case study of a biofuel technology

Case Study Of the Of the Biofuel Technology with Close Reference to the Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (DDCE ) LLC Plant

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Introduction

The DDCE Company is a one hundred and forty million dollars joint venture business between Genencor , which is a subsidiary business of Danisco , and the DuPont . The company , in collaboration with the research foundation of the University of Tennessee has established a cellulosic ethanol plant in Tennessee 's Vanore . Renewable plant materials are the core materials while the second generation fuel generation is

utilized . This case study analysis discusses the feedstock availability and its related average yields , the technology used , the biofuel yields , and the biofuel characteristics in comparison to those of the petrol fuel (Sissell 2008 , pp . 4-97

Feedstock Availability Its Average Yields

The biomass feedstock of the DDCE generates low carbon fuels . This helps to cater for the concerns arising from the long term security economic issues . The company 's feedstock uses the plant cellulosic biomass since the plant matters used contains lignin which comprise of grains , fruits and vegetables , among others . Its feedstock has fermentable sugars some of which are easily accessible to biochemical conversion . Based on Sissell 's argument , the availability and logistic yields per acre and the density and the land usage tend to influence the choice of the DDCE feedstock (Sissell 2008 , pp . 67-70 . Currently , the company has settled on the usage of gallons per acre yields and this is the reason why DDCE demonstrated its first bio-refineries using...