Exergy and environmental ranking of bioethanol production routes

• Grant number: 14/26286-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: November 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Thermal Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Silvio de Oliveira Junior
• Grantee: Pablo Andrés Silva Ortiz
• Supervisor: François Maréchal
• Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/23049-2 - EXERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RANKING OF BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION ROUTES, BP.DR

Abstract

This project aims to develop a methodology to perform the exergy, exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental analysis, evaluation and ranking of technological routes for obtaining ethanol and electricity from sugarcane in several configurations of biorefineries.Technical data of each technological route, as well as, the related environmental aspects will be taken into account. It is expected to obtain optimal settings and it will allow the ranking (in terms of renewability of production processes) of following proposed routes:ROUTE 1: ETHANOL (1G) AND ELECTRICITY;ROUTE 2: ETHANOL (2G), HYDROLYSIS AND ELECTRICITY;ROUTE 3: LIQUID FUELS (SYNTHESIS GAS) AND ELECTRICITY. (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)

ORTIZ, PABLO A. SILVA; MARECHAL, FRANCOIS; JUNIOR, SILVIO DE OLIVEIRA. Exergy assessment and techno-economic optimization of bioethanol production routes. FUEL, v. 279, NOV 1 2020. (14/26286-0, 12/23049-2)