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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Techno-economic Analysis (tea)"”.
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Incorporation of location-specific parameters and policy incentives in the Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) of biorefineries
… feedstocks. New feedstocks and conversion technologies are constantly evaluated via TEA to suggest areas along the biofuel supply chain in need of improvement. However, despite incentivization frequent evaluation, the production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass has historically …
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Quantifying Emissions and Costs of Geologic Hydrogen: An Integrated Lifecycle Emissions and Techno-economic Approach
… this thesis explores the lifecycle emissions and economic feasibility of geologic hydrogen production. This research extends Brandt's 2023 study of 'prospective' lifecycle assessment (LCA), enhancing the underlying open-source LCA model used in this work and adding a preliminary techno-economic …
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Identification of The Steel Decarbonization Options for Different Regions
… modeling. We evaluate the impact of technology replacement, fuel switching, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) on energy demand, costs, and emissions in crude steel production. The analysis is underpinned by two fundamental approaches: Techno-economic Analysis (TEA) and Life Cycle …
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Quantitative policy analysis for aviation biofuel production technologies
… the impacts of various policy options on the economic viability of six aviation biofuel production technologies. The pathways considered are isobutanol to jet from corn grain, hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) from inedible fats and oils (IFO), HEFA from palm fatty acid distillate …
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BioSTEAM: The open-source bioprocess simulation and techno-economic analysis modules in Python
Preliminary techno-economic analysis (TEA) of a chemical process provides critical information on the economic feasibility, technological bottlenecks, and venture risks due to process uncertainties. Current TEA methods generally rely on proprietary software to evaluate two to three design …
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PROCESS AND TECHNO-ECONOMIC MODELING FOR WASTE-TO-ENERGY PROCESSES TO IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE FACILITY SCALING
This dissertation presents a techno-economic analysis (TEA) of waste-to-energy (WTE) biofuel production using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). The study focuses on facility scaling, feedstock dynamics, unpiling strategies, and cost modeling to evaluate how process conditions and supply constraints …
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Experimental and modeling study for hydrothermal liquefaction of wet biowaste
… mechanism and overcome technical challenges. Technoeconomic analyses are performed to understand the economic feasibility of the process. The lab scale study conducts HTL with elevated temperatures (280-380°C) and times (10-60 min) to convert categorized food residues into biocrude oil. The …
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Valorization of wastewater-derived biomass via integrated aqueous systems
… and nutrient products through appropriate technologies. This thesis research leverages microorganisms that can metabolically assimilate waste organics and nutrients as storage compounds, and focus on developing integrated aqueous systems for conversion of wastewater-derived biomass into …
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Economic and environmental evaluation of emerging electric vehicle technologies
… of the EV market necessitates the development of technologies that facilitate an economically comparable transition away from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). Moreover, it is essential to incorporate sustainability considerations across the entire value chain of EVs to ensure a …
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Technical and economic assessment of renewable hydrogen production and utilization for the transportation sector
… as solar, wind, tidal, and biomass) through technologies including water electrolysis, biomass gasification, microbial fermentation, and water thermochemical cycles. The produced renewable hydrogen can then be utilized in the transportation sector via hydrogen fuel cell vehicles or after …
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Engineering efficient desalination systems: Materials development and systems analysis in capacitive deionization
… of alternative electrochemical desalination technologies that can operate at energy consumption near the thermodynamic limit of separation without membranes and at far lower pressures. However, the viability of CDI systems is limited by the low charge efficiency and influent concentration …
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Improving estimates of biorefinery sustainability via enhanced consideration of location
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Conversion of waste organic carbon and nutrient streams to renewable fuels through integrated biological funneling and catalytic hydrothermal upgrading
… is to advance the overall understanding of technological pathways for the production of liquid hydrocarbon fuel blendstocks from wastewater organic carbon and effluent nutrient streams by addressing critical barriers associated with either pathway using multi-disciplinary experimental and …
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Linking process-level biorefinery innovations to systems-scale sustainability
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Navigating the opportunity space of oilcane biorefineries through bioSTEAM, an open-source platform for streamlined design and process simulation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Prioritizing opportunities to advance sustainability of non-sewered sanitation systems through financing mechanisms and quantitative sustainable design
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01