Selection

Subsequently after the generation of idea, it is essential to screen the ideas and do the selection
for bioethanol product. As for this selection, concept screening and scoring are utilized to
screening alternatives. These methods are beneficial in that they permit subjective tasks to be
quantified systematic ally for comparison techniques.

Concept screening is basically a selection medium that utilized to sort out plenty bioethanol
product concept ideas produced for refinement and analysis. As for the concept scoring, it is
utilized as objective methods to first-rate final concept selection. Generally, each criterion is
assigned a relative weight, which shows the teams decision as to its relative position.

Alternatives for bioethanol products concept ideas generated are first generation which is
sugarcane, second generation which is wastepaper and finally third generation which is
microalgae. Overall, it considers 9 criterion in this screening to eradicate some bioethanol product
which may not favorable or not profitable to be manufacture for this particular design project.

Table: Concept screening for some of bioethanol products concept ideas

Criterion Alternatives

First Second generation Third

generation bioethanol generation
bioethanol bioethanol
(Wastepaper)
(Sugarcane) (Microalgae)

1 Raw materials 0 + +

2 Applications + 0 +

3 Hazardous waste production - - 0

4 Annual production metric tons + + +

 5 Facility equipment availability + + 0

6 Mode operations 0 - 0

7 Capital investment - + +

8 Manufacturing time - + +

9 By-products + - -

TOTAL SCORE 1 2 4

RANK 3 2 1

Regarding on Table, microalgae is selected as reference alternative. All criteria for microalgae
are allocated a value of zero meaning same as. The criteria for all others alternatives are
assigned + denoting better than; zero or - ,denoting worse than. Microalgae is rank at first
followed by wastepaper and sugarcane. After that, those with positive scores are continue to the
next phase which is scoring concept in order to be more quantitative. Every criterion is now
allocated a relative weight, which shows the teams decision for bioethanol production.