Soil biotreatment effectiveness for reducing global warming potential from main polluting tillage operations in life cycle assessment phase

Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Farm Level

“…Efforts are also being made to find methods and tools to calculate GHG emissions, and one such method is life cycle analysis. The maximum effectiveness of biopreparations for CO2 eq reduction during the LCA phase via fixed soil tillage was approximately 15% for the mixed biopreparation variant in first year, approximately 8% for the mixed biopreparation variant in the second year, and approximately 30% for the mixed biopreparation variant in the third year (Figure 5) [9]. Other researchers have also developed similar platforms for GHG calculation, but their basis was a questionnaire assessment, which is not always attractive and methodologically efficient; some examples of this methodology are the assessment of production-induced GHG pollution via survey [10], as well as software-based assessment of the specific GHG emissions of olive farms [11].…”

Life cycle assessment of bio-based levoglucosan production from cotton straw through fast pyrolysis

“…The diesel consumption for transportation was affected by several factors, such as the type and speed of the trucks and the weight of the products (Naujokienė et al, 2019).…”

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Pod Sealants in Increasing Pod Shattering Resistance in Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus L.)

“…While, in the study of Saarinen et al [43], the determined carbon footprint of rapeseed cultivation was 1480 kg CO 2 eq Mg −1 . Naujokienė et al [44] in a Lithuanian study found that the carbon footprint for winter oilseed rape (WOSR) cultivation depends on soil biopreparation and varies in range from 682.00 to 1136.89 kg CO 2 eq Mg −1 . It can be concluded from the LCA results that the global warming potential (GWP) for OSR production in Italian regions amounts to 1106 kg CO 2 eq Mg −1 in Sardinia [45] and to 1300 kg CO 2 eq Mg −1 of seed generated in the Campania [46].…”

“…Emissions from the farm stage are much more than others and consist 78% (direct 1587.6 kg CO 2 eq and indirect 848.0 kg CO 2 eq) [49]. The total GWP (kg CO 2 eq) is a crucial factor, in which variations can also be addressed for other GHG changes and dependencies [44].…”

“…There is a large amount of published LCA studies of OSR cultivation, especially about feedstock for biofuels production. Many researchers used LCA to study environmental impacts in production of OSR [40,44,49,52,53]. A wide range of calculators have been developed to assess the GHG emissions of agricultural products [54].…”