About this Research Topic
As a consequence of industrialization, global urbanization, and economic development, solid waste generation is increasing rapidly, which requires immediate and effective solutions. A number of scientific efforts in response to this challenge were established in order to create new uses for waste materials, which is a key factor for the emerging circular bioeconomy concept. This model will lead to a conversion between dependency on fossil fuels and the continuation of waste materials as a source of renewable raw material for the generation of value added products beside energy like biofuels (such as alcohols and hydrocarbons) or chemicals (like organic acids, furans, polyols, oligosaccharides, polyhydroxyalkanoates etc.), or other bio-products (like phenolic compounds, pigments, fertilizers etc.).
In response to the emerging concept of circular bioeconomy, we are proposing this special issue to serve as a platform for novel research that aims to suggest new multidisciplinary theoretical and experimental designs with industrial interest for the process of utilizing agro-industrial waste materials for biorefineries enabling exploitation by extracting not just bio energy and/or biofuels but also other valuable chemicals, oligomers and polymers. The research related to the societal economical evaluation and life cycle assessment for the greener technologies are also very important for the development of circular bioeconomy throughout the world.
In this Research Topic, both research and review articles are invited. Themes covered in this Research Topic include, (but are not limited to) the following:
• Waste utilization for obtaining industrially important valuable chemicals and compounds
• New green technologies or biorefinery processing methods involved in the production of value added products
• Economical evaluation and Life cycle assessment of different technologies involved in the waste to wealth approach
• Developing a futuristic roadmap for the waste dependent biorefinery concept and addressing the current knowledge gaps
In response to the emerging concept of circular bioeconomy, we are proposing this special issue to serve as a platform for novel research that aims to suggest new multidisciplinary theoretical and experimental designs with industrial interest for the process of utilizing agro-industrial waste materials for biorefineries enabling exploitation by extracting not just bio energy and/or biofuels but also other valuable chemicals, oligomers and polymers. The research related to the societal economical evaluation and life cycle assessment for the greener technologies are also very important for the development of circular bioeconomy throughout the world.
In this Research Topic, both research and review articles are invited. Themes covered in this Research Topic include, (but are not limited to) the following:
• Waste utilization for obtaining industrially important valuable chemicals and compounds
• New green technologies or biorefinery processing methods involved in the production of value added products
• Economical evaluation and Life cycle assessment of different technologies involved in the waste to wealth approach
• Developing a futuristic roadmap for the waste dependent biorefinery concept and addressing the current knowledge gaps
Keywords: Circular economy, biorefinery, bioenergy, bio-based chemical, waste utilization, valorization, sustainable development
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