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Organic waste as a sustainable feedstock for platform chemicals

Biorefineries have been established since the 1980s for biofuel production, and there has been a switch lately from first to second generation feedstocks in order to avoid the food versus fuel dilemma. To a lesser extent, many opportunities have been investigated for producing chemicals from biomass...

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Autores principales: Coma, M., Martinez-Hernandez, E., Abeln, F., Raikova, S., Donnelly, J., Arnot, T. C., Allen, M. J., Hong, D. D., Chuck, C. J.
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Publicado: Royal Society of Chemistry 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28654113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7fd00070g
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author Coma, M.
Martinez-Hernandez, E.
Abeln, F.
Raikova, S.
Donnelly, J.
Arnot, T. C.
Allen, M. J.
Hong, D. D.
Chuck, C. J.
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Martinez-Hernandez, E.
Abeln, F.
Raikova, S.
Donnelly, J.
Arnot, T. C.
Allen, M. J.
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Chuck, C. J.
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description Biorefineries have been established since the 1980s for biofuel production, and there has been a switch lately from first to second generation feedstocks in order to avoid the food versus fuel dilemma. To a lesser extent, many opportunities have been investigated for producing chemicals from biomass using by-products of the 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 specific compound production and separation difficult. 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.
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spelling pubmed-57083582018-01-05 Organic waste as a sustainable feedstock for platform chemicals Coma, M. Martinez-Hernandez, E. Abeln, F. Raikova, S. Donnelly, J. Arnot, T. C. Allen, M. J. Hong, D. D. Chuck, C. J. Faraday Discuss Chemistry Biorefineries have been established since the 1980s for biofuel production, and there has been a switch lately from first to second generation feedstocks in order to avoid the food versus fuel dilemma. To a lesser extent, many opportunities have been investigated for producing chemicals from biomass using by-products of the 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 specific compound production and separation difficult. 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. Royal Society of Chemistry 2017-09-01 2017-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5708358/ /pubmed/28654113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7fd00070g Text en This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is freely available. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY 3.0)
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Martinez-Hernandez, E.
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Hong, D. D.
Chuck, C. J.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708358/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7fd00070g
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