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Biorefinery Alternatives

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Abstract

This chapter presents a brief review of biorefinery definitions and concepts. The state of the art of biochemical and thermochemical routes to produce biofuels and bio-based chemicals is discussed, showing the current level of the available technologies. The major pieces of equipment commonly used in the first- and second-generation project designs are also covered. A historical background on the development of process simulation environments is presented in order to give some insights into process modeling and simulation. First- and second-generation biorefinery simulations are shown at the end of the chapter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    COM/DCOM—Component Object Model/Distributed Component Object Model.

  2. 2.

    CORBA—Common Object Request Broker Architecture.

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    OpenMP—Open Multiprocessing.

  4. 4.

    PVM—Parallel Virtual Machine.

  5. 5.

    MPI—Message Passing Interface.

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