) the minimum selling price of ethanol (for a 10% rate of return and a biomass price of 66 $/dry tonne) ranges from 0.555 to … biomass to ethanol ranges from 44.35 to 45.53% (high heating value basis). These results compare favorably with the “state of … the art” production of ethanol via biochemical pathway from lignocellulosic biomass, revealing that the DME …

The combined sugar and ethanol production process from sugar cane is a paradigmatic application for energy integration … ethanol production process in order to obtain maximum total site net power. Results show a variety of interesting scenarios of … combined sugar, ethanol and electricity production plants with considerably high electricity output. …

The production of ethanol via entrained flow gasification of biomass and subsequent catalytic synthesis is economically …, the effects of improvements in MoS2 catalyst performance and the availability of pressurized solid biomass feeding systems … lignocellulosic ethanol. …

management. In this paper, a geographic information system (GIS)-based EDSS for the optimal planning of forest biomass use for …), harvested biomass. Moreover, different energy products and different definitions of the harvesting and pre-treatment operations …

With increasing renewable energy targets and the use of biomass for energy production, questions arise about the … production of biofuel can have on the environment, but there has been less consideration of more small scale biomass heating …

The paper presents the results of exergy analysis for a biomass-to-synthetic natural gas (SNG) conversion process. The … main process units of biomass-to-SNG conversion technology are gasifier, gas cleaning, synthesis gas compression, CH4 … synthesis and final SNG conditioning. The results showed that the largest exergy losses take place in the biomass gasifier, CH4 …

According to some future Danish energy scenarios, biomass will become one of the two main pillars of the future energy … system accompanied by wind power. The biomass can be used for generating heat and electricity, and as a transportation fuel … in a future energy system according to the scenarios. This article compares the value of using biomass as a heat source …

light of this new framework, the best economical option for cogeneration was analyzed using one of the biomass resources … enhance the electricity production based on this biomass source, was analyzed. The power production was based on a steam power … threshold to start new projects, neither does it incentive the maximization of the power production for this specific biomass …