Life-Cycle and Technoeconomic Analysis

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Corinne Scown

Vice President for Life-Cycle, Economics and Agronomy and Director of Life-Cycle and Technoeconomic Analysis

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Umakant Mishra

Deputy Director of Life-Cycle and Technoeconomic Analysis

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Nawa Baral

Scientific Lead, Life-Cycle and Technoeconomic Analysis

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Sagar Gautam

Post Doctoral Researcher

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Tyler Huntington

Research Associate

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Yan Wang

Post Doctoral Researcher

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Tao Dai

Postdoctoral Researcher

Bioenergy research is driven by the need to mitigate climate change, ensure future energy security, improve human and ecological health, and create domestic employment opportunities. The Life-Cycle and Technoeconomic Analysis team conducts rigorous technoeconomic and environmental modeling during the early stages of research to help JBEI maximize the commercial viability and positive impact of its technologies. The LCA/TEA team has modeled the cost impacts of engineered feedstocks with reduced lignin content, evaluated a variety of pretreatment configurations with novel solvents and enzyme cocktails, and maintains an online wiki-based technoeconomic model. Researchers in the LCA/TEA team link chemical process models, life-cycle assessment tools, and geospatial modeling tools to provide a more complete assessment of the economic and environmental tradeoffs along each route to produce biofuels and bioproducts from lignocellulosic biomass.

Projects

  • Comparison of integrated, high-gravity pretreatment processes on the basis of cost, energy, and life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions
  • Quantifying the potential impact of engineering resilient, high yielding feedstocks
  • Life-cycle cost and environmental impact assessment of bio-derived sustainable aviation fuels
  • Machine learning to predict crop and biorefinery performance
  • Life-cycle and technoeconomic analysis of advanced fuel and bioproduct production routes

Featured Media

From the Lab to Jet Engines: New Software Tools will Speed Up Biojet Fuel Development

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Eco-friendly biofuels made from food waste could cut ‘flight shame’ among air travelers

Bright Skies for Plant-Based Jet Fuels

JBEI Pretreatment and Process Development Team Honored by Secretary of Energy

DOE Director's Award Ceremony

JBEI Expert Corinne Scown explains Techno-Economic Analysis

Leaving on a Biofueled Jet Plane

Amit Gokhale and Corinne Scown were leaders of an EBI research team that developed a catalytic process for converting sugarcane biomass into a new class of aviation fuel and lubricant base oils. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt)

From Sugarcane to Jet Fuel

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Researchers Find Sweet Source for Aviation Biofuel

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What happened to biofuels?

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Photo: The Economist

Cost of biofuels no longer sky high

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Photo: Craig Abraham

Researchers Delve into Enzyme Costs

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A Wiki for the Biofuels Research Community

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A Biofuels Wiki

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