Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of renewable dimethyl ether fuelled heavy-duty trucks
Margarita A. Charalambous, Víctor Tulus, Morten Ryberg, Javier Pérez‐Ramírez, Gonzalo Guillén‐Gosálbez
Abstract
from fossil plants, would increase the greenhouse gas emissions relative to the business-as-usual. Only scenarios based on renewable carbon could reduce the impacts on climate change, while hydrogen from biomass gasification coupled with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and DME from biomass gasification with CCS could enable an environmentally sustainable operation within all the planetary boundaries. Overall, our work opens up new avenues for the environmental assessment of fuels considering the finite capacity of the Earth system to guide research and policy-making more sensibly.
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TruckHeavy dutySustainabilityDimethyl etherDutyWaste managementRenewable energyBusinessEnvironmental scienceEngineeringChemistryAutomotive engineeringLawPolitical scienceOrganic chemistryEcologyElectrical engineeringBiologyMethanolEnergy, Environment, and Transportation PoliciesEnvironmental Impact and SustainabilityElectric Vehicles and Infrastructure