Techno-Economic Analysis of Integrating Soybean Biorefinery Products into Corn-Based Ethanol Fermentation Operations

With the development of agricultural biorefineries and bioprocessing operations, understanding economic efficiencies environmental impacts for these have gradually become popular deployment industrial processes. The corn-based ethanol soybean oil refining industries been examined extensively over years, especially details processing technologies, including materials, reaction controls, equipment, applications. study focused on examining production efficiency changes integrating products from enzyme-assisted aqueous extraction (EAEP) soybeans into fermentation processing. Using SuperPro Designer to simulate at either 40 million gallons per year (MGY) or 120 MGY, with separation no removal, we found that indeed soy corn may be slightly more expensive in terms costs, but returns justify this integration due substantially greater quantities ethanol, distillers oil, dried grains solubles being produced.