A critical review of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with parabolic trough concentrating solar power plants

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:289

Review

Guillen-Lambea, Silvia^1,2  Carvalho, Monica³ 

[1] Univ Ctr Def, Ctra Huesca S-N, Zaragoza 50090, Spain

[2] Univ Zaragoza, Thermal Engn & Energy Syst Grp GITSE, Aragon Inst Engn Res I3A, Agustin Betancourt Bldg,C Maria de Luna 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain

[3] Univ Fed Paraiba, Dept Renewable Energy Engn, Campus 1,Cidade Univ S-N, BR-58051970 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil

关键词: Carbon footprint;    Parabolic trough;    Concentrated solar power;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125774

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Numerous research studies have focused on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of solar energy systems, and more concretely, within the last decade, on the environmental performance of parabolic trough solar power plants. Due to ever-increasing global energy demands, the optimization of energy solutions to reduce adverse environmental impacts has been attracting research efforts. The study presented herein reports on the environmental perspective of parabolic through concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, focusing on greenhouse gas emissions. Existing studies on the environmental impacts of parabolic trough CSP plants show significant differences regarding the scope and frontiers of the LCA, database employed, raw materials, lifetime of the CSP plant, and temporal assumptions. The convergences and divergences appearing in the most relevant papers are recompiled, disaggregated by system and LCA phase, identifying the parameters with higher impacts and calculating the influence on environmental issues. The scientific literature review carried out demonstrated a knowledge gap on inventory data for parabolic trough CSP plants. This study provides a framework for the establishment of energy policies and standards, along with data for the environmental optimization of parabolic trough CSP plants. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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