Benchmarking of next-generation biofuels from a process perspective

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 292-301

  Voll, Anna ^a   Marquardt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioeconomy; Biofuels; Biorenewables processing; Chemical process design; Multi objective optimization; Reaction network flux analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOECONOMY; CATALYSIS RESEARCH; CHEMICAL PROCESS DESIGN; DEVELOPMENT PHASE; EARLY DESIGN PHASE; FLUX ANALYSIS; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; MASS BALANCE; MULTI OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATIONS (MOO); MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTION ROUTE; RAPID SCREENING; REACTION NETWORK; REACTION YIELDS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES;

BENCHMARKING; CATALYSIS; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; METHANE; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS DESIGN; RESEARCH;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 84860918535     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1325     Document Type: Article

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