Techno-economic analysis of lactic acid production from methanolJerina, Ana (Avtor) Moškon, Miha (Mentor) Virant, David (Komentor) techno-economic analysisbioprocess simulationBioSTEAMIn this work, we employ BioSTEAM to perform techno-economic analysis of lactic acid production with methanol as feedstock. We modify the feedstock of a system from the Biorefineries library, which incorporates esterification as a downstream process. In another system, we explore how the ion exchange downstream process adapts to large-scale production. We evaluate minimal product selling prices and net present values of both systems and achieve promising results for the esterification example with a minimal product selling price between 1.0 and 1.4 USD per kilogram and net present value between 100 and 850 million USD.20252025-10-21 09:50:02Magistrsko delo/naloga175191VisID: 37738COBISS_ID: 255616771sl