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Table 1 Assumptions made for the development of the sugar production model

From: Environmental assessment of mild bisulfite pretreatment of forest residues into fermentable sugars for biofuel production

Process

Assumptions

Biomass generation

845,000 tonnes/year to plant, with 75TPY fines screened to boiler. 770,000 going to the bioconversion process

Boiler

Efficiency and yields are comparable to the 2011 NREL Aspen model

MBS pretreatment

Biomass is at 50 % water content. FS-10, a blend of softwoods (Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine). Byproducts from the reaction will be comparable to those from NREL’s dilute acid model

Wastewater treatment

Efficiency and yields are comparable to the 2011 NREL Aspen model