Loughborough University
Browse

File(s) under permanent embargo

Reason: This item is currently closed access.

An overview on green house gas emission characteristics and energy evaluation of ocean energy systems from life cycle assessment and energy accounting studies

journal contribution
posted on 2015-06-02, 10:34 authored by Subhashish Banerjee, L. Duckers, Richard BlanchardRichard Blanchard
An analysis has been made as regards emission characteristics of ocean energy systems from life cycle assessment and scope of energy availability from energy accounting studies. Assessment tools developed and standardized were the indices like scope of Green house gases (GHG) emission per kWh power generation, percentage of CO2 saved compared to coal fired power station and the energy payback period. Emission characteristics of ocean energy systems were also compared with that from solar power, bio-fuels and wind energy systems. Four case studies were made comprising of wave energy converters, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system and tidal energy. It could be observed that CO2 emission percentage saved from ocean energy schemes were more than 95 per cent; and energy payback period varied between one year and a little higher than two years, depending on the type of the device.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Journal of Applied and Natural Sciences

Volume

5

Issue

2

Pages

535 - 540

Citation

BANERJEE, S., DUCKERS, L. and BLANCHARD, R.E., 2013. An overview on green house gas emission characteristics and energy evaluation of ocean energy systems from life cycle assessment and energy accounting studies. Journal of Applied and Natural Sciences, 5 (2), pp. 535 - 540.

Publisher

© Applied and Natural Science Foundation

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This article is closed access.

ISSN

0974-9411

eISSN

2231-5209

Language

  • en

Location

India

Usage metrics

    Loughborough Publications

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC