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A lignocellulosic ethanol strategy via nonenzymatic sugar production: Process synthesis and analysis

The work develops a strategy for the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass. In this strategy, the cellulose and hemicellulose fractions are simultaneously converted to sugars using a γ-valerolactone (GVL) solvent containing a dilute acid catal ...

Elsevier2015

Unraveling the inhibitory effects of acetate on ethanol production in CEN.PK

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Keng Cher Soh, Anirikh Chakrabarti

In this study, we used the ORACLE (Optimization and Risk Analysis of Complex Living Entities)[1] framework to study the impact of extracellular acetic acid on the S. cerevisiae metabolism with the aim to improve ethanol production in the presence of this i ...

2014

Integration of Supercritical Water Gasification in Combined 1G/2G Ethanol Production

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Alberto Mian

The present study investigates the potential conversion of sugarcane into ethanol and synthetic natural gas. The considered conversion path consists in combining ethanol first and second generation ethanol production plant with a catalytic supercritical wa ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Robust Optimization for Strategic Energy Planning

Michel Bierlaire, François Maréchal, Stefano Moret

Long-term planning for energy systems is often based on deterministic economic optimization and forecasts of fuel prices. When fuel price evolution is underestimated, the consequence is a low penetration of renewables and more efficient technologies in fav ...

Transport and Mobility Laboratory2014

Sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biorefineries under uncertainty

Juan David Villegas Gomez

Biorefinery concepts refer to the integrated production of food, fuel, power, commodity chemicals, and polymers from biomass, mimicking the structure of a fossil-based refinery. The use of lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock for biorefineries has been pro ...

EPFL2014

Multi-objective Optimization of a Solar Assisted 1st and 2nd Generation Sugarcane Ethanol Production Plant

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Alberto Mian, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Gianluca Ambrosetti, Juliana Queiroz Albarelli

Ethanol production sites utilizing sugarcane as feedstock are usually located in regions with high land availability and decent solar radiation. This offers the opportunity to cover parts of the process energy demand with concentrated solar power (CSP) and ...

Abo Akademi University, Thermal and Flow Engineering Laboratory2014

New alternatives for the fermentation process in the ethanol production from sugarcane: Extractive and low temperature fermentation

Adriano Viana Ensinas

Ethanol is produced in large scale from sugarcane in Brazil by fermentation of sugars and distillation. This is currently considered as an efficient biofuel technology, leading to significant reduction on greenhouse gases emissions. However, some improveme ...

Elsevier2014

Nonenzymatic Sugar Production from Biomass Using Biomass-Derived gamma-Valerolactone

Jeremy Luterbacher

Widespread production of biomass-derived fuels and chemicals will require cost-effective processes for breaking down cellulose and hemicellulose into their constituent sugars. Here, we report laboratory-scale production of soluble carbohydrates from corn s ...

2014

Ethanol and lignin production from Brazilian empty fruit bunch biomass

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman

Brazil Government is promoting palm plantations to use degraded land for biofuels. Palm production is expected to increase 35 per cent in future and there would be profuse biomass available that needs to be handled efficiently. Therefore, in this study the ...

Elsevier2014

Thermo-Economic Optimization of Integrated First and Second Generation Sugarcane Ethanol Plant

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Victor Codina Gironès, Juliana Queiroz Albarelli

The sugarcane industry has been responsible in some countries for the production of most of the sugar and ethanol available in the world for internal and external markets. In this sector, ethanol can be produced by fermentation of sugars obtained directly ...

2013

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