Data for life cycle assessment of legume biorefining for alcohol.

ABSTRACT: Benchmarking the environmental sustainability of alcohol produced from legume starch against alcohol produced from cereal grains requires considering of crop production, nutrient cycling and use of protein-rich co-products via life cycle assessment. This article describes the mass balance flows behind the life cycle inventories for gin produced from wheat and peas (Pisum sativum L.) in an associated article summarising the environmental footprints of wheat- and pea-gin [1], and also presents detailed supplementary results. Activity data were collected from interviews with actors along the entire gin value chain including a distillery manager and ingredient and packaging suppliers. Important fertiliser and animal-feed substitution effects of co-product use were derived using detailed inform

SUBMITTER: Lienhardt T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6715788 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature