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To enable the protection of forests against rural fires are foreseen a set of measures for plan-ning and intervention, reduction their risk and impacts. Forest residues collecting centers are being created in Portugal, to reduce undesired thermal charge in nature and for biomass further valorization.
Keeping this in mind, one of the strategies is the energy recovery from these residues in bi-omass power plants that were built in strategic locations. The biomass is mostly natural residu-al forest, agricultural and garden wood and green materials The present work aims to study its environmental impact.
The Life Cycle Assessment methodology, using SimaPro 9.3.0.3 PhD software, was applied to identify the burden of this process and the environmental categories most relevantly affect-ed.
Data achieved showed the importance of the valorization of residual biomass for energy production, reduction the impact categories of abiotic depletion due to fossil fuels, global warming, human toxicity and eutrophication.
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Life Cycle Assessment Agroforestry wastes managment Biomass Energy valorization
Citation
Silva, M. E., Brás, I. P., Raimondo, R., Saetta, R., & Fabbricino, M. (2023). Local waste agroforestry management – biomass to energy analysis with LCA. In WASTES: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities IV: Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference Wastes 2023, 6 – 8 September 2023, Coimbra, Portugal (pp. 127–134). CFC Press, Taylor & Francis. DOI 10.1201/9781003345084
Publisher
CFC Press, Taylor & Francis Group