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Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2016-01-01

Journal:FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN

Included Journals:SCIE

Volume:25

Issue:11

Page Number:4537-4546

ISSN No.:1018-4619

Key Words:Wind Resources Exploitation; Life Cycle Assessment; Environmental Impacts; Environmental Benefits

Abstract:Coal-fired power is absolute predominance in China's power sector. Energy-saving and emission reduction benefits have been more and more attention and interest by our government and people, which speeds up the development and utilization of renewable energy sources, in particular the development of wind energy resources. For the healthy and orderly development of wind farms, one life cycle assessment model of wind farm is built on context of China in the study. We have a specific wind farm project as a functional unit. And applies life cycle assessment to analyze its energy consumption input-output and environmental impact. The primary energy use, greenhouse gas (GHG), electricity generation and loss of carbon sequestration capacity of the full wind farm life cycle are calculated. In the study, we also forecast mainly pollutants SO2, NOX and GHG emission reductions which from electricity generation in fossil fuel fired power plants that are displaced by one wind farm. We propose a simplified calculation method only related to comprehensive coal consumption and pollutant discharge rate, to effectively standardize and quickly calculate the environmental benefits of wind farm.