This document discusses the challenges and opportunities in optimizing biomass supply chains for bioenergy and biofuel production. It reviews the main routes for producing bioenergy from terrestrial and aquatic biomass feedstocks. Global biofuel production is growing due to benefits like increased energy security, lower emissions, and rural development. However, fossil fuels are finite and causing environmental damage, so alternatives are needed. The document examines optimizing supply chains from various biomass sources and the technologies used to produce ethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuels and their intermediates. Biochemical and thermochemical conversion processes are outlined.
2. introduction
This paper describes the main challenges and
opportunities in modeling and optimization of
supply biomass bioenergy productions. It
reviews the main routes of energy from
biomass for bioenergy from terrestrial and
aquatic products for biofuels.
3. introduction
Global biofuels production is growing steadily
and will continue. Biofuels offer greater
energy security, reduced greenhouse gas
emissions and particulate matter, rural
development, better vehicle performance and
a reduction in oil demand.
4. Why?
It is not a secret that fossil fuels (hydrocarbons)
are finishing and we only hace resources for 20
years more, these are causing pollution,
greenhouse damage to the ozone layer and
therefore global warming; this is the reason why
new alternatives are sought to meet these
energy demands.
5. Cause
In this paper we study the ability of biomass to
produce biofuels as these are more
environmentally friendly, inexpensive and can
be obtained from a variety of sources; that is
the reason for studying several alternatives
for the production of these.
6. How?
We look for to optimize supply chains of
biomass for bioenergy, from aquatic and
terrestrial biomass, moving from the
laboratory to industrial plants behave like
looking at these substrate concentrations to
reproduce, high pressures and temperatures
than operate among others.
7. Terrestrial raw materials
Many types of biomass are available, the first
group includes grains of corn, sugar cane,
soybeans, oilseeds, etc.. These raw materials
are high in sugar or fat, and have a high yield
after converted into bioethanol or biodiesel.
8. Terrestrial raw materials
the use of these raw materials for the
production of biofuels could cause problems
in terms of food prices and production.
The second group of materials are not edible
starch, agricultural waste and forestry
residues other crops
9. Aquatic raw materials
Aquatic Biomass includes a diverse group of
photosynthetic algae and cyanobacteria
ranging from (microalgae and cyanobacteria)
to large seaweeds (macroalgae) Many macro
algae, micro algae and cyanobacteria serve to
drive the rapid growth of biomass. Certain
strains make extremely efficient use of light
and nutrients to grow.
12. methodologies used
biochemical technologies
The main biochemical conversion processes include
pretreatment, hydrolysis, biological or chemical
processing.
thermochemical technologies
used in addition to high temperature catalysts to
change the physical properties and chemical
structures of biomass resources. There are two
major pathways thermochemical reaction:
gasification and pyrolysis.
14. inference
These are endless advantages and applications
which have the production of biofuels, since they
reduce the environmental impact considerably
and also help meet the demand for oil in the
world, as this is more cost-effective renewable
and more environmentally friendly.