TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimising sustainability
T2 - Circular pathways for Scotch Whisky distillery co-products
AU - Duffy, Colm
AU - Styles, David
AU - Schestak, Isabel
AU - Macgregor, Kenneth
AU - Jack, Frances
AU - Henn, Daniel
AU - Black, Kirsty
AU - Iannetta, Pietro P.M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/4/1
Y1 - 2023/4/1
N2 - The use of co-products for animal feed can potentially have a higher greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and water scarcity offset compared to bio-energy (bio-electricity/fuel) production. We cluster 136 Scotch Whisky distilleries and evaluate the co-product pathways for the production of animal-feed and/or bio-energy at centralised processing facilities. Production of animal feed, and the subsequent displacement of imported animal feed, offered the most significant GHG offset, which was between a factor of c.a. 2.5 to 8 times greater than the bio-electricity/fuel and bio-energy/feed scenarios. This offers significant potential from a global net-zero carbon emissions perspective. However, this comes at a cost to local energy security potential. Bio-electricity produced in the electricity intensive scenarios was 481 GWh per year. This would significantly increase Scotland's bio-energy production and equates to c.a. 5% of Scotland's non-commercial electricity needs.
AB - The use of co-products for animal feed can potentially have a higher greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and water scarcity offset compared to bio-energy (bio-electricity/fuel) production. We cluster 136 Scotch Whisky distilleries and evaluate the co-product pathways for the production of animal-feed and/or bio-energy at centralised processing facilities. Production of animal feed, and the subsequent displacement of imported animal feed, offered the most significant GHG offset, which was between a factor of c.a. 2.5 to 8 times greater than the bio-electricity/fuel and bio-energy/feed scenarios. This offers significant potential from a global net-zero carbon emissions perspective. However, this comes at a cost to local energy security potential. Bio-electricity produced in the electricity intensive scenarios was 481 GWh per year. This would significantly increase Scotland's bio-energy production and equates to c.a. 5% of Scotland's non-commercial electricity needs.
KW - Anaerobic digestion
KW - Circular economy
KW - Climate change
KW - Consequential LCA
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148327632&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136436
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136436
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148327632
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 395
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
M1 - 136436
ER -
