Wet Waste Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Biocrude Upgrading to Hydrocarbon Fuels (2019 State of Technology)

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EDT 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1617028· OSTI ID:1617028

Snowden-Swan, Lesley J. ^[1]; Billing, Justin M. ^[1]; Thorson, Michael R. ^[1]; Schmidt, Andrew J. ^[1]; Santosa, Daniel M. ^[1]; Jones, Susanne B. ^[1]; Hallen, Richard T. ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Each year, the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) assesses progress in their research and development efforts toward sustainable production of renewable fuels. Technical and cost targets were previously established for the wet waste hydrothermal liquefaction and biocrude upgrading pathway and summarized in a design report. The present report summarizes the research and associated techno-economic analysis (TEA) in support of the 2019 state of technology (SOT) assessment for this pathway. Data from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Conversion hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) program for wet waste was used to update the pathway techno-economic analysis (TEA) for the fiscal year 2019 State of Technology (2019 SOT). An overview of the current process model, experimental data and plant economics for the SOT is presented.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1617028
• Report Number(s): PNNL--29882
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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09 BIOMASS FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
42 ENGINEERING
aqueous phase
biocrude upgrading
biomass
conversion
hydrothermal liquefaction
hydrotreating
sludge
thermochemical
wet waste