Sustainable process design and synthesis of hydrocarbon biorefinery through fast pyrolysis and hydroprocessing

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 980-994

  Zhang, Qiao ^a   Gong, Jian ^a   Skwarczek, Matthew ^a   Yue, Dajun ^a   You, Fengqi ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast pyrolysis; Hydrogen production; Hydroprocessing; Life cycle assessment; Mixed integer nonlinear programming; Superstructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894038185     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14344     Document Type: Article

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