Techno-economic assessment of pellets produced from steam pretreated biomass feedstock [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.78 *Recreational and wilderness areas
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: p. 131-143 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 263516
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. Biomass; 3. Pellets; 4. Production cost; 5. Techno-economic model

Tóm tắt

 Minimum production cost and optimum plant size are determined for pellet plants for three types of biomass feedstock e forest residue, agricultural residue, and energy crops. The life cycle cost from harvesting to the delivery of the pellets to the co-firing facility is evaluated. The cost varies from 95 to 105 t<
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  for steam pretreated pellets. The difference in the cost of producing regular and steam pretreated pellets per unit energy is in the range of 2e3 GJ<
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 . The economic optimum plant size (i.e., the size at which pellet production cost is minimum) is found to be 190 kt for regular pellet production and 250 kt for steam pretreated pellet. Furthermore, sensitivity and uncertainty analyses were carried out to identify sensitivity parameters and effects of model error.