Green Industry for Low Carbon Economy: Palm Oil Green Assessment Tool

Published Date
Energy Procedia
2014, Vol.61:2759–2762, doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.12.299
International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE2014
Open Access, Creative Commons license

Author 

• Haslenda Hashim ^a,b
 
• Siti Maryam Abu Bakar ^a
 
• Jeng Shiun Lim ^a,b

• aFaculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia
• bPalm Oil Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia

Available online 12 January 2015.

Abstract

The environmental global issues inspire the industries including the palm oil industry, to reduce the environmental harmful effect and save the energy usage by green practice. However, the specific tools to assess the green level for the palm oil industry are currently not available. This paper presents a new systematic tool, known as Green Industrial Performance Scorecard (GIPS) to create green industry profiling besides highlighting the potential improvement of green performance through visualisation. GIPS comprises of five green components i.e energy, water, waste, soil management and air. Palm oil mill (POM) is selected as a case study to evaluate the applicability of GIPS.

Keywords

Palm oil industry

Green Industrial Performance Scorecard

green industry profiling.

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