RT Journal Article
T1 Integral multi-valorization of agro-industrial wastes: A review
A1 Prado Acebo, Inés
A1 Cubero Cardoso, Juan
A1 Lu Chao, Thelmo Alejandro
A1 Eibes González, Gemma María
K1 Agro-industrial
K1 Biorefinery
K1 Multiproduct
K1 Multi-valorization
K1 Residue
K1 Zero-waste
AB Agriculture and industries related to the agriculture sector generate a large amount of waste each year. These wastes are usually burned or dumped, causing damage to the environment, the economy and society. Due to their composition, they have great potential for obtaining high value-added products in biorefineries. This fact, added to the growing demand for energy and chemicals from fossil resources, is driving the interest of the scientific community in them.Biorefinery processes are hardly profitable when applied individually, so a better alternative is to develop integrated multi-feedstock and multi-product biorefinery schemes using all biomass fractions in a zero-waste approach. However, for industrial scale application, extensive research, scale-up studies, and techno-economic and environmental feasibility analyses are needed. This review compiles information on integrated multi-biorefinery processes from agro-industrial wastes to shed light on the path towards sustainable development and circular bioeconomy.
PB Elsevier
SN 0956-053X
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34637
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34637
LA eng
NO Waste Management Volume 183 , 30 June 2024, Pages 42-52
NO Gemma Eibes thanks grant  RYC2018-026177-I funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Juan Cubero-Cardoso wants to thank also Next Generation European Funds and the Ministry of Universities of Spain for funding the Recualificación del Profesorado Universitario system. The authors belong to the Galician Competitive Research Groups (GRC) ED431C-2021/37. The program is co-funded by FEDER (UE).
DS Minerva
RD 4 may 2026