Energy integration of sugarcane biorefinery using simultaneous optimization

• Grant number: 13/21343-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2014
• End date: August 03, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Chemical Engineering - Chemical Process Industries
• Principal Investigator: Caliane Bastos Borba Costa
• Grantee: Cássia Maria de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Brazil has an important role in the world market with the production of biofuels, especially ethanol. Bagasse from sugarcane, a byproduct of an ethanol plant, can be used in bioelectricity generation and in the production of second generation ethanol. The process of generating energy from burning bagasse is well known and has generated good results. Many plants can meet the domestic needs and sell the surplus of generated electric energy. However, ethanol production from the hydrolysis of bagasse from sugarcane is a recent process, but when implemented will increase production without increasing the production area. In this context, this thesis project aims to perform, through simultaneous optimization, the energy integration of processes for 1G/2G ethanol production and bioelectricity in order to minimize simultaneously the utilities costs and the investment cost of heat exchanger network. In addition to economic and environmental benefits that energy integration provides, the reduction in steam consumption in the plant will result in surplus bagasse, which can be made available for the production of second generation ethanol. The study will be conducted in two stages. The first will be dedicated to the development of a tool for energy integration using simultaneous optimization. For this purpose free sotware will be used. The resulting program will be validated with examples from literature. In the second stage data from the studied process simulation (sugarcane biorefinery) will be used for process energy integration. Finally, it will be made comparisons among processes with and without energy integration, as well as an assessment of energy integration viability in economic and process terms. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

OLIVEIRA, CASSIA M.; PAVAO, LEANDRO V.; RAVAGNANI, MAURO A. S. S.; CRUZ, ANTONIO J. G.; COSTA, CALIANE B. B.. Process integration of a multiperiod sugarcane biorefinery. APPLIED ENERGY, v. 213, p. 520-539, MAR 1 2018. (13/21343-3)

OLIVEIRA, CASSIA M.; CRUZ, ANTONIO J. G.; COSTA, CALIANE B. B.. Improving the Integrated Process of First- and Second-Generation Ethanol Production with Multiperiod Energy Integration. BioEnergy Research, v. N/A, p. 22-pg., 2023-05-11. (13/21343-3)