Integration of hydrogenation-derived renewable diesel with conventional diesel

基于生物质的液体燃料生产正在引起人们的极大兴趣，它可以显著减少温室气体（GHG）。该研究项目旨在评估农业和林业生物质用于氢化衍生可再生柴油（HDRD）生产和开发知识库，以扩大这一途径的规模。生物柴油和HDRD都可以从植物油中生产，但不同之处在于加工方法和最终产品组成。能源公司越来越有兴趣生产HDRD而不是生物柴油，因为HDRD的化学成分更接近石油柴油，并且它可以比生物柴油具有更好的冷流特性，更适合加拿大等寒冷气候。这项研究将开发数据密集型技术经济模型，用于评估农业生物量（例如稻草或亚麻荠、油菜等谷物）和森林生物量（例如森林残体、整棵树、包括杨柳在内的能源作物）在适合加拿大的寒冷气候下的利用情况，并估计人类发展报告和发展的生产成本。将与其他生物质来源沿着对整个可再生柴油生产和利用过程进行能源和排放评估。这将有助于估计人类发展报告的生产和利用整个生命周期的温室气体排放总量。这一项目的结果将有助于石油工业清楚地了解以生物质为基础的人类减少灾害风险生产的成本以及通过各种途径生产人类减少灾害风险的减排成本。该项目旨在培训至少五名能源建模和可再生能源领域的高素质人员。这些HQP可以在加拿大快速发展的可再生能源部门发挥重要作用。

Biomass-based liquid fuel production is gaining a lot of interest and it can contribute significantly to reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG). This research project is aimed at assessment of agricultural and forestry biomass for hydrogenation-derived renewable diesel (HDRD) production and development of knowledge-base for scale-up of this pathway to larger scale. Both biodiesel and HDRD can be produced from vegetable oils but the differences lie in the processing methods and final product composition. Energy companies are becoming increasingly interested in producing HDRD rather than biodiesel because HDRD's chemical composition is much closer to that of petroleum diesel and it can have better cold flow properties than biodiesel which are more suitable to colder climate such as in Canada. This research will develop data intensive techno-economic models for assessment of the utilization of agricultural biomass (e.g. straw or grains such as camelina, canola) and forest biomass (e.g. forest residues, whole tree, energy crops including willow) for colder climate appropriate for Canada and estimate the cost of production of HDRD. An energy and emissions assessment of the whole renewable diesel production and utilization process will be conducted along with other sources of biomass. This will help in estimating the total GHG emissions over the life cycle of the HDRD production and utilization. The results of this project will help the petroleum industry with a clear understanding of the cost of biomass based HDRD production and the abatement costs of production of HDRD through various pathways. This project aims at training at least five highly qualified personnel (HQPs) in the area of energy modeling and renewable energy. These HQPs could play a significant role in fast developing renewable energy sector in Canada.