Techno-economic and life cycle analysis of different types of hydrolysis process for the production of p-Xylene

Athaley, Abhay; Annam, Praneeth; Saha, Basudeb; Ierapetritou, Marianthi G.

doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2018.11.018

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“…The choice of such method is dictated by its applicability across a very broad temperature and pressure range not displaying any anomalous behavior, unlike the activity coefficient property method 38. Moreover, this method has been used in the case studies 27, 35, 39 similar to the current work. The reactor was modeled using the Aspen PFR blocks, in line with Ranade et al 34 who claimed that the plug‐flow model is often applied for modeling of trickle‐bed reactors.…”

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Selective Oxidation of Arabinose on Gold Catalysts: Process Design and Techno‐economic Assessment

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The present work focuses on process design and techno‐economic assessment of the oxidation of a pentose sugar present in hemicelluloses, i.e., arabinose, on a supported gold catalyst. The processing plant was designed with Aspen Plus. The arabinose feedstock price has an important impact on the operational performance contributing to almost half of these costs. The feasibility of the overall arabinose oxidation process requires efficient extraction of hemicellulose from the lignocellulosic biomass lowering the feedstock costs.

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Selective Oxidation of Arabinose on Gold Catalysts: Process Design and Techno‐economic Assessment

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“…The functional unit of one metric ton of product is considered for LCA. For inventory analysis, the Ecoinvent® v3.3 database is used for its extensive database [21,29,30] . Furthermore, some assumptions are made to perform LCA, including 1.…”

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Techno-economic and Life Cycle Analysis of MixAlco® Processes for Mixed Alcohol Production from Brown Algae

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The need for producing renewable fuels from biomass has increased due to depleting fossil resources and environmental concerns. However, the low fraction of biomass carbon converted to product is an undeniable drawback for most current biofuel productions from fermentation due to undecomposed lignin in biomass composition and carbon loss as CO 2 . In this work, two main production routes of the MixAlco® process, the Ketonization route (KR) and Esteri cation route (ER) are evaluated for the mixed alcohol production by brown algae, third-generation biomass without lignin. A Novel Fermentation process using syntrophic bacteria consortia (SBC) is developed to produce acetic acid from waste gas produced by KR and ER process. The paper investigates the integrated owsheet for these alternative routes, using techno-economic and life cycle analysis to compare the minimum selling price and environmental impacts. The ER's capital and operating cost combined with the SBC is the highest compared with other routes. The cost of raw materials and utilities are the two major cost factors for all the processing routes examined. ER process performs the best in terms of environmental impacts except in water depletion compared with other processes, while the KR process performs the worst regarding the environmental metrics.

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“…The yield and reaction conditions of all the reactions are shown in table 1-3. Furfural flow rate and purity are taken as same from our previous study of p-Xylene production 18 .…”

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“…In our previous work 18 , we investigated a new hydrolysis process using molten salt hydrates coupled with production of p-Xylene and the economics and environmental impacts were studied and compared with different hydrolysis processes. Furfural was the main by-product from this process.…”

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“…As furfural is a by-product from the p-Xylene process, we need to consider selling of p-Xylene to calculate the minimum selling price of each chemical produced. The selling price of p-Xylene is taken as $1,477 per metric ton, which is calculated in our previous study 18 . Some additional assumptions are necessary to perform the economic analysis as outlined below.…”

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Biomass‐based chemical production using techno‐economic and life cycle analysis

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Furfural has been selected as one of the top 30 biomass derived platform compounds by the U.S.Department of Energy based on several indicators including the raw material used for production, estimated processing cost, technical complexity, and market potential. In this work, several high value chemicals such as butadiene, surfactants, jet-fuels and lubricants are produced from furfural. The paper proposes the integrated flowsheet to produce those chemical and techno-economic and life cycle analysis is performed to compare the minimum selling price and environmental impacts of the integrated process. The capital and operating cost for production of lubricants and surfactants is the highest when compared with other products. Production of surfactants performs the best in terms of environmental impacts except in water depletion when compared with other processes while butadiene production performs the worst regarding the environmental effects.

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Techno-economic and life cycle analysis of different types of hydrolysis process for the production of p-Xylene

Cited by 33 publications

References 17 publications

Selective Oxidation of Arabinose on Gold Catalysts: Process Design and Techno‐economic Assessment

Selective Oxidation of Arabinose on Gold Catalysts: Process Design and Techno‐economic Assessment

Techno-economic and Life Cycle Analysis of MixAlco® Processes for Mixed Alcohol Production from Brown Algae

Biomass‐based chemical production using techno‐economic and life cycle analysis

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