Crops To Jetfuels¤
Introduction¤
Crops to Ethanol to Jetfuel are biochemical processes that are used to take advantage of starch and sugar rich based plants to produce bioethanol for Jetfuel applications. Corn stover crops follows a serie of treatments to produce bioethanol: conditioning, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation, distillation, dehydration and solids separation. The fermentation process is considered anaerobic because it uses the O2 of glucose and not from air to produce ethanol and CO2. The practical yield for bioethanol is: 0.5L of ethanol from 1 kg of glucose leading to 70% efficiency. The purification of ethanol from the fermentation process is done by distillation columns and CO2 scrubbers. Ethanol is dehydrated catalytically to ethylene that is pressurized before entering the oligomerization reactor. Finally, the resulting olefins are fractionated to light hydrocarbons in car gasoline, diesel and jet-range fuels by product fractionation.
ES Model Parameters¤
All the parameters concerning the Crops to Ethanol are listed in the table below.
| entry_key | value | unit | sets | source_reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO2_A (layer) | 1.02348 | kt/GWh | Han, Jeongwoo; Tao, Ling; Wang, Michael, (2017): "Well to Wake Analysic of Ethanol to Jet and Sugar to Jet Pathways" | |
| JETFUEL (layer) | 1 | - | Han, Jeongwoo; Tao, Ling; Wang, Michael, (2017): "Well to Wake Analysic of Ethanol to Jet and Sugar to Jet Pathways" | |
| WET_BIOMASS (layer) | -3.4129 | - | Han, Jeongwoo; Tao, Ling; Wang, Michael, (2017): "Well to Wake Analysic of Ethanol to Jet and Sugar to Jet Pathways" | |
| c_inv | 2942 | MCHF/GW | Tao, Ling; Markham, Jennifer; Haq, Zia; Biddy, Mary J., (2017): "Techno-Economic Analysis for Upgrading the Biomass-Derived Ethanol-to-Jet Blendstocks" | |
| c_maint | 148 | MCHF/GW/yr | Tao, Ling; Markham, Jennifer; Haq, Zia; Biddy, Mary J., (2017): "Techno-Economic Analysis for Upgrading the Biomass-Derived Ethanol-to-Jet Blendstocks" | |
| c_p | 0.86 | - | Han, Jeongwoo; Tao, Ling; Wang, Michael, (2017): "Well to Wake Analysic of Ethanol to Jet and Sugar to Jet Pathways" | |
| c_p | 0.86 | - | Tao, Ling; Markham, Jennifer; Haq, Zia; Biddy, Mary J., (2017): "Techno-Economic Analysis for Upgrading the Biomass-Derived Ethanol-to-Jet Blendstocks" | |
| gwp_constr | 0 | kt/GWh | Han, Jeongwoo; Tao, Ling; Wang, Michael, (2017): "Well to Wake Analysic of Ethanol to Jet and Sugar to Jet Pathways" | |
| gwp_constr | 0 | ktCO2_eq/GW | Tao, Ling; Markham, Jennifer; Haq, Zia; Biddy, Mary J., (2017): "Techno-Economic Analysis for Upgrading the Biomass-Derived Ethanol-to-Jet Blendstocks" | |
| lifetime | 25 | y | GLO | de Jong, S.; Hoefnagels, R.; Faaij, A.; Slade, R.; Mawhood, R.; Junginger, M., (2015): "The Feasibility of Short-Term Production Strategies for Renewable Jet Fuels - a Comprehensive Techno-Economic Comparison" |
| lifetime | 25 | y | Moretti, Christian; López-Contreras, Ana; de Vrije, Truus; Kraft, Axel; Junginger, Martin; Shen, Li, (2021): "From Agricultural (by-)Products to Jet Fuels: Carbon Footprint and Economic Performance" | |
| ref_size | 0 | GW | Tao, Ling; Markham, Jennifer; Haq, Zia; Biddy, Mary J., (2017): "Techno-Economic Analysis for Upgrading the Biomass-Derived Ethanol-to-Jet Blendstocks" | |
| trl | 6 | - | Han, Jeongwoo; Tao, Ling; Wang, Michael, (2017): "Well to Wake Analysic of Ethanol to Jet and Sugar to Jet Pathways" | |
| trl | 6 | - | Tao, Ling; Markham, Jennifer; Haq, Zia; Biddy, Mary J., (2017): "Techno-Economic Analysis for Upgrading the Biomass-Derived Ethanol-to-Jet Blendstocks" |
References¤
| Data Sources |
|---|
| de Jong, S.; Hoefnagels, R.; Faaij, A.; Slade, R.; Mawhood, R.; Junginger, M.. (2015). "The Feasibility of Short-Term Production Strategies for Renewable Jet Fuels - a Comprehensive Techno-Economic Comparison". Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1613 ⧉ |
| Han, Jeongwoo; Tao, Ling; Wang, Michael. (2017). "Well to Wake Analysic of Ethanol to Jet and Sugar to Jet Pathways". Biotechnology for Biofuels. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-017-0698-z ⧉ |
| Moretti, Christian; López-Contreras, Ana; de Vrije, Truus; Kraft, Axel; Junginger, Martin; Shen, Li. (2021). "From Agricultural (by-)Products to Jet Fuels: Carbon Footprint and Economic Performance". Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145848 ⧉ |
| Tao, Ling; Markham, Jennifer; Haq, Zia; Biddy, Mary J.. (2017). "Techno-Economic Analysis for Upgrading the Biomass-Derived Ethanol-to-Jet Blendstocks". Green Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6gc02800d ⧉ |