Comprehensive techno-economic and environmental assessment for 2,3-butanediol production from bread waste

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dc.contributor.authorTiwari, Bikash R.
dc.contributor.authorMaity, Sunil K.
dc.contributor.authorBrar, Satinder K.
dc.contributor.authorChew, Kit Wayne
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Gopalakrishnan
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Vinod
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-20T16:49:34Z
dc.date.available2024-11-20T16:49:34Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-11-20
dc.date.issued2024-11-15
dc.date.pubOnline2024-11-04
dc.description.abstractBread waste (BW) is a common food waste in Europe and North America and has enormous potential as a biorefinery substrate for the sustainable synthesis of various platform chemicals. Our previous work made use of BW for the fermentative production of 2,3–butanediol (BDO). The present work evaluated the economic prospects and environmental consequences associated with the overall processes, handling 100 metric tons BW per day. The comprehensive process design using Aspen Plus and integrated techno-economic and environmental assessment was carried out for two different BW hydrolysis scenarios: acid and enzyme hydrolysis, followed by fermentation and extraction-based downstream BDO separation. The optimal heat exchanger network was designed using pinch analysis, which improved the energy efficiency of the processes significantly, with about 10 % savings of BDO production costs. Despite this improvement, the BDO derived from BW was exorbitant (4.2–6.9 $/kg) compared to the market price (3.23 $/kg) due to relatively higher capital investment for the current plant capacity. Further, the process inventory was modelled in SimaPro v9.1.0 to estimate the environmental consequences of these production processes for various impact categories, such as global warming (2.63 – 3.19 kg CO2 eq.), marine eutrophication (3.55 × 10-4 – 4.01 × 10-4 kg N eq.), terrestrial ecotoxicity (6.44 – 7.88 kg 1,4 − DCB), etc. Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses were also conducted to establish the reliability of the results. It was found that the enzyme hydrolysis was associated with lower environmental impacts than acid hydrolysis. This comprehensive study can be used as a guideline for developing sustainable BW-based biorefinery in the future.
dc.description.journalNameChemical Engineering Journal
dc.description.sponsorshipNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors would like to acknowledge NSERC CRD grants and James and Joanne Love Chair in Environmental Engineering for funding this research.
dc.identifier.citationTiwari BR, Maity SK, Brar SK, et al., (2024) Comprehensive techno-economic and environmental assessment for 2,3-butanediol production from bread waste. Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 500, November 2024, Article number 157003
dc.identifier.elementsID555494
dc.identifier.issn1385-8947
dc.identifier.paperNo157003
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.157003
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23179
dc.identifier.volumeNo500
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894724084948?via%3Dihub
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject4004 Chemical Engineering
dc.subject40 Engineering
dc.subject4016 Materials Engineering
dc.subject4011 Environmental Engineering
dc.subject12 Responsible Consumption and Production
dc.subjectChemical Engineering
dc.subject4004 Chemical engineering
dc.subject4011 Environmental engineering
dc.subject4016 Materials engineering
dc.titleComprehensive techno-economic and environmental assessment for 2,3-butanediol production from bread waste
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-10-20

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