Beyond ethanol: A techno-economic analysis of an integrated corn biorefinery for the production of hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 190-200

  Wang, Kaige ^a   Ou, Longwen ^a   Brown, Tristan ^b   Brown, Robert C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic pyrolysis; Corn ethanol; DDGS; Green aromatics; Green olefins; Integrated biorefinery

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOCONVERSION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FEEDSTOCKS; HYDROCARBON REFINING; INVESTMENTS; OLEFINS; OPERATING COSTS; PYROLYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAGES;

CATALYTIC PYROLYSIS; CORN-ETHANOL; DDGS; GREEN AROMATICS; INTEGRATED BIOREFINERY;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924740425     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1529     Document Type: Article

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