Abstract
Growing biofuel mandates pose considerable challenges to the infrastructure needed across all stages of the supply chain − from crop production, feedstock harvesting, storage, transportation, and processing to biofuel distribution and use. This chapter focuses on the biofuel transportation and distribution network infrastructure, using Illinois as a case study. Building on an optimal land use allocation model for feedstock production, a mathematical programming model is used to determine optimal locations and capacities of biorefineries, delivery of bioenergy crops to biorefineries, and processing and distribution of ethanol and co-products (DDGS). The model aims to minimize total system costs in a multiyear planning horizon for the period of 2007–2022. Certain locations may be more suitable for corn and corn stover-based ethanol plants, others more for producing ethanol using perennial grasses (miscanthus)
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Notes
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Note that the color of each county indicates the total amount of biomass production, not the density.
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The number of refineries is actually the number of counties having at least one refinery. Some counties have multiple refineries, such as Peoria and Tazewell.
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Kang, S., Önal, H., Ouyang, Y., Scheffran, J., Tursun, Ü.D. (2010). Optimizing the Biofuels Infrastructure: Transportation Networks and Biorefinery Locations in Illinois. In: Khanna, M., Scheffran, J., Zilberman, D. (eds) Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 33. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0369-3_10
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