A comprehensive techno-economic analysis tool to validate long-term viability of emerging biorefining processes

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1793-1806

  Sukumara, Sumesh ^a   Amundson, Joseph ^a   Badurdeen, Fazleena ^a,b   Seay, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Biomass; Ethanol; Integrated biorefinery; Optimization; Simulation; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CHAINS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ETHANOL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INVESTMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; REFINING; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; INTEGRATED BIOREFINERY; PROCESS SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION; SUPPLY CHAIN MODELS; SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84946492541     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-015-0945-6     Document Type: Article

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