Integration options for high energy efficiency and improved economics in a wood-to-ethanol process

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sassner, Per ^a   Zacchi, Guido ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(E ,3E) PROCESS; ASPEN PLUS; CO-PRODUCTS; ENERGY DEMANDS; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; ETHANOL YIELD; HEAT AND POWER PRODUCTION (CHP); HEATING VALUES; HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCIES; MODEL INPUT; PROCESS DEVELOPMENTS; PROCESS ECONOMICS; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; PROCESS STEPS; PRODUCTION COSTS; SELLING PRICES; SIMULTANEOUS SACCHARIFICATION AND FERMENTATION (SSF); SOLID RESIDUES; STEAM PRETREATMENT; WOOD TO ETHANOL PROCESS;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COBALT; COBALT ALLOYS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; CONSERVATION; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FEEDSTOCKS; FINANCE; FUELS; HEATING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PELLETIZING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROFITABILITY; RAW MATERIALS; SACCHARIFICATION; STATISTICS; WOOD; WOOD FUELS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BIOFUEL; COMMODITY PRICE; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MARKET; ETHANOL; FUELWOOD; PRODUCTION COST; YIELD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

PICEA;

EID: 45149100619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-1-4     Document Type: Article

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