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Data for: Techno-economic and environmental assessment of converting mixed prairie to renewable natural gas with co-product hydroxycinnamic acid, Iowa, USA, 2022-2023

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posted on 2025-12-12, 17:32 authored by Katherine Wild, Elmin Rahic, Lisa Schulte, Mark Mba Wright
<p dir="ltr">This dataset compiles model outputs, parameter sets, and documentation supporting a techno‑economic analysis (TEA) and life‑cycle assessment (LCA) of co‑digesting beef cattle manure with pretreated mixed prairie biomass to produce renewable natural gas (RNG), with hydroxycinnamic acids (HCA) and digestate‑derived biochar co‑products. It accompanies the study by Katherine Wild, Elmin Rahic, Lisa A Schulte Moore, and Mark Mba Wright "Techno-economic and environmental assessment of converting mixed prairie to renewable natural gas with co-product hydroxycinnamic acid," in Biofuels, Bioproducts, & Biorefining, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.2710). The integrated simulation and assessment framework quantifies process performance, economics, and greenhouse‑gas intensity across five scenarios representing combinations of alkaline‑ethanol pretreatment for HCA extraction, liquid recirculation fractions, and biochar addition. This data collection includes: stream‑level mass flow/composition tables for each scenario; RNG, biochar, and HCA annual production summaries; literature‑based methane/biogas yield benchmarks; equipment‑level capital costs; TEA assumptions; emission‑factor inventories and displacement credits; and full sensitivity/uncertainty matrices for MFSP and GWP.</p>

Funding

Consortium for Cultivating Human And Naturally reGenerative Enterprises (C-CHANGE)

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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Integrated Modeling of Climate Resilient Biorefineries and Landscapes (CREBL) for a Sustainable Bioeconomy

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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History

Data contact name

Mba Wright, Mark

Data contact email

markmw@iastate.edu

Publisher

Environmental Data Initiative

Temporal Extent Start Date

2022-01-01

Temporal Extent End Date

2023-12-31

Theme

  • Non-geospatial

Geographic Coverage

Geographic location - description

The state of Iowa.

ISO Topic Category

  • farming
  • environment
  • economy

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

environmental assessment; natural gas; coproducts; coumaric acids; Iowa; models; beef cattle; cattle manure; biomass; biochar; biorefining; liquids; mass flow; methane; biogas; uncertainty

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:20 - National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Wild, K., E. Rahic, L.A. Schulte Moore, and M. Mba Wright. 2025. Data for: Techno-economic and environmental assessment of converting mixed prairie to renewable natural gas with co-product hydroxycinnamic acid, Iowa, USA, 2022-2023. ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/81e3f4e5dffe2cb1c78008946109c81f (Accessed 2025-12-09).