TY - JOUR AU - Nie, Yuhao AU - Bi, Xiaotao PY - 2018 DA - 2018/02/03 TI - Life-cycle assessment of transportation biofuels from hydrothermal liquefaction of forest residues in British Columbia JO - Biotechnology for Biofuels SP - 23 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Biofuels from hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of abundantly available forest residues in British Columbia (BC) can potentially make great contributions to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. A life-cycle assessment was conducted to quantify the GHG emissions of a hypothetic 100 million liters per year HTL biofuel system in the Coast Region of BC. Three scenarios were defined and investigated, namely, supply of bulky forest residues for conversion in a central integrated refinery (Fr-CIR), HTL of forest residues to bio-oil in distributed biorefineries and subsequent upgrading in a central oil refinery (Bo-DBR), and densification of forest residues in distributed pellet plants and conversion in a central integrated refinery (Wp-CIR). SN - 1754-6834 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1019-x DO - 10.1186/s13068-018-1019-x ID - Nie2018 ER -