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标题：Feasibility of an Adaptable Biorefinery Platform: Addressing the Delivery Scale Dilemma under Drought Risk
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作者：Farmer, Michael C. ; Benson, Aaron ; Liu, Xiaolan 等
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2014
页码：57-71
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：Conversion of biomass to electricity is often not economically feasible as a result of large transportation costs and low output prices. We build a model of an adaptable biorefinery situated at an agri-processing facility that already has biomass on-site and consider the optimal scale of the plant to achieve a price premium by selling peaking power given uncertain biomass deliveries year over year as a result of climatic variability. We find that, for conservative electricity prices, a plant situated near cotton gins in Texas could operate with positive expected net revenue while converting on average only 38% of available biomass for peak electricity prices.
关键词：biomass;biorefinery;drought