Multi-aspect evaluation of integrated forest-based biofuel production pathways: Part 1. Product yields & energetic performance

Yawer Jafri, Elisabeth Wetterlund, Marie Anheden, Ida Kulander, Åsa Håkansson and Erik Furusjö

Energy, 2019, vol. 166, issue C, 401-413

Abstract: Forest-based biofuels are strategically important in forest-rich countries like Sweden but the technical performance of several promising production pathways is poorly documented. This study examines product yields and energy efficiencies in six commercially relevant forest-based “drop-in” and “high blend” biofuel production pathways by developing detailed spreadsheet energy balance models. The models are in turn based on pilot-scale performance data from the literature, supplemented with input from technology developers and experts. In most pathways, biofuel production is integrated with a market pulp mill and/or a crude oil refinery. Initial conversion is by pyrolysis, gasification or lignin depolymerization and intermediate products are upgraded by hydrotreatment or catalytic synthesis.

Keywords: Biofuels; Pyrolysis; Gasification; Lignin oil; Energy efficiencies; Product yields (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.10.008

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