LAPSE:2020.0374
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LAPSE:2020.0374
A Technoeconomic Platform for Early-Stage Process Design and Cost Estimation of Joint Fermentative‒Catalytic Bioprocessing
Mothi Bharath Viswanathan, D. Raj Raman, Kurt A. Rosentrater, Brent H. Shanks
April 14, 2020
Technoeconomic analyses using established tools such as SuperPro Designer® require a level of detail that is typically unavailable at the early stage of process evaluation. To facilitate this, members of our group previously created a spreadsheet-based process modeling and technoeconomic platform explicitly aimed at joint fermentative‒catalytic biorefinery processes. In this work, we detail the reorganization and expansion of this model—ESTEA2 (Early State Technoeconomic Analysis, version 2), including detailed design and cost calculations for new unit operations. Furthermore, we describe ESTEA2 validation using ethanol and sorbic acid process. The results were compared with estimates from the literature, SuperPro Designer® (Version 8.5, Intelligen Inc., Scotch Plains, NJ, 2013), and other third-party process models. ESTEA2 can perform a technoeconomic analysis for a joint fermentative‒catalytic process with just 12 user-supplied inputs, which, when modeled in SuperPro Designer®, required approximately eight additional inputs such as equipment design configurations. With a reduced amount of user information, ESTEA2 provides results similar to those in the literature, and more sophisticated models (ca. 7%−11% different).
Keywords
cost analysis, early-stage, Ethanol, process modeling, sorbic acid, SuperPro
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Viswanathan MB, Raman DR, Rosentrater KA, Shanks BH. A Technoeconomic Platform for Early-Stage Process Design and Cost Estimation of Joint Fermentative‒Catalytic Bioprocessing. (2020). LAPSE:2020.0374
Author Affiliations
Viswanathan MB: Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Raman DR: Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Rosentrater KA: Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA [ORCID]
Shanks BH: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Processes
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8
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2
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E229
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2020
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2020-02-16
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2227-9717
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