Techno-economic assessment of bioenergy and biofuel production in integrated sugarcane biorefinery: Identification of technological bottlenecks and economic feasibility of dilute acid pretreatment

Techno-economic analysis of first- and second-generation (1G2G) integrated sugarcane biorefinery producing ethanol and electricity was performed, exploring the virtues and limitations of dilute acid pretreatment. Process variables such as solid content in the pretreatment reactor, enzymatic hydrolysis time, and the possibility of pentose fermentation were pondered using computational tools and simulation platforms to assess the impacts of the...