Process Design Report for Stover Feedstock: Lignocellulosic Biomass to Ethanol Process Design and Economics Utilizing Co-Current Dilute Acid Prehydrolysis and Enzymatic Hydrolysis for Corn Stover

Technical Report · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1218326· OSTI ID:1218326

Aden, A. ^[1]; Ruth, M. ^[1]; Ibsen, K. ^[1]; Jechura, J. ^[1]; Neeves, K. ^[1]; Sheehan, J. ^[1]; Wallace, B. ^[1]; Montague, L. ^[2]; Slayton, A. ^[2]; Lukas, J. ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Harris Group, Seattle, WA (United States)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is promoting the development of ethanol from lignocellulosic feedstocks as an alternative to conventional petroleum-based transportation fuels. DOE funds both fundamental and applied research in this area and needs a method for predicting cost benefits of many research proposals. To that end, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has modeled many potential process designs and estimated the economics of each process during the last 20 years. This report is an update of the ongoing process design and economic analyses at NREL.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99-GO10337
• OSTI ID: 1218326
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-510-32438; 3979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

biomass
ethanol
lignocellulosic
feedstock
process design
economic analyses
design basis
cost estimation