Life Cycle Costs and Life Cycle Assessment for the Harvesting, Conversion, and the Use of Switchgrass to Produce Electricity

dc.contributor.authorLerkkasemsan, Nuttapolen
dc.contributor.authorAchenie, Luke E. K.en
dc.contributor.departmentChemical Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-18T09:46:24Zen
dc.date.available2017-09-18T09:46:24Zen
dc.date.issued2013-09-23en
dc.date.updated2017-09-18T09:46:24Zen
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers both LCA and LCC of the pyrolysis of switchgrass to use as an energy source in a conventional power plant. The process consists of cultivation, harvesting, transportation, storage, pyrolysis, transportation, and power generation. Here pyrolysis oil is converted to electric power through cocombustion in conventional fossil fuel power plants. Several scenarios are conducted to determine the effect of selected design variables on the production of pyrolysis oil and type of conventional power plants. The set of design variables consist of land fraction, land shape, the distance needed to transport switchgrass to the pyrolysis plant, the distance needed to transport pyrolysis oil to electric generation plant, and the pyrolysis plant capacity. Using an average agriculture land fraction of the United States at 0.4, the estimated cost of electricity from pyrolysis of 5000 tons of switchgrass is the lowest at $0.12 per kwh. Using natural gas turbine power plant for electricity generation, the price of electricity can go as low as 7.70 cent/kwh. The main advantage in using a pyrolysis plant is the negative GHG emission from the process which can define that the process is environmentally friendly.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationNuttapol Lerkkasemsan and Luke E. K. Achenie, “Life Cycle Costs and Life Cycle Assessment for the Harvesting, Conversion, and the Use of Switchgrass to Produce Electricity,” International Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol. 2013, Article ID 492058, 16 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/492058en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2013/492058en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/78985en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherHindawien
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2013 Nuttapol Lerkkasemsan and Luke E. K. Achenie. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleLife Cycle Costs and Life Cycle Assessment for the Harvesting, Conversion, and the Use of Switchgrass to Produce Electricityen
dc.title.serialInternational Journal of Chemical Engineeringen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Name:
IJCE.2013.492058.xml
Size:
5.99 KB
Format:
Extensible Markup Language
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
IJCE.2013.492058.pdf
Size:
8.28 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.5 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: