Joglekar, Saurabh N.
Dalwankar, Gauri
Qureshi, Nishat
Mandavgane, Sachin A.
Article History
Received: 29 May 2020
Accepted: 2 September 2021
First Online: 16 September 2021
Declarations
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: The present work deals with comparison of six different processing routes for sugarcane to get value added products like sugar, 1G ethanol, 2G ethanol, electricity, acetone, and n-butanol by evaluating sustainability index (SI). The sustainability assessment is based on the economic, environment, and social parameters of the process; hence, decision based on SI is balanced and comprehensive. Based on the inventory data available in the literature, life cycle assessment is performed to evaluate the environmental emissions of the processing routes and multicriteria decision method (MIVES) is used to integrate different indicators and criteria to obtain a sustainability index. The work is based on the framework for sustainability assessment proposed by the authors earlier (Joglekar et al. CitationRef removed). Such kind of an assessment can be performed for diverse areas of research that requires process pathway selection using basic preliminary data generated thereby understanding its scope of impact.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.