Abstract

JIMENEZ BORGES, Reinier et al. Evaluation of sustainability for the sugarcane biomass from the AHP Method. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.1, pp. 73-79.  Epub Feb 03, 2020. ISSN 2218-3620.

This research focuses on demonstrating the use of the process of analytical hierarchy (AHP) and the MCDA technique to address the problem that exists in our country of the non-existence of current methodologies that incorporate ecological economy indicators for the evaluation of sustainability in the Harnessing the cane biomass. The judgments issued on the pairwise comparisons for the combustion of the biomass sources studied with respect to each criterion and sub-criterion. The results obtained from the AHP analysis show that the emergence and exergy criteria are considered as the most important factors for the evaluation of biomass sustainability, with a PVE of 0.539 and 0.297 respectively, followed by the energy analysis (PVE = 0.164). Based on these preference criteria for the evaluation of the potential of sugarcane biomass, it can be verified that the most suitable alternative for the conversion of biomass into energy is the combustion of bagasse, followed by the combustion of bagasse-AHR.

Keywords : Multicriteria decision analysis; bagasse; analytical hierarchy process; Agricultural Harvest Residues (AHR).

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