Techno-economic and environmental assessment of bioethanol-based chemical process: A case study on ethyl acetate

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 675-684

  Hong Thuy, Nguyen T ^a   Kikuchi, Yasunori ^a   Sugiyama, Hirokazu ^b   Noda, Masaru ^c   Hirao, Masahiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bioethanol based processes; CO 2 emission; production cost

Indexed keywords

BIOETHANOL-BASED PROCESSES; CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMMODITY CHEMICALS; COST SAVING; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; ETHYL ACETATES; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; PRODUCTION COST; PRODUCTION PROCESS; TECHNO-ECONOMICS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; GLOBAL WARMING; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

BIOETHANOL;

EID: 81255191701     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.10517     Document Type: Article

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