Industry expectations regarding the transition toward a biobased economy

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Vandermeulen ◽  
Marijke Van der Steen ◽  
Christian V. Stevens ◽  
Guido Van Huylenbroeck
Keyword(s):  
Biobased Economy

scholarly journals BIOBASED ECONOMY AVAILABLE BIOMASS RESOURCES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
Zdenek Wegscheider ◽  
Mojmir Sabolovic
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Waste Biomass ◽  
Biobased Materials ◽  
Biobased Economy

During the past two decades academia, industry and government have aimed more and more their attention to the phenomenon of a biobased economy providing society with non‐food biobased products. Now developing are biomass industries that make an array of commercial products, including fuels, electricity, chemicals, adhesives, lubricants and building materials, as well as new clothing fibers and plastics. Instead of fossil resources “green” biobased economy uses renewable grown or waste biomass. The lead supplying role to the biobased economy is held by a sector of agriculture, above all the crop production. In this manner an effective limitation of food surplus may occur in the EU market and enhance a value added to all vertical industry. Industrial‐scale production of biobased materials in time with consumers’ changing attitudes towards sustainable economic and social development may affect a wide array of consequences which nowadays can be tediously estimated. Food safety along with food security is one of the hottest issues especially in the United States, knowing that human population and biobased economy compete in using and processing a broad range of agricultural crops. An energy analysis aspect of this caloric relationship among agricultural sector on the supply side and human population and biobased economy on the other – demand side is assumed to represent the principal aim of this study. Consequently, there is the need to evaluate whether a quantity of Czech Crop Output Total is possible to nourish the Czech population and whether there is an available caloric surplus suitable as a biomass resource for biobased economy which is actually taking root.

scholarly journals Can Multiple Uses of Biomass Limit the Feedstock Availability for Future Biogas Production? An Overview of Biogas Feedstocks and Their Alternative Uses

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2747
Author(s):  
Dieu Linh Hoang ◽  
Chris Davis ◽  
Henri C. Moll ◽  
Sanderine Nonhebel
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Biogas Production ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Machine Learning Technique ◽  
Learning Technique ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
Multiple Uses ◽  
Feedstock Availability ◽  
Biomass Byproducts ◽  
Biobased Economy

Biogas is expected to contribute 10% of the total renewable energy use in Europe in 2030. This expectation largely depends on the use of several biomass byproducts and wastes as feedstocks. However, the current development of a biobased economy requires biomass sources for multiple purposes. If alternative applications also use biogas feedstocks, it becomes doubtful whether they will be available for biogas production. To explore this issue, this paper aims to provide an overview of potential alternative uses of different biogas feedstocks being researched in literature. We conducted a literature review using the machine learning technique “co-occurrence analysis of terms”. This technique reads thousands of abstracts from literature and records when pairs of biogas feedstock-application are co-mentioned. These pairs are assumed to represent the use of a feedstock for an application. We reviewed 109 biogas feedstocks and 217 biomass applications, revealing 1053 connections between them in nearly 55,000 scientific articles. Our results provide two insights. First, a large share of the biomass streams presently considered in the biogas estimates have many alternative uses, which likely limit their contribution to future biogas production. Second, there are streams not being considered in present estimates for biogas production although they have the proper characteristics.

scholarly journals Biobased Economy – Sustainable Use of Agricultural Resources

10.5772/19989 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kulshreshtha ◽  
B. G. ◽  
T. T. ◽  
J. A. ◽  
X. P. C. Verge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Agricultural Resources ◽  
Biobased Economy

scholarly journals Towards the Green Synthesis of Furfuryl Alcohol in A One-Pot System from Xylose: A Review

Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1101
Author(s):  
Gerardo Gómez Millán ◽  
Herbert Sixta
Keyword(s):  
Green Synthesis ◽  
Furfuryl Alcohol ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Complex Matrix ◽  
One Pot ◽  
Catalytic Systems ◽  
Heterogeneous Catalytic ◽  
Production Concept ◽  
Biobased Economy

In the pursuit of establishing a sustainable biobased economy, valorization of lignocellulosic biomass is increasing its value as a feedstock. Nevertheless, to achieve the integrated biorefinery paradigm, the selective fractionation of its complex matrix to its single constituents must be complete. This review presents and examines the novel catalytic pathways to form furfuryl alcohol (FuOH) from xylose in a one-pot system. This production concept takes on chemical, thermochemical and biochemical transformations or a combination of them. Still, the bulk of the research is targeted to develop heterogeneous catalytic systems to synthesize FuOH from furfural and xylose. The present review includes an overview of the economic aspects to produce this platform chemical in an industrial manner. In the last section of this review, an outlook and summary of catalytic processes to produce FuOH are highlighted.

scholarly journals Sustainability Transition towards a Biobased Economy: Defining, Measuring and Assessing

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piergiuseppe Morone
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Logical Framework ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
Sustainability Transition ◽  
Biobased Economy

This Special Issue proposes an array of 11 key papers aimed at investigating the complex and multifaceted nature of the biobased economy, focusing both on a conceptual understanding of the transition and on the measurement issues associated to it. More specifically, collected papers can be broadly divided in two groups: (1) those aiming at adding to our understanding of the transition process towards a sustainable biobased economy; and (2) those aiming at adding to the definition and measurement of the emerging sustainable biobased economy. In the guest editor view, papers collected in this Special Issue offer valuable and complementary insights to our understanding of the ongoing transition towards a biobased economy, providing a logical framework to understand the transitions, as well as an overview of existing tools to assess and measure it. Ideally, policy makers will benefit from the papers included in this Special Issue and, hopefully, it will contribute to make a further step to the much-needed transition towards sustainability.

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