Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue?
Projects unsuitable for specific types of biomass can cause serious flow problems, capable of making the production unfeasible. This paper aims to identify whether there was available technological knowledge proper to design equipment that would guarantee a linear flow feed of biomass as raw materia...
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| author | Carlos Eduardo Fernandes Corrêa Daniel de C.L. e Penalva Santos José Vitor Bomtempo Flavia Chaves Alves Cristina Gomes Souza Ronney A. Mancebo Boloy |
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| description | Projects unsuitable for specific types of biomass can cause serious flow problems, capable of making the production unfeasible. This paper aims to identify whether there was available technological knowledge proper to design equipment that would guarantee a linear flow feed of biomass as raw material, searching patents applications, that is an efficient tool widely used to analyse technological scenarios. The results showed an increase in the patents number dealing with specific types of biomass as of 2016 – a pick of 14 patent application per year, but still in a very small number if compared to the number of patents applied on biomass in general – a pick of 5.974 patent application per year. Analysing together with problems occurred in cellulosic ethanol plants, these results seem to support the hypothesis that new technological developments will still be needed to allow plants to work efficiently with biomass as feedstock. This study brings a new approach to discussions about the challenges faced by second-generation ethanol plants, both in the search methodology developed for this research and in bringing the theme of biomass feeding and handling to the centre of debates on the next challenges for industrial pants using lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f53596ac0c0461ca545e6cbcdb03c352022-12-23T04:38:21ZengElsevierAlexandria Engineering Journal1110-01682022-12-0161121023310244Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue?Carlos Eduardo Fernandes Corrêa0Daniel de C.L. e Penalva Santos1José Vitor Bomtempo2Flavia Chaves Alves3Cristina Gomes Souza4Ronney A. Mancebo Boloy5UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Escola de Química, Centro de Tecnologia Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, Bloco E, Sala E-201, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro CEP 21941-909 Caixa Postal 68542, BrazilIFPE - Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco, Rua Sebastião Joventino, s/n°, Destilaria Central, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco CEP: 54.510-110, Brazil; Corresponding author.UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Escola de Química, Centro de Tecnologia Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, Bloco E, Sala E-201, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro CEP 21941-909 Caixa Postal 68542, BrazilUFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Escola de Química, Centro de Tecnologia Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, Bloco E, Sala E-201, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro CEP 21941-909 Caixa Postal 68542, BrazilCefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica, Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção e Sistemas, Av. Maracana 229, Rio de Janeiro CEP 20271-110, BrazilCefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica, Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção e Sistemas, Av. Maracana 229, Rio de Janeiro CEP 20271-110, BrazilProjects unsuitable for specific types of biomass can cause serious flow problems, capable of making the production unfeasible. This paper aims to identify whether there was available technological knowledge proper to design equipment that would guarantee a linear flow feed of biomass as raw material, searching patents applications, that is an efficient tool widely used to analyse technological scenarios. The results showed an increase in the patents number dealing with specific types of biomass as of 2016 – a pick of 14 patent application per year, but still in a very small number if compared to the number of patents applied on biomass in general – a pick of 5.974 patent application per year. Analysing together with problems occurred in cellulosic ethanol plants, these results seem to support the hypothesis that new technological developments will still be needed to allow plants to work efficiently with biomass as feedstock. This study brings a new approach to discussions about the challenges faced by second-generation ethanol plants, both in the search methodology developed for this research and in bringing the theme of biomass feeding and handling to the centre of debates on the next challenges for industrial pants using lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822002411BiomassFeedingEthanolCellulosicHandlingPatents |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Eduardo Fernandes Corrêa Daniel de C.L. e Penalva Santos José Vitor Bomtempo Flavia Chaves Alves Cristina Gomes Souza Ronney A. Mancebo Boloy Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue? Alexandria Engineering Journal Biomass Feeding Ethanol Cellulosic Handling Patents |
| title | Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue? |
| title_full | Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue? |
| title_fullStr | Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue? |
| title_short | Biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects: An underestimated issue? |
| title_sort | biomass feeding in cellulosic ethanol projects an underestimated issue |
| topic | Biomass Feeding Ethanol Cellulosic Handling Patents |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822002411 |
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