Fundamental Investigations on System-Level Cost Evaluation for Economic Viability of Cellulosic Biofuel Manufacturing

纤维素生物燃料制造经济可行性的系统级成本评估的基础研究

• 批准号: 1434392
• 负责人: Lin Li
• 金额: $ 24.57万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1434392&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fundamental; Investigations; System; Level; Cost

This research can enable expanded production of ethanol from wood and other cellulose-based feedstocks by lowering the cost of production. This will contribute to resolving two major issues: energy shortage and global warming. Consequently, the success of this research will help improve the economic viability of the U.S. ethanol manufacturing industry, reduce oil dependence, and benefit the environment and society in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reduction. In a carbon-constrained world, this research will serve to green the U.S. transportation sector, and provide a competitive advantage to the U.S. renewable energy industry. This project will closely integrate with the training of graduate as well as undergraduate students, especially female and underrepresented minority students. The ideas and results will be broadly disseminated through classroom teachings, conference presentations, and journal publications. The research objective of this grant is to generate new knowledge to build a system-level cost model for cellulosic biofuel manufacturing utilizing the interrelations among major individual manufacturing processes and to establish the methodology for system-level cost-effective decision making to improve the economic viability of cellulosic biofuel manufacturing under the constraint of ethanol yield. First, existing experimental results will be analyzed to obtain the interrelations among individual cellulosic biofuel manufacturing processes. Then these obtained interrelations will be used to construct a system-level cost model for cellulosic biofuel manufacturing. Based on this model, a cost-effective decision making tool will be established to reduce the overall cost while maintaining the ethanol yield target of cellulosic biofuel manufacturing. Finally, experimental validations and scalability investigations of research results will be performed.

这项研究可以通过降低生产成本来扩大从木材和其他纤维素原料中生产乙醇。 这将有助于解决两大问题：能源短缺和全球变暖。因此，这项研究的成功将有助于提高美国乙醇制造业的经济可行性，减少对石油的依赖，并在减少温室气体排放方面造福环境和社会。在一个碳约束的世界，这项研究将有助于绿色美国运输部门，并为美国可再生能源行业提供竞争优势。该项目将与研究生和本科生的培训密切结合，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数民族学生。这些想法和结果将通过课堂教学、会议报告和期刊出版物广泛传播。这项资助的研究目标是产生新的知识，以建立一个系统级的成本模型，利用主要的个别制造过程之间的相互关系，纤维素生物燃料制造，并建立系统级的成本效益的决策方法，以提高乙醇产量的约束下，纤维素生物燃料制造的经济可行性。首先，将分析现有的实验结果，以获得各个纤维素生物燃料制造过程之间的相互关系。然后，这些获得的相互关系将被用来构建一个系统级的成本模型，纤维素生物燃料制造。基于此模型，将建立一个具有成本效益的决策工具，以降低总成本，同时保持纤维素生物燃料生产的乙醇产量目标。最后，实验验证和可扩展性调查的研究结果将进行。