Waste Lignocellulosic Biomass as a Source for Bioethanol Production
Abstract
Synthetically produced biofuels play a critical role in the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Biofuels could effectively lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and contribute to better air quality. One of these biofuels is bioethanol, which could act as a gasoline replacement. For this purpose, a simulation of bioethanol production through lignocellulosic biomass fermentation, focused on distillation, was carried out in simulation software Aspen Plus. Since the possibility of absolute ethanol production through distillation is limited by the ethanol–water azeotrope, pressure swing distillation (PSD) was used to obtain fuel-grade ethanol (EtOH) with a fraction of 99.60 wt.%. The flowsheet was optimised with NQ analysis, which is a simple optimisation method for distillation columns. We found that the PSD has the potential to concentrate the EtOH to a desired value, while simultaneously removing other unwanted impurities whose presence is a consequence of pretreatment and fermentation processes.
Keywords
bioetanol;distilacija;lignocelulozna biomasa;bioethanol;distillation;lignocellulosic biomass;azeotrope;Aspen Plus;
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of publishing: | 2024 |
| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
| Organization: | UM FKKT - Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| UDC: | 620.9 |
| COBISS: |
187697667
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| ISSN: | 2673-4079 |
| Views: | 32 |
| Downloads: | 2 |
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| Secondary language: | Slovenian |
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| Secondary keywords: | bioetanol;distilacija;lignocelulozna biomasa; |
| Pages: | 12 str. |
| Volume: | ǂVol. ǂ5 |
| Issue: | ǂiss. ǂ1 |
| Chronology: | Feb. 2024 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/suschem5010001 |
| ID: | 24720619 |
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