To establish the production cost and market needs for bio-butanol derived from integrated processing of municipal solid waste

使用城市固体废物(MSW)作为生产生物燃料的原料，应提供环境友好、更容易被社会接受的经济生物燃料。这种潜力为英国提供了一个巨大的机会来建立一个更可持续和环境友好的生物燃料产业，生活垃圾的替代利用将材料从垃圾填埋场转移出去，并且对社会、政治和环境更加友好。我们计划根据原料(MSW)的成本和使用高压灭菌技术、酶解和发酵技术进行预处理的相关转换成本来确定生物燃料生产成本。各个单元的运作都得到了很好的理解和测试，但需要整合在一起，以确定总体生产成本。

Use of municipal solid waste (MSW) as a feedstock for biofuel production should delivereconomic biofuels that are environmentally friendly and more socially acceptable. Thispotential provides the UK with a tremendous opportunity to build a more sustainable andenvironmentally friendly biofuel industry, Alternative uses of MSW diverts material awayfrom landfill and is more socially, politically and environmentaly friendly.We plan to determine biofuel production costs based on the cost of feedstock (MSW) and theassociated conversion costs for pre-treatment using autoclave technology, enzymatichydrolysis and fermentation technology. The individual unit operations are well understoodand tested but need to be integrated together in order to ascertain the overall production cost.