Imperial College London
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Professor Nilay Shah OBE FREng

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Process Systems Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6621n.shah

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Jessica Baldock +44 (0)20 7594 5699

 
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Location

 

ACEX 522ACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Samsatli:2015:10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.078,
author = {Samsatli, S and Samsatli, NJ and Shah, N},
doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.078},
journal = {Applied Energy},
pages = {131--160},
title = {BVCM: a comprehensive and flexible toolkit for whole system biomass valuechain analysis and optimisation – mathematical formulation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.078},
volume = {147},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - AbstractThis paper presents the novel MILP formulation of the Biomass Value Chain Model (BVCM), a comprehensive and flexible optimisation toolkit that models a large number of bioenergy system pathways. The model accounts for the economic and environmental impacts associated with the end-to-end elements of a pathway: crop production, conversion technologies, transport, storage, local purchase, import (from abroad), sale and disposal of resources, as well as CO2 sequestration by CCS technologies and forestry. It supports decision-making around optimal use of land, biomass resources and technologies with respect to different objectives, scenarios and constraints. Objectives include minimising cost, maximising profit, minimising GHG emissions, maximising energy/exergy production or any combination of these. These objectives are combined with a number of scenarios (such as including different CO2 prices, different technology and climate scenarios, import scenarios, waste cost scenarios), different credits (e.g. by-product and end-product, CCS and forestry carbon sequestration) and a number of constraints such as minimum levels of energy production and maximum environmental impacts.The toolkit includes an extensive database of different biomass technologies including pretreatment, densification, liquid and gaseous fuel production, heat and power generation (separately or combined, biodedicated or co-fired), waste-to-energy conversion and carbon capture and sequestration. A large number of resources are considered including a variety of bio-resources (e.g. energy crops such as Miscanthus and SRC willow, arable crops such as winter wheat, sugar beet and oilseed rape and short and long rotation forestry), intermediates, products, by-products and wastes.The BVCM is a spatio-temporal model: currently it is configured for the UK using 157 square cells of length 50 km and the planning horizon is from the 2010s to the 2050s, with seasonal variations considered. The framework is
AU  - Samsatli,S
AU  - Samsatli,NJ
AU  - Shah,N
DO  - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.078
EP  - 160
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 0306-2619
SP  - 131
TI  - BVCM: a comprehensive and flexible toolkit for whole system biomass valuechain analysis and optimisation – mathematical formulation
T2  - Applied Energy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.078
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261915001142?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/21701
VL  - 147
ER  -
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