It has been shown that biomass refinery (biorefinery) with Zero Emissions perspective could convert agricultural wastes into valueadded chemicals and materials. Agricultural and plantations wastes would become as main resources for biorefinery without soil degradation and needs of additional land. Biorefinery non-farm production cycle is crucial for job generation and poverty elimination in rur...

In this paper, a biorefinery complex in Thailand was assessed vis-à-vis sustainability. The complex studied includes plantations of sugarcane and a biorefinery system composed of several units including, a sugar mill, power plant, ethanol factory and fertilizer plant. The assessment aimed at evaluating the environmental and socio-economic implications relating to molasses-based ethanol producti...

BACKGROUND Animal wastes are of particular environmental concern due to greenhouse gases emissions, odor problem, and potential water contamination. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an effective and widely used technology to treat them for bioenergy production. However, the sustainability of AD is compromised by two by-products of the nutrient-rich liquid digestate and the fiber-rich solid digestate...

J-FOR Journal of Science & Technology for Forest Products and Processes: VOL.1, NO.3, 2011 48 In recent years, the forest biorefinery has been identified and proposed as an opportunity for pulp and paper mills to improve their profitability. The implementation of biorefinery units will have an impact on the energy requirements of the receptor mill, and the energy consumption of the biorefinery ...

BACKGROUND Sugarcane is the most efficient crop for production of (1G) ethanol. Additionally, sugarcane bagasse can be used to produce (2G) ethanol. However, the manufacture of 2G ethanol in large scale is not a consolidated process yet. Thus, a detailed economic analysis, based on consistent simulations of the process, is worthwhile. Moreover, both ethanol and electric energy markets have been...

Biorefineries combine necessary technologies between biogenic raw material and the industrial intermediates and final products. The paper represents the providing code-defined basic substances (via fractionation for the development of industrially relevant product family trees). The main focus is directed on precursor-containing biomass with preference of the carbohydrate line, in particulary o...

The biorefinery is generally recognized as a promising solution to transform the forestry industry. From a company perspective, at least two important decision-making elements need to be addressed: what is the best biorefinery configuration in terms of product/process portfolio, supply-chain network, capacity and manufacturing flexibility, and, for a defined biorefinery configuration, what supp...

HIS PAPER REPORTS the application of ESF (College of Environmental Science and Forestry) Biorefinery concepts and technology in New York State industry. This is a planned application linking at least three industrial companies to reduce the time to practice. A wood-based biorefinery is being erected in New York. Identifying the strengths of the participating companies and required competencies ...

This paper presents an overview of certain emerging biorefinery process options, and highlights the complex and ambiguous decision-making challenges that mills will face who would like to consider implementing the biorefinery. While most biorefinery developments have focused on process technologies, it is critical a) to first define the specific products that the mill should seek to produce con...

A simple biofuel production system can be first examined for its policy 8 compliance in terms of GHG emission reduction target relative to fossil-based 9 counterparts. More integrated and optimised biorefinery systems with polygeneration 10 can then be evolved with the aid of graphical analysis of marginal emission savings 11 vs. additional economic margins. This bottom-up approach helps to ach...