Data for: Techno-economic and environmental assessment of converting mixed prairie to renewable natural gas with co-product hydroxycinnamic acid, Iowa, USA, 2022-2023
posted on 2025-12-12, 17:32authored byKatherine 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)
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).