(490a) Bioprocessing Waste Paper to Ethanol & Byproducts
AIChE Annual Meeting
2009
2009 Annual Meeting
Sustainable Engineering Forum
Poster Session: Sustainability and Sustainable Biorefineries
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
We present the design of a bio-chemical process to produce ethanol from waste paper. We discuss the philosophical advantages of using waste paper in this way and the technical and economic challenges with the process. The process uses non-isothermal, simultaneous saccharification and fermentation to optimize and maximize ethanol yield. The byproducts include carbon dioxide and electricity (from burning the lignin). Also we show the optimization of distillation and molecular sieve purification steps.