A techno-economic evaluation of bio-oil co-processing within a petroleum refinery

Ali, Asmaa Ali Mohammed; Mustafa, Mustafa Abbas; Yassin, Kamal Eldin Eltayeb

doi:10.1080/17597269.2018.1519758

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“…The main advantage from this approach is that it is not necessary to develop new processes and, consequently, since units are active and fully amortized, important savings in capital costs are obvious. It can be assumed that the cost of fuels from co-processed bio-oil would be similar to that of crude oil derived fuels, depending on the characteristics of the bio-oils and the contents under which they are co-processed [13][14][15].…”

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Limitations in the energy balance when VGO/aqueous bio-oil mixtures are co-processed in FCC units

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Limitations in the energy balance when VGO/aqueous bio-oil mixtures are co-processed in FCC units

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“…However, the high oxygen content of bio-oil makes this intermediate unstable (Elliott, 2007;Bridgwater, 2012), and thus, it requires stabilization (Jones et al, 2013;Zacher et al, 2014) before co-processing. Co-processingbased integration scenarios have been conceptualized throughout the literature; however, detailed technoeconomic analyses of such scenarios are limited (Ali et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2019).…”

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Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels in Petroleum Refineries: Evaluation of New Bio-Refinery Concepts

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The potential for petroleum refineries (PRs) to integrate sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technologies is manifold, unlike with other existing industrial infrastructures that lack such technical similarities. A midsize PR with a crude oil capacity of 120,000 barrels per day was analyzed in this study to determine the feasibility of integrating five well-known lignocellulosic SAF technologies, namely, Virent’s BioForming (VB), alcohol to jet (ATJ), direct sugar to hydrocarbon (DSHC), fast pyrolysis (FP), and gasification and Fischer–Tropsch (GFT) methods, as well as one novel concept referred to as integrated carbonization-gasification-Fischer–Tropsch (ICGFT). The following three integrated scenarios were studied to derive the costs and environmental impact reductions: sharing of infrastructures from outside battery limits (OSBL), co-processing of SAF technology-derived intermediates with PR-derived gas oil inside battery limits (ISBL) and repurposing of an idle or shutdown PR. Sharing OSBL infrastructures resulted in reductions of the minimum fuel selling price (MFSP) by 3–14% relative to the corresponding standalone cases. Co-processing of intermediate products such as VB-derived long chain hydrocarbons, ATJ-derived ethanol, DSHC-derived farnesene, pyrolysis-derived bio-oil, and GFT-derived FT products reduced the MFSP by 10–19% from corresponding standalone cases. Moreover, repurposing scenarios reduced the costs by 16–34%. Greenhouse gas (GHG) estimations showed that 17 of 21 integrated scenarios resulted in GHG savings (7–92%). Lignocellulosic SAF technologies are limited by low fuel yields, which are governed by the high oxygen content of the feedstock. However, ICGFT was found to be advantageous in terms of fuel production at a maximized fuel yield.

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“…23 This means the coprocessing products can compete with the petroleum-derived fuels. 24 Wu et al 8 also proposed a multiobjective optimization model to investigate the relations between economy and environment using life cycle assessment to quantify the environmental impacts. The results showed that the environmental impacts can be dramatically reduced if more bio-oil were coprocessed, which can be verified by Bhatt et al's 25 study.…”

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“…To obtain the minimum selling price of the coprocessing product, gasoline, a techno-economic analysis was also conducted and the minimum selling price of gasoline was only $2.6/gallon . This means the coprocessing products can compete with the petroleum-derived fuels . Wu et al also proposed a multiobjective optimization model to investigate the relations between economy and environment using life cycle assessment to quantify the environmental impacts.…”

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Multiperiod Design and Optimization of Coprocessing of Vacuum Gas Oil and Bio-oil Integrating Supply Fluctuations of Lignocellulosic and Algal Biomass

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Qian

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Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

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The coprocessing of bio-oil and vacuum gas oil has been demonstrated as a cost-effective way to utilize bioenergy. A multiperiod model is built to design and optimize of the coprocessing system by integrating monthly changes of lignocellulosic biomass production and algae growth rate. The case study showed that the optimal configurations of a coprocessing system with a minimized total annual cost can be attained with the proposed multiperiod model. The feed compositions of lignocellulosic and algal biomass for fast pyrolysis in each period were obtained by integrating the synergistic effect of copyrolysis of the two biomasses. Due to the relatively large capital investments of fast pyrolysis and algal growth process, the operational factors of the two processes were near 100% in all of the periods. A sensitivity analysis was also carried out to discuss the parameter effects. The proposed model not only can be used in the optimization of the coprocessing system but also can be adopted in bioenergy utilization.

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A techno-economic evaluation of bio-oil co-processing within a petroleum refinery

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Limitations in the energy balance when VGO/aqueous bio-oil mixtures are co-processed in FCC units

Limitations in the energy balance when VGO/aqueous bio-oil mixtures are co-processed in FCC units

Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels in Petroleum Refineries: Evaluation of New Bio-Refinery Concepts

Multiperiod Design and Optimization of Coprocessing of Vacuum Gas Oil and Bio-oil Integrating Supply Fluctuations of Lignocellulosic and Algal Biomass

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