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Title: EISA (Energy Independence and Security Act) compliant ethanol fuel from corn stover in a depot-based decentralized system: EISA-Compliant Ethanol Fuel from Corn Stover in a Depot-Based Decentralized System

Abstract

Abstract Cellulosic biofuels face significant problems of feedstock aggregation and logistics leading to poor economies of scale. The current model is for relatively small biorefineries using feedstock gathered locally. Here a depot‐based decentralized biorefinery system is explored to estimate the US Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) compliant corn stover ethanol production potential in the US Midwest. Depots serve to aggregate, pretreat, and densify biomass (via pellets) and thereby enable very large biorefineries using a decentralized system to collect these pellets. Such a corn‐stover based decentralized system using depots would establish one or two very large‐scale decentralized biorefineries capable of processing about 8–12% of the total corn stover available in the US Midwest. These decentralized biorefineries are economically competitive with the centralized biorefineries. About 55–153 depots could supply the pretreated pellets to the individual decentralized biorefineries leading to an annual production of 1.02–2.91 billion liters of cellulosic ethanol fuel. Most of the participating depots are located in Illinois and Iowa. The total EISA‐compliant ethanol fuel produced in the decentralized system is 2.82–4.07 billion liters per year. The ethanol selling price in the depot‐based decentralized biorefinery system varies between US$0.67 and US$0.72 L −1 . The greenhouse gas (GHG) savings from cellulosicmore » ethanol in the decentralized system compared to gasoline are 3.35–4.84 Tg CO 2 year −1 . Importantly, the total capital investment per annual volume of ethanol in the decentralized biorefinery ranges from US$0.71 L 1 to US$1.15 L 1 , while the total capital investment per annual ethanol volume in the centralized biorefinery is US$1.98 L −1 . © 2018 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd« less

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 [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [3];  [4]
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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  2. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Inst.
  3. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  4. Texas A & M Univ., Temple, TX (United States). Texas AgriLife Research and Extension
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Research Org.:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1506657
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1454900
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0018409; AC05‐76RL01830; FC02‐07ER64494
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-104X
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; Biorefinery; Cellulosic biofuel; Corn stover; Depot-based decentralized system; Lifecycle greenhouse gas; Minimum ethanol selling price; Supply chain

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Kim, Seungdo, Zhang, Xuesong, Dale, Bruce E., Reddy, Ashwan D., Jones, Curtis D., and Izaurralde, Roberto C. EISA (Energy Independence and Security Act) compliant ethanol fuel from corn stover in a depot-based decentralized system: EISA-Compliant Ethanol Fuel from Corn Stover in a Depot-Based Decentralized System. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/bbb.1899.
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Kim, Seungdo, Zhang, Xuesong, Dale, Bruce E., Reddy, Ashwan D., Jones, Curtis D., & Izaurralde, Roberto C. EISA (Energy Independence and Security Act) compliant ethanol fuel from corn stover in a depot-based decentralized system: EISA-Compliant Ethanol Fuel from Corn Stover in a Depot-Based Decentralized System. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1899
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Kim, Seungdo, Zhang, Xuesong, Dale, Bruce E., Reddy, Ashwan D., Jones, Curtis D., and Izaurralde, Roberto C. Tue . "EISA (Energy Independence and Security Act) compliant ethanol fuel from corn stover in a depot-based decentralized system: EISA-Compliant Ethanol Fuel from Corn Stover in a Depot-Based Decentralized System". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1899. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1506657.
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@article{osti_1506657,
title = {EISA (Energy Independence and Security Act) compliant ethanol fuel from corn stover in a depot-based decentralized system: EISA-Compliant Ethanol Fuel from Corn Stover in a Depot-Based Decentralized System},
author = {Kim, Seungdo and Zhang, Xuesong and Dale, Bruce E. and Reddy, Ashwan D. and Jones, Curtis D. and Izaurralde, Roberto C.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Cellulosic biofuels face significant problems of feedstock aggregation and logistics leading to poor economies of scale. The current model is for relatively small biorefineries using feedstock gathered locally. Here a depot‐based decentralized biorefinery system is explored to estimate the US Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) compliant corn stover ethanol production potential in the US Midwest. Depots serve to aggregate, pretreat, and densify biomass (via pellets) and thereby enable very large biorefineries using a decentralized system to collect these pellets. Such a corn‐stover based decentralized system using depots would establish one or two very large‐scale decentralized biorefineries capable of processing about 8–12% of the total corn stover available in the US Midwest. These decentralized biorefineries are economically competitive with the centralized biorefineries. About 55–153 depots could supply the pretreated pellets to the individual decentralized biorefineries leading to an annual production of 1.02–2.91 billion liters of cellulosic ethanol fuel. Most of the participating depots are located in Illinois and Iowa. The total EISA‐compliant ethanol fuel produced in the decentralized system is 2.82–4.07 billion liters per year. The ethanol selling price in the depot‐based decentralized biorefinery system varies between US$0.67 and US$0.72 L −1 . The greenhouse gas (GHG) savings from cellulosic ethanol in the decentralized system compared to gasoline are 3.35–4.84 Tg CO 2 year −1 . Importantly, the total capital investment per annual volume of ethanol in the decentralized biorefinery ranges from US$0.71 L 1 to US$1.15 L 1 , while the total capital investment per annual ethanol volume in the centralized biorefinery is US$1.98 L −1 . © 2018 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd},
doi = {10.1002/bbb.1899},
journal = {Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining},
number = 5,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Table 1 Table 1: Characteristics of corn stover supply chains in the decentralized system in the eight compliant scenarios. The bolded cities are the first biorefinery locations in each scenario.
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