Economic perspective of ethanol and biodiesel coproduction from industrial hemp

Viswanathan, Mothi Bharath; Cheng, Ming-Hsun; Clemente, Tom Elmo; Dweikat, Ismail; Singh, Vijay

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126875

Title: Economic perspective of ethanol and biodiesel coproduction from industrial hemp

Journal Article · Sun Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Journal of Cleaner Production

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126875· OSTI ID:1807589

^[1]; Cheng, Ming-Hsun ^[1]; Clemente, Tom Elmo ^[2]; Dweikat, Ismail ^[2]; Singh, Vijay ^[1]

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)

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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Research Organization:: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), Urbana, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018420

OSTI ID:: 1807589

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1782742

Journal Information:: Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 299; ISSN 0959-6526

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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