Applicazione della Metodologia LCA(Life Cycle Assesment): La sostenibilità ambientale di Impianti a Biomassa della regione Emilia Romagna

The study that the candidate has worked in the PhD project is part of the complex process of solving the energy problem that necessarily involves different variables: economic, technical, political and social. The aim is to express an opinion on the actual “convenience" of the exploitation of renewable resources. The path chosen was to analyze some systems of exploitation, study their impact on the environment and finally compare them. This made it possible to find objective evidence to assess. In particular, the candidate has discussed the issue of resource "biomass" by analyzing in detail some industries in the Territory of the Emilia-Romagna: plants micro chain, short chain and long chain. With the collaboration of ARPA Emilia-Romagna, CISA Center and Prof. Ciancabilla Association, was made a choice of systems to be analyzed: a micro-industry: wood chip industry in Castel d'Aiano; a short chain: biogas production in industry of agricultural biomass "Mengoli" in Castenaso and finally in long chain: industry of solid biomass "Tampieri Energies" of Faenza. With regard to the methodology used to study has been carried out a study of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). By using the software "SimaPro 6.0", the results for the impact categories of facilities considering methods "Eco Indicator 99" and "Edip Umip 96". The comparison between the results of the different systems did not lead to general conclusions, but in-depth assessments specific to each industry analyzed, given the multiplicity of variables of all reality, both for the size / scale (micro-industry, short chain and long chain) that as regards the typology biomass used.