Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Grid-Integrated Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems in Northern Nigeria

Autor: Ismail Abubakar Jumare, Ramchandra Bhandari, A. Zerga
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
020209 energy
Geography
Planning and Development
Umweltbilanz
TJ807-830
Erneuerbare Energien
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
environmental
Renewable energy sources
uncertainty analyses
Nigeria (Nord)
Biogas
life cycle assessment
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Hybrides System
Environmental impact assessment
GE1-350
Baseline (configuration management)
Life-cycle assessment
hybrid renewable energy system
grid-integration
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Photovoltaic system
Environmental economics
Renewable energy
Environmental sciences
Hybrid system
Sustainability
Environmental science
ddc:620
business
policy relevance
Zdroj: Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 21, p 5889 (2019)
Sustainability
Volume 11
Issue 21
Popis: Life cycle assessment is a crucial tool in evaluating systems performances for sustainability and decision-making. This paper provided environmental impact of integrating renewable energy systems to the utility-grid based on a baseline optimized energy production data from &ldquo
HOMER&rdquo
for renewable systems modelling of a site in northern Nigeria. The ultimate goal was to ascertain the best hybrid option(s) in sustaining the environment. Different assumptions and scenarios were modelled and simulated using Ganzleitlichen Bilanz (GaBi). Uncertainty analysis was ensured to the impact data based on pedigree-matrix and Excel-program, as well as overall policy relevance. The results of the impact categories revealed first scenario (i.e., conventional path-based) with the highest impacts on global warming potential (GWP), acidification potential (AP), human toxicity potential (HTP), and abiotic depletion potential (ADPfossils). The lowest impacts arise in the renewable-based scenarios for all the considered categories except the Ozone-layer depletion potential Category where the highest contribution falls in the third scenario (i.e., photovoltaic (PV)/biomass-biogas system) although all values being infinitesimal. In quantitative terms, the reduction in the GWP from the highest being the first scenario to the lowest being the fourth scenario (i.e., wind/biomass-biogas system) was 96.5%. Hence, with the outstanding contributions of the hybrid renewable systems, adopting them especially the lowest impact scenarios with expansions is relevant for environmental sustainability.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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