Author, as appears in the article.: Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: GUILLEN GOSALBEZ, GONZALO; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
Keywords: Enhanced data envelopment analysis Sustainable development DEA (data envelopment analysis)
Abstract: Quantifying the level of sustainability attained by a system is a challenging task due to the need to consider a wide range of economic, environmental and social aspects simultaneously. This work explores the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the sustainability ‘efficiency’ of a system. We propose an enhanced DEA methodology that uses the concept of ‘order of efficiency’ to compare and rank alternatives according to the extent to which they adhere to sustainability principles. The capabilities of the proposed approach are illustrated through a sustainability assessment of different technologies for electricity generation in United Kingdom. In addition to screening the alternatives based on sustainability principles, enhanced DEA provides improvement targets for the least sustainable alternatives that, if achieved, would make them more sustainable. The enhanced DEA shows clearly the ultimate distance to sustainability, helping industry and policy makers to improve the efficiency of technologies, products and policies.
Research group: Sustainable Computer Aided Process Engineering
Thematic Areas: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0098-1354
Author identifier: n/a; n/a; 0000-0002-0973-7338; 0000-0003-2380-918X
Record's date: 2016-09-13
Last page: 200
Journal volume: 90
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098135416301181?via%3Dihub
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2016.04.022
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
First page: 188
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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