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Title: Supply Chain Sustainability Analysis of Three Biofuel Pathways

Abstract

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) collaborates with industrial, agricultural, and non-profit partners to develop and deploy biofuels and other biologically-derived products. As part of this effort, BETO and its national laboratory teams conduct in-depth techno-economic assessments (TEA) of technologies to produce biofuels as part state of technology (SOT) analyses. An SOT assesses progress within and across relevant technology areas based on actual experimental results relative to technical targets and cost goals from design cases and includes technical, economic, and environmental criteria as available. Overall assessments of biofuel pathways begin with feedstock production and the logistics of transporting the feedstock from the farm or plantation to the conversion facility or biorefinery. The conversion process itself is modeled in detail as part of the SOT analysis. The teams then develop an estimate of the biofuel minimum selling price (MSP) and assess the cost competitiveness of the biofuel with conventional fuels such as gasoline.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE - EE
OSTI Identifier:
1149014
Report Number(s):
INL/EXT-14-31834
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; Biochemical, Gasificatoin, Pyrolysis Pathways Biof

Citation Formats

Jacobson, Jacob J., Searcy, Erin, Cafferty, Kara, Dunn, Jennifer B., Johnson, Michael, Wang, Zhichao, Wang, Michael, Biddy, Mary, Dutta, Abhijit, Inman, Daniel, Tan, Eric, Jones, Sue, and Snowden-Swan, Lesley. Supply Chain Sustainability Analysis of Three Biofuel Pathways. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.2172/1149014.
Jacobson, Jacob J., Searcy, Erin, Cafferty, Kara, Dunn, Jennifer B., Johnson, Michael, Wang, Zhichao, Wang, Michael, Biddy, Mary, Dutta, Abhijit, Inman, Daniel, Tan, Eric, Jones, Sue, & Snowden-Swan, Lesley. Supply Chain Sustainability Analysis of Three Biofuel Pathways. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1149014
Jacobson, Jacob J., Searcy, Erin, Cafferty, Kara, Dunn, Jennifer B., Johnson, Michael, Wang, Zhichao, Wang, Michael, Biddy, Mary, Dutta, Abhijit, Inman, Daniel, Tan, Eric, Jones, Sue, and Snowden-Swan, Lesley. 2013. "Supply Chain Sustainability Analysis of Three Biofuel Pathways". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1149014. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1149014.
@article{osti_1149014,
title = {Supply Chain Sustainability Analysis of Three Biofuel Pathways},
author = {Jacobson, Jacob J. and Searcy, Erin and Cafferty, Kara and Dunn, Jennifer B. and Johnson, Michael and Wang, Zhichao and Wang, Michael and Biddy, Mary and Dutta, Abhijit and Inman, Daniel and Tan, Eric and Jones, Sue and Snowden-Swan, Lesley},
abstractNote = {The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) collaborates with industrial, agricultural, and non-profit partners to develop and deploy biofuels and other biologically-derived products. As part of this effort, BETO and its national laboratory teams conduct in-depth techno-economic assessments (TEA) of technologies to produce biofuels as part state of technology (SOT) analyses. An SOT assesses progress within and across relevant technology areas based on actual experimental results relative to technical targets and cost goals from design cases and includes technical, economic, and environmental criteria as available. Overall assessments of biofuel pathways begin with feedstock production and the logistics of transporting the feedstock from the farm or plantation to the conversion facility or biorefinery. The conversion process itself is modeled in detail as part of the SOT analysis. The teams then develop an estimate of the biofuel minimum selling price (MSP) and assess the cost competitiveness of the biofuel with conventional fuels such as gasoline.},
doi = {10.2172/1149014},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1149014}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
}