TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from starch, glucose, or high-fructose corn syrup: techno-economic analysis
AU - Dessbesell, Luana
AU - Souzanchi, Sadra
AU - Venkateswara Rao, Kasanneni Tirumala
AU - Carrillo, Alejandro Alarcon
AU - Bekker, Devon
AU - Hall, Kristen Amanda
AU - Lawrence, Katherine Mary
AU - Tait, Carolyn Lindsay Judge
AU - Xu, Chunbao
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge financial support from NSERC Discovery Grants and funding from BioFuelNet Canada, a Network of Centres of Excellence. One of the authors (CX) also gratefully acknowledges the funding from the NSERC/ FPInnovations Industrial Research Chair program and the ORF-RE Program in Forest Biorefinery. One of the authors (LD) also gratefully acknowledges Brazil Science without Borders/CNPq Graduate Scholarship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of a low-cost and high-efficiency technology for the production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from starch, glucose, or high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). With the design presented here, it is viable to convert starch to glucose through enzymatic hydrolysis followed by catalytic dehydration of glucose with niobium phosphate, an innovative low-cost catalyst, to produce 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF). The HMF produced is then converted into FDCA via air oxidation over a cobalt-manganese mixed oxide catalyst. Three variations of this design are assessed: Scenario 1 starts with starch, and Scenarios 2 and 3 start directly with glucose or HFCS, without the initial starch hydrolysis step. The minimum selling price (MSP) and discounted payback period (PBP) were calculated to investigate the feasibility of the scenarios. A sensitivity analysis was also performed for the key cost drivers, selling price of FDCA, and spent catalysts. All scenarios were feasible; however, the HFCS to FDCA process was the most profitable (MSP 1802 US$/t and a PBP below 5 years). Above all, the feasibility of this technology is mostly affected by variations in recovered catalysts and FDCA selling prices.
AB - This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of a low-cost and high-efficiency technology for the production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from starch, glucose, or high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). With the design presented here, it is viable to convert starch to glucose through enzymatic hydrolysis followed by catalytic dehydration of glucose with niobium phosphate, an innovative low-cost catalyst, to produce 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF). The HMF produced is then converted into FDCA via air oxidation over a cobalt-manganese mixed oxide catalyst. Three variations of this design are assessed: Scenario 1 starts with starch, and Scenarios 2 and 3 start directly with glucose or HFCS, without the initial starch hydrolysis step. The minimum selling price (MSP) and discounted payback period (PBP) were calculated to investigate the feasibility of the scenarios. A sensitivity analysis was also performed for the key cost drivers, selling price of FDCA, and spent catalysts. All scenarios were feasible; however, the HFCS to FDCA process was the most profitable (MSP 1802 US$/t and a PBP below 5 years). Above all, the feasibility of this technology is mostly affected by variations in recovered catalysts and FDCA selling prices.
KW - 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA)
KW - 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF)
KW - glucose
KW - high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
KW - starch
KW - techno-economic analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064734776&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/bbb.2014
DO - 10.1002/bbb.2014
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064734776
SN - 1932-104X
VL - 13
SP - 1234
EP - 1245
JO - Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining: BIOFPR
JF - Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining: BIOFPR
IS - 5
ER -
