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CT&F - Ciencia, Tecnología y Futuro

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Abstract

ALBERNAS-CARVAJAL, Yailet et al. OPTIMAL DESIGN FOR AN ETHANOL PLANT COMBINING FIRST AND SECOND-GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES. C.T.F Cienc. Tecnol. Futuro [online]. 2014, vol.5, n.5, pp.97-120. ISSN 0122-5383.

The synthesis and optimal design of batch plants is addressed in this study. It was applied to the technology of conventional ethanol production in a Cuban distillery using the product of enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated bagasse as another sugared substrate, starting from laboratory results. The optimal configuration of stages, the number of units in each stage, the unit sizes and minimum total production cost are obtained from the global optimization model and the proposed superstructure. This global model is a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulation, which is represented and resolved by the Professional Software, General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) version 23.5 applying DICOPT Solver. Different scenarios are analyzed: attaching pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of bagasse to a conventional distillery plant, selling ethanol, or selling the furfural as by-product if there is a guaranteed market. With this, an actual net present value (VNA) of USD 44´893 358.7 and 1.51 years of Payback Period (PP) are obtained.

Keywords : Bioethanol; Production; Optimization; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Models; Superstructure; Profitability.

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