The costs of sugar production from different feedstocks and processing technologies: Review of Industrial Sugar Production Costs
Abstract
Abstract Sugar production is essential for the production of foods, biochemicals, and biofuels via biochemical or catalytic routes. Sugar‐containing crops, and starch‐based and cellulosic feedstocks are resources for sugar production via juice extraction, starch saccharification, and pretreatment and hydrolysis, respectively. Technologies have been developed to attain a high sugar yield; however, production costs are a major consideration in commercializing newly developed approaches to the production of sugars. In this review, the fixed capital and production costs of sugar produced from first‐ and second‐generation crops are summarized. As expected, first‐generation crops provide the lowest fixed capital costs, ranging from 0.01 to 0.13 $ kg −1 feedstock, and have production costs ranging from 0.22 to 0.55 $ kg −1 sugar. For cellulosic crops, because of their recalcitrant structure and complex processing, the fixed capital and production costs are higher, ranging from 0.02 to 1.10 $ kg −1 feedstock and 0.10 to 3.37 $ kg −1 sugar, respectively. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States). Dept. of Food Science and Technology
- Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA)., Peoria, IL (United States). Bioenergy Research, Agricultural Research Service
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- Research Org.:
- Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), Urbana, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1495027
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1510346
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018420
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-104X
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; sugar production; sugar-containing crops; starch-based feedstocks; cellulosic feedstocks; fixed capital cost; production cost
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Cheng, Ming-Hsun, Huang, Haibo, Dien, Bruce S., and Singh, Vijay. The costs of sugar production from different feedstocks and processing technologies: Review of Industrial Sugar Production Costs. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/bbb.1976.
Cheng, Ming-Hsun, Huang, Haibo, Dien, Bruce S., & Singh, Vijay. The costs of sugar production from different feedstocks and processing technologies: Review of Industrial Sugar Production Costs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1976
Cheng, Ming-Hsun, Huang, Haibo, Dien, Bruce S., and Singh, Vijay. Sat .
"The costs of sugar production from different feedstocks and processing technologies: Review of Industrial Sugar Production Costs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1976. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1495027.
@article{osti_1495027,
title = {The costs of sugar production from different feedstocks and processing technologies: Review of Industrial Sugar Production Costs},
author = {Cheng, Ming-Hsun and Huang, Haibo and Dien, Bruce S. and Singh, Vijay},
abstractNote = {Abstract Sugar production is essential for the production of foods, biochemicals, and biofuels via biochemical or catalytic routes. Sugar‐containing crops, and starch‐based and cellulosic feedstocks are resources for sugar production via juice extraction, starch saccharification, and pretreatment and hydrolysis, respectively. Technologies have been developed to attain a high sugar yield; however, production costs are a major consideration in commercializing newly developed approaches to the production of sugars. In this review, the fixed capital and production costs of sugar produced from first‐ and second‐generation crops are summarized. As expected, first‐generation crops provide the lowest fixed capital costs, ranging from 0.01 to 0.13 $ kg −1 feedstock, and have production costs ranging from 0.22 to 0.55 $ kg −1 sugar. For cellulosic crops, because of their recalcitrant structure and complex processing, the fixed capital and production costs are higher, ranging from 0.02 to 1.10 $ kg −1 feedstock and 0.10 to 3.37 $ kg −1 sugar, respectively. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.},
doi = {10.1002/bbb.1976},
journal = {Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining},
number = 3,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2019}
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