Lignocellulosic Waste Treatment in Biorefinery Concept: Challenges and Opportunities

Krátký, Lukáš

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-8682-5_3

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“…Nowadays, the sustainability and economic feasibility of waste processing technologies are viewed in the context of applying the biorefinery concept. Designing technology in the biorefinery concept means its process and technical setup must be adequately chosen to ensure its economic feasibility, environmental friendliness, and sustainability [28]. The biorefinery's design must consider the cost of production in conjunction with the cost of sales and the market demand for the targeted commodities.…”

Section: Biochemical Co 2 -To-x Transformation Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Sustainability in Carbon Capture and Use Strategies for V4 Countries via Biochemical Pathways: A Review

Krátký,

Ledakowicz,

Slezak

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The world is moving towards decarbonization policies in the energy and industrial sectors to bring down carbon dioxide release and reach net zero emissions. Technologies to capture CO2 and use it as a feedstock to produce CO2-based chemicals and biofuels via chemical or biochemical conversion pathways can potentially reduce the amount of CO2 released. The paper serves the innovative scientific knowledge for CO2 transformation via a biochemical pathway to microalgal biomass with its subsequent treatment to biofuels and bioproducts assuming milder climatic conditions (Central or Eastern Europe, Visegrad countries or climatically related world regions). The recent trends were critically reviewed for microalgal biorefinery to reach the sustainability of microalgal-based chemicals with added value, digestion, hydrothermal liquefaction, pyrolysis, and gasification of microalgal residues. Knowledge-based chemical process engineering analysis, systematic data synthesis, and critical technical evaluation of available life cycle assessment studies evaluated the sustainability of microalgal biorefinery pathways. The research showed that biological CO2 fixation using water, seawater or wastewater to produce third-generation biomass is a promising alternative for bioethanol production via pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, digestion, and distillation, and can be realized on a large scale in an economically viable and environmentally sound manner. Its best economically promising and sustainable pathway is perceived in producing microalgal-based nutraceuticals, bioactive medical products, and food products such as proteins, pigments, and vitamins. Machine learning methods for data mining, process control, process optimization, and geometrical configuration of reactors and bioreactors are the crucial research needs and challenges to implementing microalgal biorefinery in an operational environment.

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Section: Biochemical Co 2 -To-x Transformation Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%