Economic perspective of ethanol and biodiesel coproduction from industrial hemp
Abstract
Herein, the economics of producing biofuels from an industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) genotype e 19m96136 was investigated. A lignocellulosic biofuel plant, hourly consuming 85 metric tons of hemp biomass was modeled in SuperPro Designer®. The integrated bioenergy plant produced hemp biodiesel and bioethanol from lipids and carbohydrates, respectively. The structural composition of the industrial hemp plant was analyzed in a previous study. The data obtained was used to simulate feedstock composition in SuperPro Designer®. The simulation results indicated that Hemp containing 2% lipids can yield up to 3.95 million gallons of biodiesel annually. On improving biomass lipid content to 5 and 10%, biodiesel production increased to 9.88 and 19.91 million gallons, respectively. The breakeven unit production cost of hemp biodiesel with 2, 5, and 10% lipid containing hemp was $18.49, $7.87, and $4.13/gallon, respectively. The biodiesel unit production cost when utilizing 10% lipid-containing hemp was comparable to soybean biodiesel at $4.13/ gallon. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis revealed the possibility of a 7.80% reduction in unit production cost upon a 10% reduction in hemp feedstock cost. Furthermore, industrial hemp was capable of pro- ducing between 307.80 and 325.82 gallons of total biofuels per hectare of agricultural land than soybean.
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[1];
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
- Publication Date:
- 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:
- 1807589
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1782742
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018420
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 299; Journal ID: ISSN 0959-6526
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; Biodiesel; Bioethanol; Technoeconomic analysis; Industrial hemp; Triacylglycerol; Fatty acid methyl esters
Citation Formats
Viswanathan, Mothi Bharath, Cheng, Ming-Hsun, Clemente, Tom Elmo, Dweikat, Ismail, and Singh, Vijay. Economic perspective of ethanol and biodiesel coproduction from industrial hemp. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126875.
Viswanathan, Mothi Bharath, Cheng, Ming-Hsun, Clemente, Tom Elmo, Dweikat, Ismail, & Singh, Vijay. Economic perspective of ethanol and biodiesel coproduction from industrial hemp. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126875
Viswanathan, Mothi Bharath, Cheng, Ming-Hsun, Clemente, Tom Elmo, Dweikat, Ismail, and Singh, Vijay. Sun .
"Economic perspective of ethanol and biodiesel coproduction from industrial hemp". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126875. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1807589.
@article{osti_1807589,
title = {Economic perspective of ethanol and biodiesel coproduction from industrial hemp},
author = {Viswanathan, Mothi Bharath and Cheng, Ming-Hsun and Clemente, Tom Elmo and Dweikat, Ismail and Singh, Vijay},
abstractNote = {Herein, the economics of producing biofuels from an industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) genotype e 19m96136 was investigated. A lignocellulosic biofuel plant, hourly consuming 85 metric tons of hemp biomass was modeled in SuperPro Designer®. The integrated bioenergy plant produced hemp biodiesel and bioethanol from lipids and carbohydrates, respectively. The structural composition of the industrial hemp plant was analyzed in a previous study. The data obtained was used to simulate feedstock composition in SuperPro Designer®. The simulation results indicated that Hemp containing 2% lipids can yield up to 3.95 million gallons of biodiesel annually. On improving biomass lipid content to 5 and 10%, biodiesel production increased to 9.88 and 19.91 million gallons, respectively. The breakeven unit production cost of hemp biodiesel with 2, 5, and 10% lipid containing hemp was $18.49, $7.87, and $4.13/gallon, respectively. The biodiesel unit production cost when utilizing 10% lipid-containing hemp was comparable to soybean biodiesel at $4.13/ gallon. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis revealed the possibility of a 7.80% reduction in unit production cost upon a 10% reduction in hemp feedstock cost. Furthermore, industrial hemp was capable of pro- ducing between 307.80 and 325.82 gallons of total biofuels per hectare of agricultural land than soybean.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126875},
journal = {Journal of Cleaner Production},
number = ,
volume = 299,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Sun Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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