Australia-japan Telecoupling Of Wind Power-based Green Ammonia For Passenger Transportation: Efficiency, Impacts, And Sustainability

October 13, 2022 - Lu, Hongfang; Lin, Bin-Le; Campbell, Daniel E.; Wang, Yanjia; Duan, Wenqi; Han, Taotao; Wang, Jun; Ren, Hai

Journal or Book Title: RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Volume/Issue: 168

Year Published: 2022

Ammonia is a renewable energy medium appropriate for distant trading; therefore, many countries and com-panies have formulated ambitious strategies to develop energy transitions to use green ammonia for trans-portation systems. However, the associated social, economic and environmental impacts, and the overall viability and sustainability of these transitions are still a mystery, because of the lack of sufficiently complicated evalu-ations. To fill this gap, an integrated life cycle assessment and emergy evaluation (LCA-EME) method was developed and applied to synthesize, compare and recognize the hotspot nodes of resource depletion, emissions and impacts, and to quantify the exploitation and utilization efficiencies, environmental loadings and sustain -ability of the Australia-Japan telecoupling of wind power-based ammonia for electric vehicles (EV) and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV) used for passenger transportation, compared with two fossil fuel-based EV transportation systems. The results revealed that the transition to ammonia-based fuels can reduce nonrenewable energy consumption by >29.64% and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by >10.00%; however, the demand for emergy resources >2.03 times and biotic endpoint impacts >1.56 times, both of which mainly occurred in the sending subsystem of the telecoupling interaction. The results highlighted the necessity of internalizing the 'external' resource stress and its biotic impacts, increasing the utilization efficiency and the recycling rate of minerals and fresh water, and decreasing the endpoint impacts to guarantee the sustainability of the telecoupled energy transitions. Integrated LCA-EME was confirmed as a valuable tool for handling complex, multi-nodal nexus problems of telecoupling, which is widely needed for energy transition strategy making.

DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112884

Type of Publication: Article

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