Journal
BIOMASS & BIOENERGY
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages 208-217Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.10.028
Keywords
Fast pyrolysis; Biomass; Techno-economic; Bio-oil; Bio-char; Energy crops
Funding
- EPSRC
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A number of papers and reports covering the techno-economic analysis of bio-oil production has been published. These have had different scopes, use different feed-stocks and reflected national cost structures. This paper reviews and compares their cost estimates and the experimental results that underpin them. A comprehensive cost and performance model was produced based on consensus data from the previous studies or stated scenarios where data is not available that reflected UK costs. The model takes account sales of bio-char that is a co-product of pyrolysis and the electricity consumption of the pyrolysis plant and biomass pre-processing plants. It was concluded that it should be able to produce bio-oil in the UK from energy crops for a similar cost as distillate fuel oil. It was also found that there was little difference in the processing cost for woodchips and baled miscanthus. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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