IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/renene/v163y2021icp964-973.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evaluation of n-butene synthesis from dimethyl ether in the production of 1,3-butadiene from lignin: A techno-economic analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Hanaoka, Toshiaki
  • Fujimoto, Shinji
  • Kihara, Hideyuki

Abstract

1,3-BD production process from lignin consisting of four unit operations such as gasification, dimethyl ether (DME) synthesis, n-butene synthesis, and isomerization/dehydrogenation, was simulated. This process could be designed as a renewable energy system that can not only produce 1,3-BD but also self-supply almost all the heat and power for the operation. The balance of payment (BP), which is the income incurred from processing a unit weight of lignin, was employed as the economic efficiency of the process. The effect of the reaction conditions in the DME to n-butene synthesis step (the third step) on the BP was investigated. Since few catalysts have been reported for synthesizing n-butene from DME, realistic reaction conditions and catalytic performance were set. An increase in the DME content of the feed gas and a decrease in the reaction pressure led to an increase in the n-butene yield and a decrease in the power, followed by an increase in the 1,3-BD yield and BP. Considering the expected power selling price after the termination of the Feed-in-Tariff scheme, the 1,3-BD production process could have comparable BPs with gasification power generation as a representative competitive process.

Suggested Citation

  • Hanaoka, Toshiaki & Fujimoto, Shinji & Kihara, Hideyuki, 2021. "Evaluation of n-butene synthesis from dimethyl ether in the production of 1,3-butadiene from lignin: A techno-economic analysis," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 163(C), pages 964-973.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:163:y:2021:i:c:p:964-973
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.08.158
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148120314038
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.renene.2020.08.158?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Martinez-Hernandez, Elias & Sadhukhan, Jhuma & Campbell, Grant M., 2013. "Integration of bioethanol as an in-process material in biorefineries using mass pinch analysis," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 517-526.
    2. Moioli, Stefania & Giuffrida, Antonio & Romano, Matteo C. & Pellegrini, Laura A. & Lozza, Giovanni, 2016. "Assessment of MDEA absorption process for sequential H2S removal and CO2 capture in air-blown IGCC plants," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 1452-1470.
    3. Fernández-Polanco, D. & Tatsumi, H., 2016. "Optimum energy integration of thermal hydrolysis through pinch analysis," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 96(PB), pages 1093-1102.
    4. McDonagh, Shane & Wall, David M. & Deane, Paul & Murphy, Jerry D., 2019. "The effect of electricity markets, and renewable electricity penetration, on the levelised cost of energy of an advanced electro-fuel system incorporating carbon capture and utilisation," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 364-371.
    5. Fasahati, Peyman & Liu, J. Jay & Ohlrogge, John B. & Saffron, Christopher M., 2019. "Process design and economics for production of advanced biofuels from genetically modified lipid-producing sorghum," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 239(C), pages 1459-1470.
    6. Sindhu, Raveendran & Gnansounou, Edgard & Binod, Parameswaran & Pandey, Ashok, 2016. "Bioconversion of sugarcane crop residue for value added products – An overview," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 203-215.
    7. Jaafari, Laila & Ibrahim, Hussameldin & Jaffary, Bander & Idem, Raphael, 2019. "Catalytic production of furfural by pressurized liquid water liquefaction of flax straw," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 1176-1184.
    8. Yu, Haimiao & Wu, Zilu & Chen, Geng, 2018. "Catalytic gasification characteristics of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 559-567.
    9. Pighinelli, Anna L.M.T. & Schaffer, Mark A. & Boateng, Akwasi A., 2018. "Utilization of eucalyptus for electricity production in Brazil via fast pyrolysis: A techno-economic analysis," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 590-597.
    10. Hanaoka, Toshiaki & Fujimoto, Shinji & Kihara, Hideyuki, 2019. "Improvement of the 1,3-butadiene production process from lignin – A comparison with the gasification power generation process," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 1303-1313.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Hanaoka, Toshiaki & Fujimoto, Shinji & Kihara, Hideyuki, 2019. "Improvement of the 1,3-butadiene production process from lignin – A comparison with the gasification power generation process," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 1303-1313.
    2. Safder, Usman & Lim, Juin Yau & How, Bing Shen & Ifaei, Pouya & Heo, SungKy & Yoo, ChangKyoo, 2022. "Optimal configuration and economic analysis of PRO-retrofitted industrial networks for sustainable energy production and material recovery considering uncertainties: Bioethanol and sugar mill case stu," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 182(C), pages 797-816.
    3. Maghzian, Ali & Aslani, Alireza & Zahedi, Rahim & Yaghoubi, Milad, 2023. "How to effectively produce value-added products from microalgae?," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 262-276.
    4. Igor Donskoy, 2023. "Techno-Economic Efficiency Estimation of Promising Integrated Oxyfuel Gasification Combined-Cycle Power Plants with Carbon Capture," Clean Technol., MDPI, vol. 5(1), pages 1-18, February.
    5. Ren, Siyue & Feng, Xiao & Wang, Yufei, 2021. "Emergy evaluation of the integrated gasification combined cycle power generation systems with a carbon capture system," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 147(C).
    6. Shen, Guannan & Yuan, Xinchuan & Chen, Sitong & Liu, Shuangmei & Jin, Mingjie, 2022. "High titer cellulosic ethanol production from sugarcane bagasse via DLCA pretreatment and process development without washing/detoxifying pretreated biomass," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 186(C), pages 904-913.
    7. Feng, Junfeng & Yang, Zhongzhi & Hse, Chung-yun & Su, Qiuli & Wang, Kui & Jiang, Jianchun & Xu, Junming, 2017. "In situ catalytic hydrogenation of model compounds and biomass-derived phenolic compounds for bio-oil upgrading," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 140-148.
    8. Jiang, Jianrong & Feng, Xiao, 2019. "Energy optimization of ammonia synthesis processes based on oxygen purity under different purification technologies," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 819-828.
    9. Jabeen, Gul & Ahmad, Munir & Zhang, Qingyu, 2021. "Perceived critical factors affecting consumers’ intention to purchase renewable generation technologies: Rural-urban heterogeneity," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
    10. Jabeen, Gul & Yan, Qingyou & Ahmad, Munir & Fatima, Nousheen & Jabeen, Maria & Li, Heng & Qamar, Shoaib, 2020. "Household-based critical influence factors of biogas generation technology utilization: A case of Punjab province of Pakistan," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 154(C), pages 650-660.
    11. Souza, Simone Pereira & Nogueira, Luiz Augusto Horta & Martinez, Johan & Cortez, Luis Augusto Barbosa, 2018. "Sugarcane can afford a cleaner energy profile in Latin America & Caribbean," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 164-172.
    12. Pérez, Nestor Proenza & Pedroso, Daniel Travieso & Machin, Einara Blanco & Antunes, Julio Santana & Tuna, Celso Eduardo & Silveira, José Luz, 2019. "Geometrical characteristics of sugarcane bagasse for being used as fuel in fluidized bed technologies," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 1210-1224.
    13. Khanna, Tarun M., 2022. "Using agricultural demand for reducing costs of renewable energy integration in India," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 254(PC).
    14. Gabriel S. Aruwajoye & Alaika Kassim & Akshay K. Saha & Evariste B. Gueguim Kana, 2020. "Prospects for the Improvement of Bioethanol and Biohydrogen Production from Mixed Starch-Based Agricultural Wastes," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-22, December.
    15. Zabed, H. & Sahu, J.N. & Suely, A. & Boyce, A.N. & Faruq, G., 2017. "Bioethanol production from renewable sources: Current perspectives and technological progress," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 475-501.
    16. Eva Catalán & Antoni Sánchez, 2020. "Solid-State Fermentation (SSF) versus Submerged Fermentation (SmF) for the Recovery of Cellulases from Coffee Husks: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Based Comparison," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-20, May.
    17. Arnaiz del Pozo, Carlos & Cloete, Schalk & Jiménez Álvaro, Ángel, 2023. "Ammonia from solid fuels: A cost-effective route to energy security with negative CO2 emissions," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 278(PA).
    18. Vandenberghe, L.P.S. & Valladares-Diestra, K.K. & Bittencourt, G.A. & Zevallos Torres, L.A. & Vieira, S. & Karp, S.G. & Sydney, E.B. & de Carvalho, J.C. & Thomaz Soccol, V. & Soccol, C.R., 2022. "Beyond sugar and ethanol: The future of sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    19. Fasahati, Peyman & Wu, Wenzhao & Maravelias, Christos T., 2019. "Process synthesis and economic analysis of cyanobacteria biorefineries: A superstructure-based approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 253(C), pages 1-1.
    20. Zhang, Bo & Chen, Jixiang & Kandasamy, Sabariswaran & He, Zhixia, 2020. "Hydrothermal liquefaction of fresh lemon-peel and Spirulina platensis blending -operation parameter and biocrude chemistry investigation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:163:y:2021:i:c:p:964-973. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.