Abstract
The world is currently facing a scarcity of energy resources in the electricity generation sector. The current pattern of electricity generation has brought harm to the environment. Fuel cell provides a huge potential in reducing the negative environmental impacts. Malaysia as a tropical country has abundant sources of biogas production that can be fed into the fuel to produce electricity and water. The paper aimed to identify the environmental impact towards the consumption of biogas feeding into fuel cells for electricity generation. The result showed that in this modelling of system boundary, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were high due to large contributions from the transportation and storage processes. Hopefully, the outcome from this study could help future researchers or stakeholders in making decisions to design fuel cells for electricity generation with minimum environmental impact contribution.Keywords: Biogas, fuel cell, electricity generation, LCA, sustainabilityJEL Classifications: C32; O13; O47DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.9957
Highlights
Due to the unsustainability issue of fossil fuel supply, the world is urged to explore new types of energy resources
Fuel cell is among the many types of energy resources that is able to fulfil the future need of electricity
Amid the wide range of fuel cell types, it is found that solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) offer many benefits; for instance, high functional temperature, ability to utilise numerous fuels as input, and ability to be combined with other electric generator devices (Mehrpooya et al, 2020)
Summary
Due to the unsustainability issue of fossil fuel supply, the world is urged to explore new types of energy resources. Fuel cells are more effective than the present use of combustion technologies in power plants They might play a significant future part in reducing the reliance on fossil fuel and increasing the electricity generation capacity from biomass supply (Wasajja et al, 2020). Amid the wide range of fuel cell types, it is found that solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) offer many benefits; for instance, high functional temperature, ability to utilise numerous fuels as input, and ability to be combined with other electric generator devices (Mehrpooya et al, 2020). According to (Aziz and Hanafiah, 2020; Cozzolino et al, 2017), the SOFC system has a small value for economic investment due to the huge levelised cost of energy (LCOE) value, is more lenient to pollutants, and has the lowest energy cost
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