Next Article in Journal
Analysis of Biomass Blend Co-Firing for Post Combustion CO2 Capture
Next Article in Special Issue
Life Cycle Assessment of a Highly Diverse Vegetable Multi-Cropping System in Fengqiu County, China
Previous Article in Journal
Energy-Saving Potential and an Economic Feasibility Analysis for an Arctic Route between Shanghai and Rotterdam: Case Study from China’s Largest Container Sea Freight Operator
Previous Article in Special Issue
Multi-Environment Evaluation and Genetic Characterisation of Common Bean Breeding Lines for Organic Farming Systems
 
Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
Journals
Sustainability
Volume 10
Issue 4
10.3390/su10040922
sustainability-logo
Submit to this Journal Review for this Journal Edit a Special Issue
► Article Menu

Article Menu

share announcement question_answer thumb_up
...
textsms
...
Article

Parameter Uncertainty Analysis of the Life Cycle Inventory Database: Application to Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Brown Rice Production in IDEA

by
Chun-Youl Baek
1,2,*,
Kiyotaka Tahara
2 and
Kyu-Hyun Park
3
1
Center for Resources Information & Management, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06211, Korea
2
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8569, Japan
3
Department of Animal Industry Convergence, Kangwon National University, 1 Kangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2018, 10(4), 922; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10040922
Received: 9 February 2018 / Revised: 11 March 2018 / Accepted: 17 March 2018 / Published: 22 March 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agroecology: Principles and Application for Efficient and Sustainable Agricultural Production)
View Full-Text Download PDF
Browse Figures

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to develop a simple method for analyzing the parameter uncertainty of the Japanese life cycle inventory database (LCI DB), termed the inventory database for environmental analysis (IDEA). The IDEA has a weakness of poor data quality because over 60% of datasets in IDEA were compiled based on secondary data (non-site-specific data sources). Three different approaches were used to estimate the uncertainty of the brown rice production dataset, including the stochastic modeling approach, the semi-quantitative DQI (Data Quality Indicator) approach, and a modification of the semi-quantitative DQI approach (including two alternative approaches for modification). The stochastic modeling approach provided the best estimate of the true mean of the sample space and its results were used as the reference for comparison with the other approaches. A simple method for the parameter uncertainty analysis of the agriculture industry DB was proposed by modifying the beta distribution parameters (endpoint range, shape parameter) in the semi-quantitative DQI approach using the results from the stochastic modeling approach. The effect of changing the beta distribution parameters in the semi-quantitative DQI approach indicated that the proposed method is an efficient method for the quantitative parameter uncertainty analysis of the brown rice production dataset in the IDEA. View Full-Text
Keywords: semi-quantitative DQI approach; GHG emissions; parameter uncertainty analysis; brown rice production; inventory database for environmental analysis (IDEA) semi-quantitative DQI approach; GHG emissions; parameter uncertainty analysis; brown rice production; inventory database for environmental analysis (IDEA)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
SciFeed

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Baek, C.-Y.; Tahara, K.; Park, K.-H. Parameter Uncertainty Analysis of the Life Cycle Inventory Database: Application to Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Brown Rice Production in IDEA. Sustainability 2018, 10, 922. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10040922

AMA Style

Baek C-Y, Tahara K, Park K-H. Parameter Uncertainty Analysis of the Life Cycle Inventory Database: Application to Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Brown Rice Production in IDEA. Sustainability. 2018; 10(4):922. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10040922

Chicago/Turabian Style

Baek, Chun-Youl, Kiyotaka Tahara, and Kyu-Hyun Park. 2018. "Parameter Uncertainty Analysis of the Life Cycle Inventory Database: Application to Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Brown Rice Production in IDEA" Sustainability 10, no. 4: 922. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10040922

Find Other Styles
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.

Article Metrics

Article Access Map by Country/Region

1
Back to TopTop