Using BPM to improve sustainability in biomass generation
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Authors | Gollotta, Bruno, Kolelas. Vidrene, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo, Anosike, Anthony and Kumar, Vikas |
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Abstract | Biomass represents approximately 10% of the energy sources in the world. The most common use of biomass for energy is direct combustion, gasification, carbonization and pyrolysis. In this perspective, torrefaction emerges as a thermal biomass pre-treatment method that has an ability to reduce the major limitations of biomass, such as heterogeneity and lower energy density. However, one of the outputs from the torrefaction process is a pyrolysis condensate (tar). Tar is brown or black liquid composed of hydrocarbons which can cause clogging and fouling of pipes, heat exchangers or particulate filters. This paper provides a study performed in a biomass power generation company that was producing an excess of tar. In order to provide a solution to the excess tar generated, a framework to implement sustainability business processes using the Business Process Management (BPM) approach was used. The study found two solutions for the issue (short- term and long-term scenarios) using tools to improve the process management by focusing on sustainability. |
Biomass represents approximately 10% of the energy sources in the world. The most common use of biomass for energy is direct combustion, gasification, carbonization and pyrolysis. In this perspective, torrefaction emerges as a thermal biomass pre-treatment method that has an ability to reduce the major | |
Keywords | Business process management; Sustainability; Renewable energy; Torrefaction |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | Proceedings of the 2017 International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) |
Publisher | Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) Society |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621797 |
hdl:10545/621797 | |
ISBN | 9780985549770 |
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Publication dates | Jul 2017 |
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Deposited | 02 Aug 2017, 09:05 |
Contributors | University of Derby and University of the West of England |
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