Issue 4, 2022

Accelerating manufacturing for biomass conversion via integrated process and bench digitalization: a perspective

Abstract

We present a perspective for accelerating biomass manufacturing via digitalization. We summarize the challenges for manufacturing and identify areas where digitalization can help. A profound potential in using lignocellulosic biomass and renewable feedstocks, in general, is to produce new molecules and products with unmatched properties that have no analog in traditional refineries. Discovering such performance-advantaged molecules and the paths and processes to make them rapidly and systematically can transform manufacturing practices. We discuss retrosynthetic approaches, text mining, natural language processing, and modern machine learning methods to enable digitalization. Laboratory and multiscale computation automation via active learning are crucial to complement existing literature and expedite discovery and valuable data collection without a human in the loop. Such data can help process simulation and optimization select the most promising processes and molecules according to economic, environmental, and societal metrics. We propose the close integration between bench and process scale models and data to exploit the low dimensionality of the data and transform the manufacturing for renewable feedstocks.

Graphical abstract: Accelerating manufacturing for biomass conversion via integrated process and bench digitalization: a perspective

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
15 Dec. 2021
Accepted
25 Janv. 2022
First published
25 Janv. 2022

React. Chem. Eng., 2022,7, 813-832

Author version available

Accelerating manufacturing for biomass conversion via integrated process and bench digitalization: a perspective

S. P. Batchu, B. Hernandez, A. Malhotra, H. Fang, M. Ierapetritou and D. G. Vlachos, React. Chem. Eng., 2022, 7, 813 DOI: 10.1039/D1RE00560J

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