Autor según el artículo: Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
Departamento: Enginyeria Química
Autor/es de la URV: GUILLEN GOSALBEZ, GONZALO; Ángel Galán-Martína; Laurence Stamford; Adisa Azapagic
Palabras clave: Enhanced data envelopment analysis Sustainable development DEA (data envelopment analysis)
Resumen: 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.
Grupo de investigación: Sustainable Computer Aided Process Engineering
Áreas temáticas: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0098-1354
Identificador del autor: n/a; n/a; 0000-0002-0973-7338; 0000-0003-2380-918X
Fecha de alta del registro: 2016-09-13
Página final: 200
Volumen de revista: 90
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098135416301181?via%3Dihub
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2016.04.022
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2016
Página inicial: 188
Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article
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