Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 245, Issue -, Pages 18-26Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.08.070
Keywords
Cellulosic ethanol; Dry acid pretreatment and biodetoxification (DryPB); Wastewater generation; Energy consumption; Minimum ethanol selling price (MESP)
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB707406]
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Energy consumption and wastewater generation in cellulosic ethanol production are among the determinant factors on overall cost and technology penetration into fuel ethanol industry. This study analyzed the energy consumption and wastewater generation by the new biorefining process technology, dry acid pretreatment and biodetoxification (DryPB), as well as by the current mainstream technologies. DryPB minimizes the steam consumption to 8.63 GJ and wastewater generation to 7.71 tons in the core steps of biorefining process for production of one metric ton of ethanol, close to 7.83 GJ and 8.33 tons in corn ethanol production, respectively. The relatively higher electricity consumption is compensated by large electricity surplus from lignin residue combustion. The minimum ethanol selling price (MESP) by DryPB is below $2/gal and falls into the range of corn ethanol production cost. The work indicates that the technical and economical gap between cellulosic ethanol and corn ethanol has been almost filled up.
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