Environmental economics of lignin derived transport fuels

Svetlana V. Obydenkova, Panos D. Kouris, Emiel J. M. Hensen, Hero J. Heeres, Michael D. Boot*

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This paper explores the environmental and economic aspects of fast pyrolytic conversion of lignin, obtained from 2G ethanol plants, to transport fuels for both the marine and automotive markets. Various scenarios are explored, pertaining to aggregation of lignin from several sites, alternative energy carries to replace lignin, transport modalities, and allocation methodology. The results highlight two critical factors that ultimately determine the economic and/or environmental fuel viability. The first factor, the logistics scheme, exhibited the disadvantage of the centralized approach, owing to prohibitively expensive transportation costs of the low energy-dense lignin. Life cycle analysis (LCA) displayed the second critical factor related to alternative energy carrier selection. Natural gas (NG) chosen over additional biomass boosts well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions (WTW GHG) to a level incompatible with the reduction targets set by the U.S. renewable fuel standard (RFS). Adversely, the process' economics revealed higher profits vs. fossil energy carrier. (C) 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)589-599
Aantal pagina's11
TijdschriftBioresource Technology
Volume243
DOI's
StatusPublished - nov.-2017

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