Bioethanol Production from Spent Sugar Beet Pulp—Process Modeling and Cost Analysis

Global economic development has led to the widespread use of fossil fuels, and their extensive resulted in increased environmental pollution. As a result, significantly more attention is being paid issues alternative renewable energy sources. Bioethanol production from agro-industrial byproducts, residues, wastes one example sustainable production. This research aims develop process cost model bioethanol spent sugar beet pulp. The was developed using SuperPro Designer® v.11 (Intelligen Inc., Scotch Plains, NJ, USA) software, determines capital costs for bioethanol-producing plant processing about 17,000 tons pulp per year. In addition, predicts indicators analyzed biotechnological process, share major components costs, compares different scenarios co-products. Based on obtained results, proposed viable represents base case further bioprocess development.