Higher heating value determination of wheat straw from Baja California, Mexico

Montero, Gisela; Coronado, Marcos A.; Torres, Ricardo Abel Del Castillo; Jaramillo, Beatriz E.; García, Conrado; Stoytcheva, Margarita; Vázquez, Ana María; León, José Á.; Arista, Alejandro Adolfo Lambert; Valenzuela, Edgar

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2016.05.011

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“…The use of rice straw as a feedstock was also evaluated by other investigators, which included the assessment of different pretreatment options with NaOH, H 2 SO 4 , NaClO 2 , and NaClO; HCl was always used as the catalyst for the final conversion of the post‐pretreated fiber to LA . Wheat, which is one of the most cultivated grains in the world, also creates an idle flow of biomass residue in the market that could be used in the production of LA . Investigators determined the optimal conditions for LA production from wheat straw, which are presented in Table …”

Section: La Production Processesmentioning

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Making Levulinic Acid and Ethyl Levulinate Economically Viable: A Worldwide Technoeconomic and Environmental Assessment of Possible Routes

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Ethyl levulinate is a diesel additive that has received special attention recently due to its potential for production in large quantities from inexpensive feedstocks. Several processes have been developed for the conversion of biomass into levulinic acid and ethyl levulinate, and an economic analysis of these routes would indicate the main hindering factors of their commercialization. This Review focuses on filling this gap in current knowledge by gathering data from scientific papers and patents to create a simulation to analyze processes by focusing on the production of ethyl levulinate in nine countries or regions across the globe. The key indicator to analyze the economic feasibility of ethyl levulinate production is a comparison of its minimum selling price to the local wholesale price of diesel on an energy basis. Processes simulated in Brazil, China, and India presented promising results with feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and rice residues. Also, the integration of ethyl levulinate production into existing ethanol plants is a factor that may improve process economics. Overall, this Review specifies key factors in economic and environmental performances of the processes to indicate research topics that could achieve high impact on industrial‐scale processes once matured.

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“…[90] Wheat, which is one of the most cultivated grainsi nt he world, also creates an idle flow of biomass residuei nt he market that could be used in the productiono fL A. [91] Investigators determined the optimal conditions for LA production from wheat straw,w hich are presented in Table 1. [92]…”

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Making Levulinic Acid and Ethyl Levulinate Economically Viable: A Worldwide Technoeconomic and Environmental Assessment of Possible Routes

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“…Higher heating values are measured empirically using a bomb calorimeter and the LHV is calculated from HHV using knowledge of the mass fraction of hydrogen in the reactants. Higher heating values can also be estimated based on ultimate analysis (Montero et al 2016). In a typical application of biomass fuel, the latent heat of vaporization of water in the reactants is lost so LHV is a more practical measure of useful energy in a fuel.…”

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“…Higher heating value is generally reported in wet basis (wb) where the mass fraction of water in the reactants is included in the mass of the reactants. Montero et al (2016) used Eqs. 1 and 2 to estimate the LHV from HHV.…”

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Factors affecting the utilization of lignocellulosic biomass; compaction, handling and storage, and monetary value – a review.

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2017

Can. Biosyst. Eng.

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“…With the results obtained from this analysis, it is possible to deine the most suitable biomass conversion process, e.g., biological or thermochemical processes. It also permits establishing fuel quality criteria, among others [16].…”

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SWOT Analysis Applied to Wheat Straw Utilization as a Biofuel in Mexico

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García²,

Coronado³

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Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels

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Wheat is one of the main crops worldwide with a production of 733 million of tons by 2015. By 2013, the wheat grain production in Mexico was 3,357,307 t. Wheat straw is generated as a biomass waste once the wheat is harvested. However, the agricultural biomass waste has acquired international relevance as a source of bioenergy. The utilization of bioenergy has signiicant environmental beneits, and also economic beneits because the biomass waste is valorized as biofuel. The use of wheat straw as raw material for any productive process presents diverse factors that must be considered. Among those factors are the low density of biomass, handling and high transportation cost, an atractive heating value, and the physicochemical characterization. Therefore, the aim of this work was to apply the SWOT analysis to wheat straw utilization as a biofuel in Mexico. The main indings highlighted an estimation of 4,612,950.23 t of wheat straw generated. The experimental results of proximate analysis were 64.42% volatile mater, 19.49% ixed carbon and 16.09% ash. The higher heating was 14.86 MJ/kg. An energy potential of 69 PJ per agricultural cycle was calculated, equivalent to 19% of the biomass energy share reported in Mexico's National Energy Balance, by 2014.

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Higher heating value determination of wheat straw from Baja California, Mexico

Cited by 55 publications

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Making Levulinic Acid and Ethyl Levulinate Economically Viable: A Worldwide Technoeconomic and Environmental Assessment of Possible Routes

Making Levulinic Acid and Ethyl Levulinate Economically Viable: A Worldwide Technoeconomic and Environmental Assessment of Possible Routes

Factors affecting the utilization of lignocellulosic biomass; compaction, handling and storage, and monetary value – a review.

SWOT Analysis Applied to Wheat Straw Utilization as a Biofuel in Mexico

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