this paper is to catalyze conversation about how to frame methodologies of existing LCA tools that could be used in a prospective sustainability context.

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