Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization of Acid Pretreatment for Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production

• Published in: Computer Aided Chemical Engineering Vol. 40; pp. 2149 - 2154
• Main Authors: Verma, Sumit Kumar, Shastri, Yogendra
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Acid pretreatment; multiobjective optimization; process optimization; stochastic programming; multiobjective optimization; process optimization; stochastic programming; Acid pretreatment

Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass is a critical and cost intensive step in ethanol production requiring optimization. Dilute acid pretreatment depolymerizes xylan into xylose and lignin into acid soluble lignin (ASL). Since ideal conditions for both depolymerization reactions are different, a...