Techno-economic Analysis of a Thermochemical Lignocellulosic Biomass-to-Butanol Process

Biobutanol production through the thermochemical route allows the use of a wide variety of feedstocks (including lignocellulosic biomass) and is a potentially superior alternative to the biochemical route. However the thermochemical route is poorly understood and no techno-economic studies of the thermochemical route exist in the peer-reviewed literature to our knowledge. To address this issue, this work focuses on the use of CAPE tools in …