The costs of sugar production from different feedstocks and processing technologies [electronic resource] : Review of Industrial Sugar Production Costs

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.48 Nuclear engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: Medium: ED : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 262865
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. Cellulosic feedstocks; 3. Starch-based feedstocks; 4. Sugar production; 5. Sugar-containing crops

Tóm tắt

 Sugar production is essential for the production of foods, biochemicals, and biofuels via biochemical or catalytic routes. Sugar-containing crops, and starch-based and cellulosic feedstocks are resources for sugar production via juice extraction, starch saccharification, and pretreatment and hydrolysis, respectively. Technologies have been developed to attain a high sugar yield
  however, production costs are a major consideration in commercializing newly developed approaches to the production of sugars. In this review, the fixed capital and production costs of sugar produced from first- and second-generation crops are summarized. As expected, first-generation crops provide the lowest fixed capital costs, ranging from 0.01 to 0.13 $ kg<
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  feedstock, and have production costs ranging from 0.22 to 0.55 $ kg<
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  sugar. For cellulosic crops, because of their recalcitrant structure and complex processing, the fixed capital and production costs are higher, ranging from 0.02 to 1.10 $ kg<
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  feedstock and 0.10 to 3.37 $ kg<
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  sugar, respectively.