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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01 The student, Emily Lin, accepted the attached license on 2024-07-17 at 12:36. The student, Emily Lin, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2024-07-17 at 13:04. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2024-07-17 at 16:01. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21114 on 2025-02-04 at 21:25:56 Miscanthus is a perennial grass and has attracted great research interests as a promising biofuel and bioproduct feedstock. To project the impacts of miscanthus production on an ecosystem and the sustainability of the generated biofuels and bioproducts, robust and spatially explicit evaluation of the entire field-to-biorefinery value chain is required. The overarching goal of this work is to determine the economic and environmental sustainability of biorefineries with miscanthus as the feedstock. Using an ethanol biorefinery as an example, we leveraged the ecosystem model DayCent and the biorefinery simulation tool BioSTEAM for integrated life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA). We quantified global warming potential (GWP) and cost of the produced ethanol with location-specific parameters (e.g., climate and soil conditions) across the rain-fed U.S. Our results indicated that miscanthus yield and soil organic carbon change are the main drivers of the sustainability of miscanthus-derived biofuels and the cost of the biofuel is dependent on the feedstock yield and economic parameters of the state in which it is located. 2024-08 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125831 Copyright 2024 Emily Lin Economic and environmental evaluation of miscanthus sustainability as a bioenergy feedstock Lin, Emily Paige 2024-07-17 Guest, Jeremy S Biofuel Bioenergy Miscanthus Life Cycle Assessment Techno-economic Analysis eng Civil & Environmental Eng Environ Engr in Civil Engr University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S. Thesis