Analysis of the human health damage and ecosystem quality impact of the palm oil plantation using the life cycle assessment approach

International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology 2018

能源学;生态环境科学

Obaideen, Khaled^1 ; Chai Tan, Yong^2 ; Seng Yap, Pow^3 ; Awang, Muhamad^4 ; Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim^5 ; Subramaniam, Vijaya^6 ; Cent Tai, Vin^2

Institute of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, SEGi University, Malaysia^1

Centre for Modelling and Simulation, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, SEGi University, Malaysia^2

Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Curtin University Malaysia, Malaysia^3

Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia^4

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia^5

Engineering and Processing Division, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Malaysia^6

关键词: Fresh fruits;    Human health;    Human health damages;    Land-use change;    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA);    Life cycle impact assessment;    Ozone depletion;    Quality impact;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/268/1/012036/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/268/1/012036

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In recent years the palm oil has been criticized because of its impacts on the environment and human health. Therefore, this study focused on the investigation of human health and ecosystem quality impacts that arose from the plantation of fresh fruit bunch of palm oil by employing an open-source software, namely OpenLCA version 1.5. The life cycle assessment approach was used for the analysis of the investigated impacts. The effects of land use changes on the human health and ecosystem quality were assessed. By employing ReCiPe Endpoint methodology in life cycle impact assessment phase the total ecosystems impact 0.00017 species per year while total human health damage was 0.00146 DALY The results showed that the land use change has an impact on all the impacts categories except the freshwater eutrophication, freshwater ecotoxicity, ozone depletion, terrestrial ecotoxicity, and terrestrial acidification. In addition, the analysis showed that the application of the fertilizers and pesticides were the main contributor in all the impact categories. The results show that transportation is not the major contributor in any one of the impact categories.