136133 20240719195437.0 doi 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125774 sideral 122358 ART-2021-122358 eng Guillén-Lambea, S. (orcid)0000-0003-3269-023X A critical review of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with parabolic trough concentrating solar power plants 2021 Numerous research studies have focused on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of solar energy systems, and more concretely, within the last decade, on the environmental performance of parabolic trough solar power plants. Due to ever-increasing global energy demands, the optimization of energy solutions to reduce adverse environmental impacts has been attracting research efforts. The study presented herein reports on the environmental perspective of parabolic through concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, focusing on greenhouse gas emissions. Existing studies on the environmental impacts of parabolic trough CSP plants show significant differences regarding the scope and frontiers of the LCA, database employed, raw materials, lifetime of the CSP plant, and temporal assumptions. The convergences and divergences appearing in the most relevant papers are recompiled, disaggregated by system and LCA phase, identifying the parameters with higher impacts and calculating the influence on environmental issues. The scientific literature review carried out demonstrated a knowledge gap on inventory data for parabolic trough CSP plants. This study provides a framework for the establishment of energy policies and standards, along with data for the environmental optimization of parabolic trough CSP plants. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T55-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ENE2017-87711-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 11.072 2021 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL 9 / 54 = 0.167 2021 Q1 T1 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 5 / 47 = 0.106 2021 Q1 T1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 24 / 279 = 0.086 2021 Q1 T1 1.921 2021 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2021 Q1 Strategy and Management 2021 Q1 Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2021 Q1 15.8 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/review info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Carvalho, M. 289 (2021), 125774 [12 pp.] J. clean. prod. Journal of Cleaner Production 0959-6526 421675 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136133/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1607242 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136133/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:136133 articulos driver 2024-07-19-18:27:52 ARTICLE