Present status (PS) of integrated bio refineries (IBRs) and sustainable development engineering (SDE) together with editorial of future research (FR) for multi-disciplinary (MD), multi-scales (MSs), multi-plat-forms (MPFs), multi renewable raw materials (MRRMs) feed-stocks (FSs) IBR for SDE

Abstract

SDE is more advanced than Environmental Engineering (EE), the best way to analyze their relations is by using the System Theory (ST) especially the Integrated System Approach (ISA) which from a certain point of view shows EE as a subsystem of SDE with the other most important sub-system being RRMs. From another point of view SDE can be considered a subsystem of Sustainable Development (SD), with the other sub-systems being the other sustainability sub-systems, e.g.: SD-economics; SD-politics; SD-sociology; SD-production; SD-consumption; SD-ethics; etc. IBRs are the most important sub-systems of SDE especially with regards to production from MRRMs. This Editorial Paper (EP) introduces PS IBRs and the future ones with large number of MRRM FSs and larger number MPFs.