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Abstract
Biorefineries have been established since 1980s for biofuel production, switching lately from first to second generation feedstocks in order to avoid the food versus fuel dilemma. In a lesser extent, many opportunities have been investigated to produce chemicals from biomass using by-products of present biorefineries, simple waste streams. Current facilities apply intensive pre-treatments to deal with single substrate types such as carbohydrates. However, most organic streams such as municipal solid waste or algal blooms present a high complexity and variable mixture of molecules, which makes difficult specific compound production and separation. Here we focus on flexible anaerobic fermentation and hydrothermal processes that can treat complex biomass as a whole to obtain a range of products within an integrated biorefinery concept.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665992.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665992.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 175-195 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Faraday Discussions |
Volume | 202 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2017 |
Keywords
- organic waste
- biorefinery
- anaerobic digestion
- renewable feedstocks
- platform chemicals
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Biotechnology
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Environmental Engineering
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Dive into the research topics of 'Organic waste as a sustainable feedstock for platform chemicals'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 4 Finished
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An Integrated Approach to Explore a Novel Paradigm for Biofuel Production from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks
Arnot, T. (PI), Leak, D. (PI), Coma Bech, M. (CoI), Crennell, S. (CoI) & Henk, D. (CoI)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
1/03/17 → 31/03/22
Project: Research council
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Newton Research Collaboration Programme - Remediation and Valorisation of Vietnamese Industrial Waste
Chuck, C. (PI) & Ting, V. (CoI)
1/01/15 → 1/10/15
Project: UK charity
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AVaRICE: Algal Valorisation & Remediation of metal Ion Contaminated Effluents
Chuck, C. (CoI)
13/10/14 → 13/04/15
Project: Research-related funding
Equipment
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Avance III 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer (9West)
Material and Chemical Characterisation (MC2)Facility/equipment: Equipment
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