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Project CHRISGAS
Chrisgas was a large European research project in the field of gasification of biomass and upgrading the producer gas to transportation fuels. 20 partners from 7 different countries, took part in this FP-6 project; amongst them CCS. The task of CCS within this project was to design the entire chain from biomass to biofuel (hydrogen, methanol and DME) and to calculate the energy balances and costs of these chains. Several reports of CCS and her project partners are accessible to the public, by the link
Additionally CCS has published two research papers on this project in the peer-reviewed journal Biomass and Bioenergy.
The first research paper is on the mass and energy balances of three biomass to biofuel chains. The fuels under consideration are methanol, DME (a fuel with characteristics similar to liquefied petroleum gas, that could replace diesel fuel), and hydrogen.
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The full reference of the paper is:
G.L.M.A. Van Rens, G.H. Huisman, H. De Lathouder, R.L. Cornelissen, Performance and exergy analysis of biomass-to-fuel plants producing methanol, dimethylether or hydrogen, Biomass and Bioenergy, Volume 35, Supplement 1, October 2011, Pages S145-S154, ISSN 0961-9534, 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.05.020.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953411002960)
The second paper, published by CCS is on the cost of these chains. This paper indicates what influences the production costs. Given the right conditions, DME from biomass may be competitive with diesel fuel.
Full reference of this paper is:
G.H. Huisman, G.L.M.A. Van Rens, H. De Lathouder, R.L. Cornelissen, Cost estimation of biomass-to-fuel plants producing methanol, dimethylether or hydrogen, Biomass and Bioenergy, Volume 35, Supplement 1, October 2011, Pages S155-S166, ISSN 0961-9534, 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.04.038.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953411002406)
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