An Input-output Analysis for Development of Biodiesel Economy in Taiwan-A Microalgal Biomass Study / 臺灣發展生質柴油經濟之投入產出分析-以微藻生質能為例

碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 應用經濟研究所 / 101 / Because of the exhaustion of fossil energy and the greenhouse effect, the renewable energies attached importance to countries in the world. To substitute fossil energy and develop sustainably, the developing of algal biomass for the development of renewable energy is currently one of the targets in many countries. The advantages of algal biofuels are non-pollution, not consuming resources, not competing food with human being, environmental friendliness and it absorbs the CO2 for the ingredient of cultivating. Although the price of algal biomass energy can not compete with the price of fossil energy, it's still been stressed by nations.
Due to the algal biomass energy which has been promoted over countries, this research evaluates the algal biodiesel both in the developing possibilities and economical influence in Taiwan through the input-output analysis because the model is capable of the topic by its characteristics, for the reference of the government to conduct the supporting policies for industry.
The results reveal that when adding an algal biodiesel industry in benchmark input-output table by year 2006, the output of economics will increase by 0.312 billion NT dollars, the GDP will increase by 77 million dollars. Promoting policy of investment algal biodiesel sector by government’s investment (scenario I) will increase 30.22 billion of the output. The GDP will increase 71.25 billion NT dollars, and investment multiplier will be 1.000005 in each year. Furthermore, promoting policy collocate with B2 and B5 diesel policy (scenario II) will increase 30.032 billion NT dollars in output, the GDP total will increase 7.125 billion dollars, and multiplier of scenario II will be 1.06468 that is higher than the multiplier of scenario I. Results show that algal biodiesel is an emerging industry which is worthy to invest and develop.
The research also calculates the emission of CO2 which using algal biomass diesel instead fossil diesel and shows that will replace 15000 kiloliter fossil diesel in 2013-2025 period, and will reduce 41 thousand tons of CO2. The result shows that it could reach the carbon fixation efficiency of 3.541 billion tons in scenario I and 3.723 billion tons in scenario II. Results reveal that algal biodiesel is a feasible and affordable option for development of alternative energies in Taiwan.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NTOU5452007
Date January 2013
CreatorsYun-Chih Chen, 陳韻之
ContributorsDuu-Hwa Lee, 李篤華
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format73

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