A Comprehensive Decision Support Tool for the Assessment of Feedstocks for Biofuel Production

摘要

This work presents the development of a comprehensive decision support tool for the assessment of biofuel feedstocks through their entire supply chain and impact considering the three pillars of sustainability: environmental, social and economic factors. The study of first and second generation feedstocks includes projections of future values of United States domestic crop supply and demand, economic conditions, the effect on social impact indicators and the generation of environmental assessment. This work is presented in a friendly interface which allows the user to find environmental and social sustainability indicators as well as an ethical responsibility statement of a determined feedstock for biofuel production.