precisely, i know how much surplus agro-biomass is being available for a specified area! so, now i want to know how much butanol and ethanol can be produced from that surplus agro-biomass available. is there any mathematical correlation so that i can find the probable production of butanol and ethanol?
It clearly depends on the chemical composition of the raw material you are working with. There are several methods to degrade the biopolymers into reducing sugars (e.g. glucose and xylose). These methods include steam explosion, dilute acid pre-treatment and ozonolysis, amongst others. In some cases, additional operations such as enzymatic hydrolysis are required. My experience is on ethanol production. But there are few mathematical models for this, I will recommend some publications you can probably read. I hope this can help you a bit
Article Development and validation of a kinetic model for enzymatic ...
Article Dynamic model-based evaluation of process configurations for...
Article Modeling and optimization of the dilute-sulfuric-acid pretre...
Article Assessment of Combinations between Pretreatment and Conversi...
Hope below article could be helped:
Article The world availability of non-wood lignocellulosic biomass f...
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