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    Performance Analysis of Integral Process of Bio-Oil Production, Bio-Oil Upgrading, and Hydrogen Production from Sewage Sludge
    (2023-09-14)
    Simasatitkul, Lida
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    Lakkhanasombut, Apiwat
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    Morin, Worawit
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    Jedsadajerm, Supachai
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    Amornraksa, Suksun
    This research investigated the production of bio-oil through the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process using sewage sludge from wastewater, along with the hydrotreating of the bio-oil. The simulation process began with a wastewater flow rate of 460 tonnes/day, where the feedstock was divided into two streams. The first stream underwent the HTL process, while the other was directed towards hydrogen production. The resulting products included gaseous products, crude bio-oil, and heavy liquid. The crude bio-oil was further upgraded by introducing hydrogen, which was obtained through gasification and purified by gas separation using a palladium membrane. The primary product mainly comprised alkane, with a carbon content of 85.89% and hydrogen content of 14.11%. For the purification of gasoline, kerosene, diesel, and fuel oil, a fractionation distillation tower arrangement was designed. In addition, Additionally, the gaseous products underwent fractionation distillation to obtain 98% nitrogen and 99.9% liquid carbon dioxide. Considering the carbon footprint, it was observed that the bio-oil production process resulted in the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    Complete design case study for pulp and paper industry
    (2022-01-01)
    Anantpinijwatna, Amata
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    Charoensuppanimit, Pongtorn
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    Mongkhonsiri, Ghochapon
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    Gani, Rafiqul
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    Assabumrungrat, Suttichai
    Pulp and paper industry is a traditional biorefinery system that produces low margin paper products at low innovation development. It needs business transformation to enhance profitability along with efficient material and energy consumption through process development of high-value bioproducts. In response to climate change concerns and declining petroleum resources, the concept of biorefinery has developed using biochemical and thermochemical technologies. To develop biorefinery together with the conventional pulp and paper industry, integrated biorefinery in the existing pulp mill has been designed as a long-term sustainable solution. A systematic framework is needed to synthesize and design promising integrated systems from numerous alternatives. A three-level methodology, involving Level-1 Base Case Design, Level-2 Optimization and Analysis, and Level-3 Innovation, is proposed as an effective approach to determine optimal technologies suitable for the transformation of the traditional system through superstructure optimization, process analysis, and process improvement in terms of economic and environmental issues. To achieve a sustainable development of the integrated biorefinery system, innovative alternatives are discovered to satisfy improvement targets. Computer-aided tools are employed to support systematic data collection, mathematical model formulation, and complicated problem solving. Case studies of synthesis, design and innovation tasks illustrating the application of the framework to obtain promising integrated pulp mill-biorefinery alternatives are presented.
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    Novel biorefinery-Integrated-Kraft-pulping network for sustainable development
    (2021-06-01)
    Mongkhonsiri, Ghochapon
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    Anantpinijwatna, Amata
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    Charoensuppanimit, Pongtorn
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    Arpornwichanop, Amornchai
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    Gani, Rafiqul
    Integration of the biorefinery concept to the existing Kraft-pulping process is undertaken to achieve a more sustainable development. This paper aims at developing a novel biorefinery-integrated-Kraft-pulping network with improved profitability, energy self-sufficiency and minimum CO<inf>2</inf> emission by employing technologies consisting of biofuel and biochemical productions, biomass gasification together with CO<inf>2</inf> capture and utilization. Three scenarios, including (I) the production of gasification-based dimethyl ether (DME); (II) the co-production of DME and succinic acid; and (III) the co-production of DME and succinic acid coupled with the CO<inf>2</inf> utilization, have been investigated. Among all scenarios, Scenario II exhibits the best economic performances as highlighted by the 74% increase of profit compared to the conventional process. Scenario III achieves the highest energy efficiency at 39% and an improved environmental performance due to the 65% reduction of CO<inf>2</inf> emission compared to the conventional process with only 0.7% profit reduction. Comparing to the biorefinery-integrated-Soda-pulping networks proposed by the previous work, the biorefinery-integrated-Kraft-pulping networks show higher performance on both economic and environmental improvements. Thereby confirming that the integration of the biorefinery network can improve the sustainability and enhance the economic benefit of the Kraft-pulping process beyond the conventional process.
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    Process intensification approach for design and optimization of biodiesel production from palm fatty acid distillate
    (2021-06-01)
    Im-orb, Karittha
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    Arpornwichanop, Amornchai
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    Simasatitkul, Lida
    Design of the biodiesel production from palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) using process intensification approach is studied in technical, economic and environmental view points. Firstly, the transport phenomena analysis is performed to select the suitable intensified unit. The reactive distillation is selected and used in esterification – transesterification process and hydrolysis – esterification process. The optimum condition of reactive distillation in esterification – transesterification is achieved when the methanol is fed at the 3rd stage of the 4-stage column and the liquid holdup is maintained at 6 m<sup>3</sup>. The intensified esterification – transesterification process offers higher biodiesel yield and consumes less energy compared with the intensified hydrolysis – esterification process. The economic analysis shows that the intensified esterification-transesterification process is found to be economically feasible. Finally, environment assessment based on life cycle analysis (LCA) indicates that the environmental impact of both processes are similar.
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    Energy saving characteristics of an internal heat integrated reactive distillation process for methyl acetate synthesis
    (2016-03-20)
    Yamaki, Takehiro
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    Matsuda, Keigo
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    Na-Ranong, Duangkamol
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    Matsumoto, Hideyuki
    A model for an internally heat integrated reactive distillation process without a compressor was developed, and the synthesis of methyl acetate from methanol and acetic acid was simulated. The applicability was evaluated by using the process simulator Aspen Plus. The steady state simulation showed that the energy consumption of the heat integrated reactive distillation process was lower than that of conventional reactive distillation.