Meeting with Dr Dwarak
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| Department | Dry LabHP |
| Description | iHP on carbon modelling - LCA |
| HP sub-branch | iHP |
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indirect fluxes?
- life cycle assessment
- google scholar
- LCA of biobased butanol
- carbon negative, carbon neutral
- LCA will help us understand if ^
- butanol will offset conventional production
- you can ignore how much co2 is released from burning butanol, as that's done anyway
- other issues, need land - algae pond
- typically fossil fuel plants are compact, expand vertically
- he'd say if we have time then properly run an LCA only
- but we shouldn't avoid it, run it to a fair degree of robustness
- Kanigi Menon - book
- Scott Mathews - open source LCA textbook
- quantify a co2 footprint
- if you do it in a haphazard manner we'll get questions
- water use, land use can also be considered
- biological processes are harder to control than traditional plants
- current estimate - low TRL technology
- we can save on time by doing just the environmental analysis instead of doing half-ass both economic and environmental
- openLCA, greet, simapro
- flue gas : temperature, nox, sox
- we can start off by ethanol plant, but stick to pure co2
- look at by products,
- environmental tradeoff for organic solvents, they're usually bad for the environment]
- electricity, water consumption compared to
- don't need a robust uncertainty test for now, if we're short of time
- don't get into scenario analysis much either
- compare it with traditional butanol production
- ecoinvent
- can i reuse any inventory items
- scan literature
- us lci
- tuning of light wavelengths?