Abstract
Agriculture and its allied sector contribute significantly to the gross domestic product of every country. Several small-scale enterprises engaged in waste biomass processing have been setup recently. Such industrial setups not only help in solving the waste management issues but also play an important role in offering employment at the grass root level generating a significant social impact along with economic advantage to the local entrepreneur. Hence, assessment of such biomass processing enterprise (BPE) based on economic, environment, and social parameters has become necessary. In this paper, a general framework for sustainability assessment is discussed using a case study of cow dung–urine biorefinery as a representative BPE. Real-time data of BPE has been collected for evaluation and a sustainability index (SI) is evaluated using multicriteria decision method. The SI is calculated as per the weightage assigned and value function of the indicator and criteria. The SI for the BPE was observed to be 0.69 for the chosen set of criteria and indicator and weightages. A sensitivity analysis has been performed to check the dependence of the results on the weightages assigned to various criteria and indicators. It was also observed that the results were more sensitive to the indicators having a low value function.
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Abbreviations
- AHP:
-
Analytical hierarchy process
- BPE:
-
Biomass processing enterprise
- CD:
-
Cow dung
- CDU:
-
Cow dung–urine
- CU:
-
Cow urine
- CUD:
-
Cow urine distillate
- DC:
-
Dung cakes
- GVAK:
-
Go-Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra
- GWP:
-
Global warming potential
- MIVES:
-
Modelo Integrado de Valor para Estructuras Sostenibles
- SI:
-
Sustainability index
- SLCA:
-
Social life cycle assessment
- VF:
-
Value function
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The authors are thankful to the Department of Science and Technology, India, for providing research grant (Grant No. DST/TDT/TDP-02/2017) to undertake the work. BDK acknowledges the support as SERB Distinguished Fellow.
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Joglekar, S.N., Darwai, V., Mandavgane, S.A. et al. A methodology of evaluating sustainability index of a biomass processing enterprise: a case study of native cow dung–urine biorefinery. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 27435–27448 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-06309-1
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