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EUBCE 2024 - José Eduardo HOLLER BRANCO - Assessing the Greenhouse Gases Emissions of Biodiesel Supply Chain in Brazil: A Life Cycle Aproach

Assessing the Greenhouse Gases Emissions of Biodiesel Supply Chain in Brazil: A Life Cycle Aproach

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Climate change assessments: from case studies to system investigations

Assessing the Greenhouse Gases Emissions of Biodiesel Supply Chain in Brazil: A Life Cycle Aproach

Short Introductive summary

Currently in Brazil it is mandatory to mix biodiesel in commercial fossil diesel. The National Council for Energy Policies (CNPE) determined a mandatory fraction of 13% biodiesel from April 2023, with a gradual increase in the mixture until reaching the fraction of 15% of biodiesel in commercial petrol diesel in 2026. Brazil has 60 biodiesel production plants in operation, which produced 6.0 million cubic meters of biodiesel in 2022. Regarding the biomass, currently approximately 77% of biodiesel produced in the country is made from the use of soybeans, followed by the use of other fatty materials (8.4%), beef tallow (7.6%), oil palm oil which corresponds to 2.16% and others, such as used frying oil and cottonseed oil (5.2%). This article aims to calculate the average carbon intensity of biodiesel produced in the country, considering a Life Cycle Analysis (Well-to-Wheel) approach, and also aims to estimate the GHG emissions that will be avoided by 2030 in the country’s diesel consumption after the Resolution No. 16 of the National Energy Policy Council, which gradually increases the mandatory mixture of biodiesel in diesel sold from 2023 onwards.

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José Eduardo HOLLER BRANCO

University of São Paulo, Quemicle and Production Engineering Dpt., BRAZIL

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Professor at Engineering School of Lorena at University of São Paulo Research area: Sustainability of Supply Chains

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Co-authors:

J. E. Holler Btanco, University of São Paulo, Lorena, BRAZIL
R. Prates, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, BRAZIL
A. K. Furtado de Carvalho, University of São Paulo, Lorena, BRAZIL
A. L. N. Oliveira, University of São Paulo, Lorena, BRAZIL

Session reference: 2BV.7.7