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Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Ammonia Production From Residual Bagasse Gasification: A Decarbonization Pathway for Nitrogen Fertilizers

This work evaluates the potential to produce synthetic nitrogen fertilizers by using sugarcane bagasse gasification in the São Paulo state, Brazil, aiming to increase the economic revenues and to decarbonize a chemical sector traditionally based on natural ...

2022

Data mining in the context of urban metabolism: A case study of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Nicole Sophie Wiedmann

The highest share of the global population lives in cities. The current configuration of the latter requires considerable amounts of resource flows causing the degradation of local and global ecosystems. To face the complexity of these challenges, scientis ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Techno-economic and environmental assessment of ammonia production from residual bagasse gasification: a decarbonization pathway for nitrogen fertilizers

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

2021

Sugarcane bagasse and vinasse conversion to electricity and biofuels: an exergoeconomic and environmental assessment

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

Biomass conversion into either electricity or biofuels requires various energy intensive processes that may drastically affect its technical and environmental competitiveness against their non-renewable counterparts. Therefore, in this paper, a comparative ...

2020

Unit exergy cost and specific CO2 emissions of the electricity generation in the Netherlands

Exergy and environmental analyses have been developed to determine the performance of the electricity generation in the Dutch mix. A comparative assessment of diverse technological routes, including fossil and renewable energy resources consumption, is car ...

2020

Exergy assessment and techno-economic optimization of bioethanol production routes

François Maréchal

Currently, electricity generation and second-generation ethanol production from lignocellulosic feedstocks represent technological alternatives in the bioenergy sector. Nevertheless, the introduction of new production processes denotes a real challenge due ...

2020

Exergoeconomic and environmental assessment of production and end use of sugarcane residues derivatives

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

The upgrade of sugarcane industry residues, such as vinasse and bagasse, has a notably potential for large scale production of biofuels in Brazil. Despite this fact, the biomass conversion into either electricity or biofuels requires various energy intensi ...

Silesian University of Technology2019

Exergetic, environmental and economic assessment of sugarcane first-generation biorefineries

François Maréchal

First generation ethanol (1G) contributes to the majority of the ethanol produced worldwide, predominantly centered on corn and sugarcane. Nevertheless, several issues are regularly highlighted concerning the long-term sustainability of this technology, in ...

WARSAW UNIV TECHNOLOGY, INST HEAT ENGINEERING2019

Process synthesis and optimization of syngas and ammonia production in nitrogen fertilizers complexes: energy, energy integration and CO2 emissions assessment.

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

The primary aim of this thesis is to propose a method to develop the process synthesis and optimization of the production of syngas and ammonia, as well as other byproducts such as marketable CO2, in synthetic nitrogen fertilizers (SNF) complexes. The base ...

University of Sao Paulo2018

Funamentals of Life Cycle Assessment and Specificity of Biorefineries

Edgard Gnansounou

The use of methods to assess environmental performances of industrial products became popular in the sixties with the growing environment concerns. The life cycle assessment (LCA) emerged in the 1990s as a response to the need of a more structured methodol ...

Elsevier2017

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