Life Cycle Costs and Life Cycle Assessment for the Harvesting, Conversion, and the Use of Switchgrass to Produce Electricity

This paper considers both LCA and LCC of the pyrolysis of switchgrass to use as an energy source in a conventional power plant. The process consists of cultivation, harvesting, transportation, storage, pyrolysis, transportation, and power generation. Here pyrolysis oil is converted to electric power...

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Main Authors: Nuttapol Lerkkasemsan, Luke E. K. Achenie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:International Journal of Chemical Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/492058