Techno-economic assessment of biomass pre-conversion processes as a part of biomass-to-liquids line-up

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 584-600

  Magalhães, Ana I P ^a   Petrović, Dragana ^a   Rodriguez, Alex L ^a   Putra, Zulfan Adi ^a   Thielemans, Geert ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bio oil; Biomass to liquids; Bioslurry; Fischer Tropsch liquids; Pre conversion processes; Torrefaction

Indexed keywords

BIO-OIL; CAPITAL INVESTMENT; CONVERSION PROCESS; ENERGY CARRIERS; ENERGY SUPPLIES; FISCHER TROPSCH; FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS; NETHERLANDS; ORIGINAL DESIGN; PRE-CONVERSION PROCESSES; ROTATING CONES; SYN-GAS; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION DISTANCE;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; FOSSIL FUELS; INVESTMENTS; LIQUIDS; OPERATING COSTS; PYROLYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

BIOMASS;

EID: 70450161984     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.183     Document Type: Article

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