Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from corn silage fermentation.

ABSTRACT: The European Climate Law recently codified the goal for European climate neutrality by 2050, highlighting the need for sustainable farming practices within a robust and transparent carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) accounting system. In the present study, a series of equations were proposed for the estimation of CO₂e emissions from corn silage fermentation. Systematic review of previous meta-analyses of corn silage fermentation identified the mean and standard deviation statistics for key model inputs of acetic acid, ethanol, lactic acid, ammonia, and volatile-corrected dry matter loss. Estimates of CO₂e emissions were determined for a mock dataset comprising 1,000 iterations of randomly-generated values for each metric in accordance with mean and variance s

SUBMITTER: Krueger LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9869070 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature