Journal
CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 673-685Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-010-0339-8
Keywords
Process integration; Process design; Optimization; Synthesis; Sustainability; Biorefineries
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This article presents a new approach for incorporating process-integration tools into life cycle analysis (LCA) for biofuel production. Process synthesis techniques using mass-and energy-integration tools are employed to generate various scenarios for reducing mass and energy consumption in the process. The global implications of these changes and the associated trade-offs are assessed using the LCA tool: GREET. The developed approach enables the consideration of several levels of process integration while tracking the process economics and the reduction of the net greenhouse gas emissions. Several cases of biofuels with different processing technologies have been considered in this study, and the results show that when the process-integration tools are effectively utilized and combined with LCA, better insights are obtained and the net greenhouse gas emissions decrease drastically for different biofuels.
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