Imperial College London
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ProfessorBenoitChachuat

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Process Systems Engineering
 
 
 
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609Roderic Hill BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Rodriguez-Vallejo:2021:10.1039/d1se00335f,
author = {Rodriguez-Vallejo, DF and Valente, A and Guillen-Gosalbez, G and Chachuat, B},
doi = {10.1039/d1se00335f},
journal = {Sustainable Energy & Fuels},
pages = {2504--2516},
title = {Economic and life-cycle assessment of OME3-5 as transport fuel: a comparison of production pathways},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1se00335f},
volume = {5},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Reducing the contribution of the transport sector to climate change calls for a transition towards renewable fuels. Polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OMEn) constitute a promising alternative to fossil-based diesel. This article presents a comparative analysis of 17 OME3–5 production pathways, benchmarked against fossil-based diesel under environmental and economic criteria following a life-cycle approach. OME3–5 fuels that are reliant on biomass as feedstock, or use H2 produced from wind- or nuclear-powered electrolysis and CO2 from direct air capture, have the potential to reduce global warming impacts by up to 20%. Nevertheless, such fuels are also found to shift environmental burdens to other impact categories under human health and ecosystems quality due to procurement of raw materials (H2, CO2 and biomass), and their predicted total monetized cost is 1.5–3.6 times that of fossil-based diesel. These results highlight the need for embracing impacts beyond climate change in the environmental assessment of alternative fuels and including negative externalities in their economic assessment.
AU  - Rodriguez-Vallejo,DF
AU  - Valente,A
AU  - Guillen-Gosalbez,G
AU  - Chachuat,B
DO  - 10.1039/d1se00335f
EP  - 2516
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 2398-4902
SP  - 2504
TI  - Economic and life-cycle assessment of OME3-5 as transport fuel: a comparison of production pathways
T2  - Sustainable Energy & Fuels
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1se00335f
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000639249900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/SE/D1SE00335F
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/94182
VL  - 5
ER  -
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