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Biojet fuel production from oleaginous crop residues: thermoeconomic, life cycle and flight performance analysis

Publicated to: ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT. 244 114534- - 2021-09-15 244(), DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114534

Authors:

Vela-Garcia, Nicolas; Bolonio, David; Garcia-Martinez, Maria-Jesus; Ortega, Marcelo F; Streitwieser, Daniela Almeida; Canoira, Laureano
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Univ Politecn Madrid, ETS Ingenieros Minas & Energia, Dept Energy & Fuels, Rios Rosas 21, Madrid 28003, Spain - Author
Univ San Francisco Quito, Inst Dev Alternat Energies & Mat IDEMA, Dept Chem Engn, Diego Robles S-N, Quito 170901, Ecuador - Author

Abstract

This study assesses an integrated biorefinery model's efficiency for biojet fuel production as Jet A1 blending component through the Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) and Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA) thermochemical routes, employing lignocellulosic biomass from oleaginous crops. The ATJ process involved cellulosic ethanol production through steam explosion hydrolysis, simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation. The anhydrous ethanol was sequentially dehydrated, oligomerized, and hydrotreated. On the other hand, the HEFA process upgraded vegetable oil from residues and fatty acid distillates. The vegetable oil was thermally hydrolyzed, decarboxylated and hydrotreated. The models were simulated in AspenPlus (R) v.11, achieving a specific biojet fuel production of 48 wt% for the ATJ and 87 wt% for the HEFA. In both cases, a biojet fuel mixture primarily composed of C9 to C12 isoalkanes was produced. The minimum selling price ranged between 1.01 euro/kg to 1.43 euro/kg. The studied routes were evaluated through exergetic and thermoeconomic analyses for optimizing. The life cycle assessment was carried out in SimaPro (R) v.9.0. The estimated net GHG emissions were 75 gCO2eq/ MJ for the ATJ and 18 gCO2eq/MJ for the HEFA; nevertheless, significant improvements were achieved from byproduct displacement credits. In both cases, the GHG emissions are under those from petroleum-derived Jet A1 production. Finally, the physico-chemical properties fulfilled the ASTM D7566 specifications, and the calculated payload vs range showed a better performance for an intermediate-range flight.
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Keywords

Alcohol-to-jet fuelAlternative jet fuelsBiodiesel productionContinuous countercurrent hydrolysisEntropyEthanol-productionExergy analysisExergy calculationFatty-acid distillateHydroprocessed esters and fatty acidsLignocellulosic biomassPalm kernel oilPhysico-chemical propertiesTechnoeconomic assessmentVegetable-oil

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 3/138, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Mechanics. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.41, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-24, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 20
  • Scopus: 28
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-24:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 125.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 123 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 23.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/92836/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 34
  • Downloads: 71
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Ecuador.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Vela-Garcia, N) and Last Author (CANOIRA LOPEZ, JOSE LAUREANO).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been BOLONIO MARTIN, DAVID.

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