Economic value and environmental impact (EVEI) analysis of biorefinery systems |
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| Authors: | Elias Martinez-Hernandez Grant Campbell Jhuma Sadhukhan |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Process Integration, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;2. Satake Centre for Grain Process Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;3. Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK |
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| Abstract: | The selection of product portfolios, processing routes and the combination of technologies to obtain a sustainable biorefinery design according to economic and environmental criteria represents a challenge to process engineering. The aim of this research is to generate a robust methodology that assists process engineers to conceptually optimise the environmental and economic performances of biorefinery systems. A novel economic value and environmental impact (EVEI) analysis methodology is presented in this paper. The EVEI analysis is a tool that emerges from the combination of the value analysis method for the evaluation of economic potential with environmental footprinting for impact analysis. The methodology has been effectively demonstrated by providing insights into the performance of a bioethanol plant as a case study. The systematisation of the methodology allowed its implementation and integration into a computer-aided process engineering (CAPE) tool in the spreadsheet environment. |
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| Keywords: | Biorefinery Sustainable design Value analysis Environmental impact analysis LCA |
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