Data supporting midpoint-weighting life cycle assessment and energy forms of cumulative exergy demand for horticultural crops

Fatemeh Mostashari-Rad; Hassan Ghasemi-Mobtaker; Morteza Taki; Mohammad Ghahderijani; Zahra Saber; Kwok-Wing Chau; Ashkan Nabavi-Pelesaraei

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.106490

Data supporting midpoint-weighting life cycle assessment and energy forms of cumulative exergy demand for horticultural crops

Data Brief. 2020 Nov 4:33:106490. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106490. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Authors

Fatemeh Mostashari-Rad¹, Hassan Ghasemi-Mobtaker², Morteza Taki³, Mohammad Ghahderijani⁴, Zahra Saber⁵, Kwok-Wing Chau⁶, Ashkan Nabavi-Pelesaraei^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
² Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.
³ Department of Agricultural Machinery and Mechanization, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, Iran.
⁴ Department of Agricultural Systems Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
⁵ Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran.
⁶ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
⁷ Head of Process Engineering & Systems Improvement, Management of Fruit and Vegetables Organizations, Tehran Municipality, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

With an increasing demand of horticultural crops, it is critical to examine environmental damages and exergy impacts and evaluate their potential in producing sustainable products of agricultural systems. As such, environmental midpoints of five dominated horticultural products, namely, hazelnut, watermelon, tea, kiwifruit, and citrus, are scrutinized using life cycle assessment approach in Guilan province, Iran. Each crop is considered under a separate scenario and 10 tons of yield is determined as the functional unit. ReCiPe2016, as a new approach, is used for computation of 17 midpoints. Moreover, a weighting analysis is undertaken to find the share of each input in environmental damages with dimensionless notation. In the second part of this paper, cumulative exergy demand (CExD) is applied for evaluation of energy forms in each scenario. Data are presented under two sectors in the main article. The first part is midpoint results of each crop and the second part depicts energy forms of CExD with input rate in each category. Besides, the supplementary files contain raw material of each input, midpoint physical rate, share of each input to contribute midpoint, raw data of weighted damages and share of each input in total weighted damages.

Keywords: Cumulative exergy demand; Environmental midpoint; Horticultural crop; Life cycle assessment; Recipe2016; Weighting.