Industrial Crops and Products, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 204, P. 117317 - 117317
Published: Aug. 25, 2023
Language: Английский
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(7), P. 2732 - 2745
Published: Feb. 9, 2025
Biorefineries are pivotal in advancing sustainability, yet most studies remain confined to laboratory scales, lacking comprehensive industrial-level analyses. In this work, the experiments scaled up design and assess techno-economic environmental implications of a multiproduct biorefinery system producing antioxidant extracts, lignin, bioethanol from exhausted olive pomace, residual biomass oil extraction. Using process simulation life cycle assessment, five scenarios were evaluated, varying electricity sources (national mix, solar, wind, or biomass) heat cooling (fossil natural gas synthetic capture CO2 electrolytic hydrogen), with one scenario incorporating carbon storage (CCS) system. The CCS showed highest overall costs, 2.5 times higher than base (27.74 vs 10.99 $/functional unit), primarily due additional infrastructure energy-intensive processes associated utilization storage. Despite it achieved even negative footprint (−1.05 kg CO2eq per functional unit cradle-to-gate) reduced impacts on ecosystem quality, resources, human health. However, specific like noncarcinogenic carcinogenic effects (40% 60%) ecotoxicity (up 70%) worsened. Notwithstanding economic barriers challenges, which can be alleviated by selling credits tailored policies strategic decisions, these findings underscore potential integrating into schemes as promising pathway enhance sustainability.
Language: Английский
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Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 358, P. 120813 - 120813
Published: April 11, 2024
The application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to biorefineries is a necessary step estimate their environmental sustainability. This review explores contemporary LCA biorefinery studies, across different feedstock categories, understand approaches in dealing with key methodological decisions which arise, including system boundaries, consequential or attributional approach, allocation, inventory data, land use changes, product end-of-life (EOL), biogenic carbon storage, impact and uncertainty analysis. From an initial collection 81 59 were included within the final analysis, comprising 22 studies involved dedicated feedstocks, 34 residue feedstocks (including by-products wastes), further 3 multiple derived from both secondary sources. Many do not provide comprehensive assessment, often lacking detail on taken, omitting parts value chain, using generic data without analyses, important categories. Only 28% some level primary while 39% did undertake sensitivity Just 8% related dLUC iLUC, only 14% considering end scope. authors recommend more transparency LCA, justification decisions. A full value-chain approach should be adopted, fully assess burdens opportunities for storage. We also propose prospective taking into account future renewable energy sources, increasing circularity bio-based chains.
Language: Английский
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Energy Conversion and Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 323, P. 119213 - 119213
Published: Nov. 6, 2024
Language: Английский
Citations
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Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 470, P. 143248 - 143248
Published: July 24, 2024
Language: Английский
Citations
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Discover Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 6(1)
Published: April 8, 2025
Language: Английский
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Food and Bioproducts Processing, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Sept. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8
Published: Feb. 5, 2024
Bread waste (BW) poses a significant environmental and economic challenge in the United Kingdom (UK), where an estimated 20 million slices of bread are wasted daily. BW contains polysaccharides with great potential for its valorization into building block chemicals. While holds tremendous promise, it is emerging field low technology readiness levels (TRLs), necessitating careful consideration sustainability commercial-scale utilization. This review offers comprehensive assessment aspects valorization, encompassing economic, environmental, social factors. The primary objective this article to enhance our understanding benefits challenges associated approach. Incorporating circular bioeconomy principles crucial addressing global issues stemming from food degradation. investigates role BW-based biorefineries promoting concept. study concludes by discussing opportunities reduction, along proposing strategies tackle these challenges.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Chemistry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12
Published: July 30, 2024
The urgent need for mitigating climate change necessitates a transformative shift in energy production and consumption paradigms. Amidst this challenge, bioenergy emerges as pivotal contributor to the global transition, offering diverse array of solid, liquid, gaseous fuels derived from biomass. This mini review delves into unique potential innovations, particularly renewable diesel, bio jet fuel, ethanol, reduce greenhouse gas emissions transform various industries. article highlights critical technological advancements, supportive policies, cross-sector collaboration essential sustainable transition. Specific challenges such ensuring consistent biomass feedstock supply, decentralizing processing units, navigating complex regulatory frameworks are examined. Innovative solutions like decentralized enhanced logistics discussed pathways overcome these barriers. provides specific recommendations near-term policies strategies support facilities, showcasing bioenergy’s role achieving future.
Language: Английский
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Fermentation, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 9(7), P. 602 - 602
Published: June 27, 2023
As a response to the environmental and societal issues that emanate from high reliance on fossil fuels, world is now transitioning toward circular bioeconomy. Acidogenic biohydrogen production envisaged as clean fuel of future due its non-polluting features affordability. The major encumbrance for industrialization this process accumulation metabolic inhibitors (volatile fatty acids (VFAs)), which lower H2 yields. This review discusses novel methods can be adopted valorize acidogenic VFAs via “cascade microbial biorefinery-based” approach enables economically feasible it leads concomitant diverse high-value-added products. work also elucidates key setpoint parameters governing recovery during process. It further explores recent advances in use biorefineries. Finally, paper provides some recommendations might help develop biorefineries future. Studies focusing tailored towards valorization/beneficiation are very scarce literature. aims provide new insights into biorefinery-based processes involving substrates.
Language: Английский
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Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 381 - 395
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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