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The impacts of biomass properties on pyrolysis yields, economic and environmental performance of the pyrolysis-bioenergy-biochar platform to carbon negative energy

Author:
Li, Wenqin, Dang, Qi, Brown, Robert C., Laird, David, Wright, Mark M.
Source:
Bioresource technology 2017 v.241 pp. 959-968
ISSN:
0960-8524
Subject:
ash content, biochar, biofuels, biomass, carbon, energy, environmental performance, feedstocks, grasses, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, hulls, models, prices, pyrolysis
Abstract:
This study evaluated the impact of biomass properties on the pyrolysis product yields, economic and environmental performance for the pyrolysis-biochar-bioenergy platform. We developed and applied a fast pyrolysis, feedstock-sensitive, regression-based chemical process model to 346 different feedstocks, which were grouped into five types: woody, stalk/cob/ear, grass/plant, organic residue/product and husk/shell/pit. The results show that biomass ash content of 0.3–7.7wt% increases biochar yield from 0.13 to 0.16kg/kg of biomass, and decreases biofuel yields from 87.3 to 40.7 gallons per tonne. Higher O/C ratio (0.88–1.12) in biomass decreases biochar yield and increases biofuel yields within the same ash content level. Higher ash content of biomass increases minimum fuel selling price (MFSP), while higher O/C ratio of biomass decreases MFSP within the same ash content level. The impact of ash and O/C ratio of biomass on GHG emissions are not consistent for all feedstocks.
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5730603