Design and Assessment of Advanced Thermochemical Plants for Second Generation Biobutanol Production Considering Mixed Alcohols Synthesis Kinetics

In prior work, the authors’ developed a novel process for producing second generation biobutanol through a thermochemical conversion route and mixed alcohols synthesis (MAS) process and showed that it was economically competitive to the biochemical route and to gasoline under certain market scenarios. However, the prior work made use of simplistic conversion models for the MAS reactor based on the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory …