Techno-economic and profitability analysis of food waste biorefineries at European level

Cristóbal, Jorge; Caldeira, Carla; Corrado, Sara; Sala, Serenella

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2018.03.016

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“…The method used to transfer the waste to the biorefineries depends on the total solid content of the waste. Liquid waste can be transferred in pipes and dried litter can be scraped or loaded as a solid and transported by vehicles …”

Section: Waste Management Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Valorization of Food and Agricultural Waste: A Step towards Greener Future

Rao¹,

Rathod²

2018

The Chemical Record

101

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With the progress in technology and population, an enormous amount of agricultural and food waste is being generated throughout the world. In the past, food and agro‐wastes were either burnt off or allowed to rot in fields, but this can be potentially hazardous to the environment. Therefore, approaches with respect to their utilization, reuse, and processing need to be developed to enable the sustainable utilization of feedstock and reduce pollution. Agricultural wastes mainly comprise of cellulosic fibres possessing high fixed carbon content and multifunctional groups. Agricultural waste shows considerable applicability due to its high strength, environmentally benign nature, low cost, and ease of availability and reusability. All these characteristics have been researched upon in the past, in the sector of waste water management for the removal of heavy metals and dyes. Similarly, a variety of food and agro‐waste has been adopted as sources for new drug leads or important phytochemicals with different therapeutic benefits. Agro‐waste can also be employed for enzyme immobilization after proper modification. Apart from this waste cooking oil comes under the category of food waste and can be processed to prepare alternate energy source such as biodiesel. This personal account summarizes the development, processing, and application of food and agro‐waste in the production of biodiesel, environmental remediation, curative medicine, and in the development of biocatalysts, by researchers in our laboratory.

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Section: Waste Management Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Valorization of Food and Agricultural Waste: A Step towards Greener Future

Rao¹,

Rathod²

2018

The Chemical Record

101

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“…influence of humidity on the calorific value of the FW) or material (e.g. specific waste flows coming from food manufacturing that could be upcycled) (Cristobal et al, 2018). Furthermore, having a detailed picture of FW generation per product or product groups may support the prioritisation of prevention or valorisation interventions (De Laurentiis et al, 2018).…”

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Food waste accounting methodologies: Challenges, opportunities, and further advancements

Corrado

Caldeira

Eriksson

et al. 2019

Global Food Security

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About one third of the food produced globally is wasted along the food chain, representing a burden for the environment and an inefficiency of the food system. Tackling food waste is a priority on the global political agenda to guarantee food security. Defining a methodology for food waste quantification is key to monitoring progress towards the achievement of reduction targets. This paper summarises the outcomes of a workshop on food waste accounting co-organised by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and Directorate-General on Health and Food Safety with the aim of stimulating harmonisation of methodologies, identifying challenges, opportunities, and further advancement for food waste accounting. The paper presents methodological aspects, e.g. system boundaries, reliability of data, accounting of water flows, to ensure better support to food waste policy design and interventions. It addresses all the actors of the food supply chain, governments, and research institutions.

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“…The feasibility of the new biorefinery was estimated taking into consideration the cost of manufacturing (COM) and the final product value. The COM was calculated considering the fixed capital investment (FCI), cost of operational labour (C ol ) and cost of utilities (C ut ) by applying the equation COM=0.28*FCI+2.73*Col+1.23*Cut (Attard et al, 2016;Cristóbal et al, 2018) (see SI).…”

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Development of a tomato pomace biorefinery based on a CO2-supercritical extraction process for the production of a high value lycopene product, bioenergy and digestate

Scaglia

D’Incecco

Squillace

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Tomato peels and seeds (TP) are the most abundant canning industry waste actually used to produce biogas. TP is rich in lycopene (lyc) and represent a more sustainable feedstock than tomato fruits actually employed. It was therefore chosen as feedstock together with supercritical CO 2 extraction (SFE-CO 2) technology to develop a TP-SFE-CO 2 biorefinery, topic scarcely investigated. Two TP were tested and although TP-SFE-CO 2 parameters were the same, lyc recoveries depended by peel structure changes occurred during pre-SFE-CO 2 drying step. Higher moisture (102.7 g kg-1 wet weight) permitted 97 % lyc recovery and gave a water-in-oil emulsion as extract. Mass balance confirmed that lyc isomerisation did not cause lyc losses. After a significant oil extraction, exhaust TP showed a biodegradability 64% higher than the raw one, attributable to fibre structure disruption. The biorefinery proposed (SFE_CO 2 +anaerobic digestion) determined positive economic revenue (+787.9 € t-1 TP) on the contrary of the actual TP management.

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Techno-economic and profitability analysis of food waste biorefineries at European level

Cited by 180 publications

References 28 publications

Valorization of Food and Agricultural Waste: A Step towards Greener Future

Valorization of Food and Agricultural Waste: A Step towards Greener Future

Food waste accounting methodologies: Challenges, opportunities, and further advancements

Development of a tomato pomace biorefinery based on a CO2-supercritical extraction process for the production of a high value lycopene product, bioenergy and digestate

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