Economic risk analysis and critical comparison of optimal biorefinery concepts

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 435-445

  Cheali, Peam ^a   Posada, John A ^b   Gernaey, Krist V ^a   Sin, Gürkan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

biorefinery; economic analysis; process synthesis; risk analysis; superstructure optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966586571     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1654     Document Type: Article

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