Life cycle sustainability assessment of wood derived drop-in biofuels — Case of the Northeast Forest based product industry

Author

Bortsie-Aryee, Nana Awuah ; Halog, Anthony ; Wheeler, Clayton

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

THE biofuel research and production sector is enjoying an unprecedented amount of public and private efforts in order to remove various financial, ethical and technical barriers. One of these very important barriers is the challenge of developing biofuels that are compatible with existing gasoline, jet fuel and diesel infrastructure. Drop-in biofuel is a fuel produced from various biomass which are compatible with over $9 trillion energy refinery and gas station infrastructure currently available in the United States. The system boundary included stages like biomass production (including site preparation and seedling production), biomass transportation, biomass conversion (TDO process) and fuel utilization.

Keywords

biofuel; renewable materials; sustainable development; wood; biomass conversion; biomass production; biomass transportation; diesel infrastructure; drop-in biofuel research; energy refinery; gas station infrastructure; gasoline; jet fuel utilization; life cycle sustainability assessment; northeast forest based product industry; production sector; seedling production; system boundary; wood derived drop-in biofuels; Biofuels; Biomass; Educational institutions; Global warming; Production; Vegetation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

2157-524X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2003-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSST.2012.6228026

Filename

6228026