Recently there is an increasing interest in lignocellulosic biorefineries because of the rise in petroleum costs, the need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the motivation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. In the near future, integrated forest biorefineries (IFBR) based on conventional forest industries could become the most important lignocellulosic biorefineries due to its current capital infrastructure for converting renewable resources on a sustainable basis for over a century and help increase the renenue and products streams to improve their profitability. Here we present a comprehensive process model of the whole IFBR that will help analyze the overall performance including the economic and environmental factors.
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