Cost to produce switchgrass and cost to produce ethanol from switchgrass for several levels of biorefinery investment cost and biomass to ethanol conversion rates

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 517-530

  Haque, Mohua ^a   Epplin, Francis M ^b  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellulosic; Economics; Ethanol; Logistics; Mathematical programming; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CAPACITY; BIOMASS HARVEST; BIOREFINERIES; BREAKEVEN COST; CELLULOSIC; CONVERSION RATES; ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY ACT OF 2007; ETHANOL CONVERSION; FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION; HOLISTIC MODEL; INVESTMENT COSTS; MACHINE INVESTMENTS; SWITCHGRASS; TRANSPORTATION COST;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMASS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; ECONOMICS; ETHANOL; FEEDSTOCKS; HARVESTING; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFINING;

INVESTMENTS;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; CELLULOSE; ETHANOL; GRASS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INVESTMENT LOCATION; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84868461477     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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