Evaluating sustainable green development through advanced production techniques by using MDEMATEL technique

Nowadays, the transport sector is trying to face climate change and to contribute to a sustainable world by introducing modern after-treatment systems or by using biofuels. In sectors such as road freight transportation, agricultural or cogeneration in which the electrification is not considered feasible with the current infrastructure, renewable options for diesel engines such as alcohols produced from waste or lignocellulosic materials with advanced production techniques show a significant potential to reduce the life-cycle greenhouse emissions with respect to diesel fuel. This study concludes that lignocellulosic biobutanol can achieve 60% lower greenhouse gas emissions than diesel fuel. Butanol-diesel blends, with up to 40% butanol content, could be successfully used in a diesel engine calibrated for 100% diesel fuel without any additional engine modification nor electronic control unit recalibration at a warm ambient temperature. When n-butanol is introduced, particulate matter emissions are sharply reduced for butanol contents up to 16% (by volume), whereas NOX emissions are not negatively affected. Butanol-diesel blends could be introduced without startability problems up to 13% (by volume) butanol content at a cold ambient temperature. Therefore, biobutanol can be considered as an interesting option to be blended with diesel fuel, contributing to the decarbonization of these sectors.

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Green Development

Sustainable Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3817-2.ch034 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 771-804

Author(s):

Bülent Doğru ◽

Hikmet Gülçin Beken

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Current Status ◽

Energy Sources ◽

General Tendency ◽

Development Models ◽

Green Development ◽

Production Techniques

The focus of this chapter is to assess green or sustainable development concept because of its increased importance throughout the world. Droughts, environmental degradation, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions are important problems that the humankind have been facing since the Industrial Revolution. Renewable energy sources can be used to overcome these problems. The general tendency of modern-day societies is to transform traditional production techniques and development models to new renewable energy sources and also move towards to sustainable development path. Therefore, this study tries to explain current status of Norway, China and Turkey in terms of their renewable energy sources and policy implementations.

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Green Development

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability - Handbook of Research on Green Economic Development Initiatives and Strategies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0440-5.ch009 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 169-202

Author(s):

Bülent Doğru ◽

Hikmet Gülçin Beken

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Current Status ◽

Energy Sources ◽

General Tendency ◽

Development Models ◽

Green Development ◽

Production Techniques

The focus of this chapter is to assess green or sustainable development concept because of its increased importance throughout the world. Droughts, environmental degradation, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions are important problems that the humankind have been facing since the Industrial Revolution. Renewable energy sources can be used to overcome these problems. The general tendency of modern-day societies is to transform traditional production techniques and development models to new renewable energy sources and also move towards to sustainable development path. Therefore, this study tries to explain current status of Norway, China and Turkey in terms of their renewable energy sources and policy implementations.

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Cloud Computing, Cross-Border Data Flows and New Challenges for Measurement in Economics

National Institute Economic Review ◽

10.1177/002795011924900112 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 249 ◽

pp. R30-R38 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Diane Coyle ◽

David Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Business Models ◽

General Purpose ◽

Cloud Services ◽

Process Innovations ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Economic Statistics ◽

Data Flows ◽

Production Techniques ◽

Advanced Production

When economists talk about ‘measurement’ they tend to refer to metrics that can capture changes in quantity, quality and distribution of goods and services. In this paper we argue that the digital transformation of the economy, particularly the rise of cloud computing as a general-purpose technology, can pose serious challenges to traditional concepts and practices of economic measurement. In the first part we show how quality-adjusted prices of cloud services have been falling rapidly over the past decade, which is currently not captured by the deflators used in official statistics. We then discuss how this enabled the spread of data-driven business models, while also lowering entry barriers to advanced production techniques such as artificial intelligence or robotic-process-automation. It is likely that these process innovations are not fully measured at present. A final challenge to measurement arises from the fragmentation of value chains across borders and increasing use of intangible intermediate inputs such as intellectual property and data. While digital technologies make it very easy for these types of inputs to be transferred within or between companies, existing economic statistics often fail to capture them at all.

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