Techno-economic and uncertainty analysis of fast pyrolysis and gasification for biofuel production

his thesis consists of uncertainty and techno-economic studies of two different biofuels production pathways (catalytic pyrolysis and gasification). The objective of this paper is to obtain a side-by-side techno-economic comparison of in situ and ex situ catalytic pyrolysis, and gasification state-of-technology and target scenarios that addresses both sensitivity and uncertainty analysis in the comparison of these four technologies.;Two journal papers have been published in Bioresource Technology and Energy Technology as the result of this study: "Techno-economic and uncertainty analysis of in situ and ex situ fast pyrolysis for biofuel production" and "Understanding uncertainty of transportation fuel production via biomass gasification and mixed alcohol synthesis".;Uncertainty analysis shows that in situ catalytic pyrolysis is expected to have a similar minimum fuel-selling price (MFSP) with ex situ catalytic pyrolysis,...