Integrated Biorefineries : Design, Analysis, and Optimization

Integrated Biorefineries : Design, Analysis, and Optimization examines how to create a competitive edge in biorefinery innovation through integration into existing processes and infrastructure. Leading experts from around the world working in design, synthesis, and optimization of integrated biorefineries present the various aspects of this complex process, capturing the state of the art in the advancing bioeconomy. The book defines an integrated biorefinery as a processing facility that transforms biomass into value-added products—from biofuels and biochemicals to food and pharmaceuticals. The chapters cover biorefinery product and process design, supply chains, process analysis, feedstocks, technologies, and policy and environmental analysis. They focus on second-generation feedstocks, including forestry resources, energy crops, agricultural residues, oils, and various waste materials.

With the growing interest in sustainability in general and in renewable resources in industrial facilities, biorefineries are likely to play increasingly significant roles and have greater economic, environmental, and societal impact. This book fills an information gap by presenting cutting-edge advances that can effectively guide engineers and decision makers in the synthesis, selection, design, analysis, and optimization of biorefineries.

Preface

Part I : Biorefinery Product and Process Design
Chapter 1 : Product Portfolio Selection and Process Design for the Forest Biorefinery
Chapter 2 : Systematic Screening of Multiple Processing Paths in Biorefineries: The ABC (Assessing Biomass to Chemicals) Project and Its Potential to Build Process Synthesis Capabilities
Chapter 3 : Technoeconomic Assessment and Risk Analysis of Biorefinery Processes
Chapter 4 : Technoeconomic Analysis of Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Hardwoods in a Repurposed Kraft Mill
Chapter 5 : Cost Integration Methodology and the Forest Biorefinery
Chapter 6 : Technoeconomic Analysis of a Lignocellulose-to-Hydrocarbons Process Using a Carboxylate Platform

Part II : Biorefinery Supply Chains
Chapter 7 : Value-Chain Management Considerations for the Biorefinery
Chapter 8 : Integrated Forest Biorefinery Supply Chain Network Design Using Mathematical Programming Approach
Chapter 9 : Forest Biorefinery Supply Chain Design and Process Flexibility

Part III : Biorefinery Process Analysis
Chapter 10 : Optimal Synthesis of Sustainable Biorefineries
Chapter 11 : Methodologies Developed and Applied in Process Integration Studies for the Swedish Kraft Pulp and Paper Industry: A Review
Chapter 12 : Design of a Lignocellulosic Feedstock Biorefinery Based on a Biochemical Processing Platform Using Process Integration Methodologies and Exergy Analysis
Chapter 13 : Automated Targeting for the Synthesis of an Integrated Biorefinery
Chapter 14 : Synthesis of Flexible Heat-Exchanger Networks for Multifeedstock Biodiesel Production Processes

Part IV : Biorefinery Feedstocks
Chapter 15 : A Literature Review of Biomass Feedstocks for a Biorefinery
Chapter 16 : Lignocellulosic Biomass: A Raw Material for the Future
Chapter 17 : Food Waste as a Renewable Raw Material for the Development of Integrated Biorefineries: Current Status and Future Potential

Part V : Biorefinery Technologies
Chapter 18 : The Forest Biorefinery: Current State of the Art
Chapter 19 : Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Fuels and Chemicals
Chapter 20 : Enzyme Applications in the Forest-Based Biorefinery
Chapter 21 : Biochemical Conversion
Chapter 22 : Separation of Hemicellulose by Hot-Water Extraction from Woody Biomass
Chapter 23 : Integrated Utilization of Algae Biomass in a Biorefinery Based on a Biochemical Processing Platform

Part VI : Biorefinery Policy and Environmental Analysis
Chapter 24 : Policy Options to Support Biorefining
Chapter 25 : Biopower in the U.S. South: Barriers, Drivers, and Potential for Expansion
Chapter 26 : Biorefinery Design from an Earth Systems Perspective
Chapter 27 : LCA-Based Environmental Evaluation of Biorefinery Projects

Index