Life Cycle Costs and Life Cycle Assessment for the Harvesting, Conversion, and the Use of Switchgrass to Produce Electricity

<table class="table-group" id="tab14"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"> </td><td align="center">Low emission rate kt CO<sub>2</sub> eq. per TWh</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Diesel engine power plant</td><td align="center">649</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Natural gas turbine power plant</td><td align="center">422</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Oil-fired steam-cycle power plant</td><td align="center">841</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Coal-fired steam-cycle power plant</td><td align="center">941</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions (kt eq. CO<sub>2</sub> per Twh) [<a href="/journals/ijce/2013/492058/#B59">47</a>].

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Table 14: Life Cycle Costs and Life Cycle Assessment for the Harvesting, Conversion, and the Use of Switchgrass to Produce Electricity 