Nth-plant scenario for forest resources and short rotation woody crops: Biorefineries and depots in the contiguous US
Abstract
Estimating the US potential of woody material is of vital importance to ensure cost-effective supply logistics and develop a sustainable bioenergy and bioproducts industry. We analyzed a mature conversion technology for woody resources for the contiguous US that takes advantage of economies of scale: the nth-plant. Here, we developed a database to quantify the total accessible woody biomass within a distributed network of preprocessing depots and biorefineries considering both quality specifications for conversion and a target cost to compete with fossil fuels. We considered two categories of woody biomass: 1) forest residues from trees, tops and limbs produced from conventional thinning and timber harvesting operations as well as non-timber tree removal; and 2) short rotation woody crops such as poplar, willow, pine, and eucalyptus. A mixed integer linear programming model was developed to analyze scenarios with woody feedstock blends at variable biomass ash contents and cost targets at the biorefinery. When considering a target cost of 85.51 dollars/dry ton (2016$) at the biorefinery, the maximum accessible biomass from forest residues in 2040 remained constant at 106 million dry tons regardless of ash targets. Including short rotation woody crops as part of the blend increased the total accessible biomass to 153more »
- Authors:
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- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States); Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1962012
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1974331
- Report Number(s):
- INL/JOU-23-70982-Rev000
Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619; TRN: US2313055
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 325; Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; forest residues; optimization; short rotation woody crops; biofuel; biorefineries
Citation Formats
Hossain, Tasmin, Jones, Daniela S., Hartley, Damon S., Thompson, David N., Langholtz, Matthew, and Davis, Maggie. Nth-plant scenario for forest resources and short rotation woody crops: Biorefineries and depots in the contiguous US. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119881.
Hossain, Tasmin, Jones, Daniela S., Hartley, Damon S., Thompson, David N., Langholtz, Matthew, & Davis, Maggie. Nth-plant scenario for forest resources and short rotation woody crops: Biorefineries and depots in the contiguous US. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119881
Hossain, Tasmin, Jones, Daniela S., Hartley, Damon S., Thompson, David N., Langholtz, Matthew, and Davis, Maggie. Thu .
"Nth-plant scenario for forest resources and short rotation woody crops: Biorefineries and depots in the contiguous US". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119881. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1962012.
@article{osti_1962012,
title = {Nth-plant scenario for forest resources and short rotation woody crops: Biorefineries and depots in the contiguous US},
author = {Hossain, Tasmin and Jones, Daniela S. and Hartley, Damon S. and Thompson, David N. and Langholtz, Matthew and Davis, Maggie},
abstractNote = {Estimating the US potential of woody material is of vital importance to ensure cost-effective supply logistics and develop a sustainable bioenergy and bioproducts industry. We analyzed a mature conversion technology for woody resources for the contiguous US that takes advantage of economies of scale: the nth-plant. Here, we developed a database to quantify the total accessible woody biomass within a distributed network of preprocessing depots and biorefineries considering both quality specifications for conversion and a target cost to compete with fossil fuels. We considered two categories of woody biomass: 1) forest residues from trees, tops and limbs produced from conventional thinning and timber harvesting operations as well as non-timber tree removal; and 2) short rotation woody crops such as poplar, willow, pine, and eucalyptus. A mixed integer linear programming model was developed to analyze scenarios with woody feedstock blends at variable biomass ash contents and cost targets at the biorefinery. When considering a target cost of 85.51 dollars/dry ton (2016$) at the biorefinery, the maximum accessible biomass from forest residues in 2040 remained constant at 106 million dry tons regardless of ash targets. Including short rotation woody crops as part of the blend increased the total accessible biomass to 153 and 195 million dry tons at ash targets of 1% and 1.75%, respectively. We concluded from our analysis that woody resources could address about 55% of EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) target of 16 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuel.},
doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119881},
journal = {Applied Energy},
number = ,
volume = 325,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Thu Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
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