Integrated assessment Sample Clauses

Integrated assessment. The integrated sustainability assessment joins and connects results on individual sustainabil- ity aspects to give an integrated view on sustainability of the BIOCORE biorefining concept. In a first step (chapter 5.5.1), indicators and results for relevant scenarios are collected from the assessments of individual sustainability aspects. All these scenarios and all this data are based on life cycle comparisons of potential biorefineries according to the BIOCORE concept with conventional (mostly petroleum-based) systems that would be replaced. Where applica- ble, additional integrating indicators such as CO2 avoidance costs are added. This results in an integrated comparison of BIOCORE with conventional systems and in comparisons among BIOCORE scenarios. In a second step (chapter 5.5.2), potential biorefineries according to the BIOCORE concept are compared to competing alternative biomass-based systems because the supply of bio- mass is expected to be a limiting factor. This is done via specific benchmarking procedures for each aspect to be analysed.