BioSTEAM and BioSTEAM-LCA
Themes: Sustainability
Keywords: Economics, Modeling, Software
Citation
Cortes-Peña, Y., Guest, J. S. Jan. 30, 2020. “BioSTEAM: The Biorefinery Simulation and Techno-Economic Analysis Modules.”
Overview
BioSTEAM is a fast and flexible package for the design, simulation, and techno-economic analysis of biorefineries under uncertainty. BioSTEAM’s framework is built to streamline and automate early-stage technology evaluations and to enable rigorous sensitivity and uncertainty analyses. Complete biorefinery configurations are available at the Bioindustrial-Park GitHub repository, BioSTEAM’s premier repository for biorefinery models and results. The long-term growth and maintenance of BioSTEAM is supported through both community-led development and the research institutions invested in BioSTEAM. Through the open-source and community-lead platform, BioSTEAM aims to foster communication and transparency within the biorefinery research community for an integrated effort to expedite the evaluation of candidate biofuels and bioproducts.
Additionally, an agile life cycle assessment (LCA) platform has been designed to interface with BioSTEAM, BioSTEAM-LCA. This open-source, installable package allows users to perform streamlined LCAs of biorefineries. The focus of BioSTEAM-LCA is to streamline and automate early-stage environmental impact analyses of processes and technologies, and to enable rigorous sensitivity and uncertainty analyses linking process design, performance, economics, and environmental impacts.
Data
BioSTEAM Software Download (60 MB)
Detailed Software Documentation
Bioindustrial-Park: Repository for Biorefinery Model and Results
Related Publications
- BioSTEAM: A Fast and Flexible Platform for the Design, Simulation, and Techno-Economic Analysis of Biorefineries under Uncertainty
- Thermosteam: BioSTEAM’s Premier Thermodynamic Engine
- BioSTEAM-LCA: An Integrated Modeling Framework for Agile Life Cycle Assessment of Biorefineries Under Uncertainty
- Sustainable Lactic Acid Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass
- Renewable Linear Alpha-Olefins by Base-Catalyzed Dehydration of Biologically-Derived Fatty Alcohols
- Sustainable Production of Acrylic Acid via 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid from Lignocellulosic Biomass
- Adsorptive Separation and Recovery of Triacetic Acid Lactone from Fermentation Broth
- Rewiring Yeast Metabolism for Producing 2,3-Butanediol and Two Downstream Applications: Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) and Agricultural Biostimulant Production
- Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Vegetative Oil Extraction Strategies at Integrated Oilcane and Oil-Sorghum Biorefineries
- Evaluation of 1,2-Diacyl-3-Acetyl Triacylglycerol Production in Yarrowia lipolytica
- Implications of Biorefinery Policy Incentives and Location-Specific Economic Parameters for the Financial Viability of Biofuels
- Design of a High-Rate Wastewater Treatment Process for Energy and Water Recovery at Biorefineries
- An End-to-End Pipeline for Succinic Acid Production at an Industrially Relevant Scale Using Issatchenkia orientalis
- Quantifying Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Savings and Abatement Costs with Cellulosic Biofuels