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Sustainability of Utilizing Renewable and Nuclear Energy in Saudi Arabia Using Different Types of Life Cycle Assessment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sustainability of Utilizing Renewable and Nuclear Energy in Saudi Arabia Using Different Types of Life Cycle Assessment./
Author:	Almutairi, Kamel.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	163 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-03A.
Subject:	Environmental economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10844416
ISBN:	9780438269972

Sustainability of Utilizing Renewable and Nuclear Energy in Saudi Arabia Using Different Types of Life Cycle Assessment.
Almutairi, Kamel.

Sustainability of Utilizing Renewable and Nuclear Energy in Saudi Arabia Using Different Types of Life Cycle Assessment. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 163 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arkansas, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Evaluating the global environmental impacts of the current and future energy policies in Saudi Arabia using Life cycle assessment (LCA) method was the main objective of this dissertation. First, the attributional life cycle assessment (ALCA) framework was used to evaluate the Saudi's air conditioning systems, as they are responsible for about 70% of the total Saudi residential electricity consumption. The ALCA's results showed that the AC use phase produces the largest share of the environmental impact and the magnitude of the environmental impacts is influenced by the type of primary fuel used for electricity generation. Emerging non-fossil sources of electricity may be the intuitive solution to reduce environmental impacts. Saudi Arabia has an ambitious plan to meet 50% of its electricity needs with renewable and nuclear energy. Implementing this plan will free up more of the Saudi oil for export, affecting the country and the rest of the world, since Saudi is the world largest oil exporter. To predict global economic shifts that would be triggered by that plan, a modified version of well-known computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), was used. The study showed that fossil fuel energy prices and ease of substitution for the fossil fuel electricity technologies are the main drivers for the emergence of renewable and nuclear energy. As the GTAP's CO2 emissions data only account for burned fossil fuels, there is a need to perform the study using a comprehensive method. That was done by performing a consequential perspective LCA. The results of this LCA showed that harmful environmental impacts would be reduced in Saudi Arabia. For the rest of the world, the impacts were largely negative. Finally, an ex-ante analysis was done to study the economic, social and environmental impacts of large-scale global electricity generation targets to utilize renewable and nuclear energy by 2030. The study showed a deteriorated GDP in most regions. The world would face a loss of 4.45 million jobs. The environment benefits of the targeted renewable and nuclear energy would be slight and not enough to mitigate the global temperature rise.

ISBN: 9780438269972Subjects--Topical Terms:

535179
Environmental economics.

Sustainability of Utilizing Renewable and Nuclear Energy in Saudi Arabia Using Different Types of Life Cycle Assessment.
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