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Life cycle assessment for bio-based production of p-Xylene
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Life cycle assessment for bio-based production of p-Xylene
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Annam
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Praneeth
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1994-
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Praneeth Annam
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Marianthi
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Marianthi Ierapetritou
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Rutgers University
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School of Graduate Studies
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theses
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2018-01
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2018
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eng
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The importance of sustainable routes for the production of chemicals has increased over past few decades. The success of a biorefinery is based on its competitiveness with traditional refineries in terms of economics and process sustainability. This work aims to evaluate the environmental performance of cradle-to-gate production of p-Xylene from ligno-cellulosic biomass by a novel process involving the hydrolysis of biomass using Molten Salt Hydrates (MSH process) developed by Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI) at University of Delaware and to compare with other existing hydrolysis processes including Dilute Acid (DA) and Concentrated Acid (CA) processes. The work is performed on ecoinvent database using ReCiPe and TRACI methods by a life cycle analysis software, SimaPro. Noticeably, CA and MSH processes perform better in climate change, fossil depletion and ecotoxicity when compared to the DA process. The main contributions for the MSH process arise from the processing of high amount of steam and cultivation and processing of biomass. Sensitivity analysis indicates a significant variance in the MSH process for different kinds of biomass feedstock used and for various energy scenarios for the generation of steam. The uncertainties resulting from the assumptions and developing technologies are assessed by performing uncertainty analysis using Monte Carlo Analysis.
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Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
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Xylene
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1 online resource (viii, 61 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Praneeth Annam
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doi:10.7282/T38D00FJ
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Annam
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Praneeth
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2018-01-02 16:00:36
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Praneeth Annam
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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