Print Email Facebook Twitter Measuring the Importance of Decision-Making Criteria in Biofuel Production Technology Selection Title Measuring the Importance of Decision-Making Criteria in Biofuel Production Technology Selection Author Kheybari, Siamak (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) Mahdi Rezaie, Fariba (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) Rezaei, J. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Date 2019 Abstract Environmental problems, combined with a finite supply of fossil fuels, have made the use of renewable energy sources necessary. Biomass is a renewable source of energy that has played a very important role in energy production in recent years. Because there are a number of technologies that can be used to convert biomass into energy, it is important to select the best option. The fact that multiple options are available that need to be evaluated based on a set of decision-making criteria makes this a multicriteria decision-making problem. This paper takes the first step in proposing an evaluation framework and identifying the importance of the relevant decision-making criteria in biofuel production technology selection. To determine the importance of the selection criteria, experts were asked to respond to an online questionnaire based on the best-worst method. The results indicate that air pollution, land use change, and human expertise are the three most important criteria for selecting the best biofuel production technology in our case country, Iran. Subject Best–worst method (BWM)biofuel production technologybiomassrenewable energysustainability assessment framework To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a2a310c7-258b-4918-93ea-5a899d2b3b88 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2019.2908037 Embargo date 2019-11-01 ISSN 0018-9391 Source IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 68 (2), 483-497 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Siamak Kheybari, Fariba Mahdi Rezaie, J. Rezaei Files PDF 08704331.pdf 4.42 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a2a310c7-258b-4918-93ea-5a899d2b3b88/datastream/OBJ/view