2019 Volume 15 Issue 4 Pages 325-331
In evaluating technologies and systems, techno-economic analysis as well as life cycle assessment is of importance. In this paper, manufacturing cost, profit and business profitability evaluation are briefly introduced as an example of techno-economic analysis, and recent trends in techno-economic analysis in academic papers are showed by a bibliometric analysis of energy related technologies. In addition, a techno-economic analysis when introducing to overseas a novel system for sugar, ethanol and electricity production from high-yielding sugarcane was taken up as a case study, and various issues based on examples are introduced.
