TY - JOUR

T1 - Data for life cycle assessment of legume biorefining for alcohol

AU - Lienhardt, Theophile

AU - Black, Kirsty

AU - Saget, Sophie

AU - Porto Costa, Marcela

AU - Chadwick, Dave

AU - Rees, Robert M.

AU - Williams, Michael

AU - Spillane, Charles

AU - Iannetta, Pietro M

AU - Walker, Graeme

AU - Styles, David

PY - 2019/8

Y1 - 2019/8

N2 - Benchmarking the environmental sustainability of alcohol produced from legume starch against alcohol produced from cereal grains requires considering of crop production, nutrient cycling and use of protein-rich co-products via life cycle assessment. This article describes the mass balance flows behind the life cycle inventories for gin produced from wheat and peas (Pisum sativum L.) in an associated article summarising the environmental footprints of wheat- and pea-gin [1], and also presents detailed supplementary results. Activity data were collected from interviews with actors along the entire gin value chain including a distillery manager and ingredient and packaging suppliers. Important fertiliser and animal-feed substitution effects of co-product use were derived using detailed information and models on nutrient flows and animal feed composition, along with linear optimisation modelling. Secondary data on environmental burdens of specific materials and processes were obtained from the Ecoinvent v3.4 life cycle assessment database. This article provides a basis for further quantitative evaluation of the environmental sustainability of legume-alcohol value chains.

AB - Benchmarking the environmental sustainability of alcohol produced from legume starch against alcohol produced from cereal grains requires considering of crop production, nutrient cycling and use of protein-rich co-products via life cycle assessment. This article describes the mass balance flows behind the life cycle inventories for gin produced from wheat and peas (Pisum sativum L.) in an associated article summarising the environmental footprints of wheat- and pea-gin [1], and also presents detailed supplementary results. Activity data were collected from interviews with actors along the entire gin value chain including a distillery manager and ingredient and packaging suppliers. Important fertiliser and animal-feed substitution effects of co-product use were derived using detailed information and models on nutrient flows and animal feed composition, along with linear optimisation modelling. Secondary data on environmental burdens of specific materials and processes were obtained from the Ecoinvent v3.4 life cycle assessment database. This article provides a basis for further quantitative evaluation of the environmental sustainability of legume-alcohol value chains.

KW - Pea

KW - Legumes

KW - life cycle assessment

KW - animal feed

KW - DDGS

KW - Distillation

KW - Ethanol

M3 - Article

JO - Data in Brief

JF - Data in Brief

SN - 2352-3409

M1 - 104242

ER -