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Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway
Poly(limonene carbonate) (PLC) has been highlighted as an attractive substitute to petroleum derived plastics, due to its utilisation of CO(2) and bio‐based limonene as feedstocks, offering an effective carbon capture and utilisation pathway. Our study investigates the techno‐economic viability and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6547945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31172004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/open.201900015 |
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author | Durkin, Alex Taptygin, Ivan Kong, Qingyuan Gunam Resul, Mohamad F. M. Rehman, Abdul Fernández, Ana M. L. Harvey, Adam P. Shah, Nilay Guo, Miao |
author_facet | Durkin, Alex Taptygin, Ivan Kong, Qingyuan Gunam Resul, Mohamad F. M. Rehman, Abdul Fernández, Ana M. L. Harvey, Adam P. Shah, Nilay Guo, Miao |
author_sort | Durkin, Alex |
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description | Poly(limonene carbonate) (PLC) has been highlighted as an attractive substitute to petroleum derived plastics, due to its utilisation of CO(2) and bio‐based limonene as feedstocks, offering an effective carbon capture and utilisation pathway. Our study investigates the techno‐economic viability and environmental sustainability of a novel process to produce PLC from citrus waste derived limonene, coupled with an anaerobic digestion process to enable energy cogeneration and waste recovery maximisation. Computational process design was integrated with a life cycle assessment to identify the sustainability improvement opportunities. PLC production was found to be economically viable, assuming sufficient citrus waste is supplied to the process, and environmentally preferable to polystyrene (PS) in various impact categories including climate change. However, it exhibited greater environmental burdens than PS across other impact categories, although the environmental performance could be improved with a waste recovery system, at the cost of a process design shift towards energy generation. Finally, our study quantified the potential contribution of PLC to mitigating the escape of atmospheric CO(2) concentration from the planetary boundary. We emphasise the importance of a holistic approach to process design and highlight the potential impacts of biopolymers, which is instrumental in solving environmental problems facing the plastic industry and building a sustainable circular economy. |
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spelling | pubmed-65479452019-06-06 Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway Durkin, Alex Taptygin, Ivan Kong, Qingyuan Gunam Resul, Mohamad F. M. Rehman, Abdul Fernández, Ana M. L. Harvey, Adam P. Shah, Nilay Guo, Miao ChemistryOpen Full Papers Poly(limonene carbonate) (PLC) has been highlighted as an attractive substitute to petroleum derived plastics, due to its utilisation of CO(2) and bio‐based limonene as feedstocks, offering an effective carbon capture and utilisation pathway. Our study investigates the techno‐economic viability and environmental sustainability of a novel process to produce PLC from citrus waste derived limonene, coupled with an anaerobic digestion process to enable energy cogeneration and waste recovery maximisation. Computational process design was integrated with a life cycle assessment to identify the sustainability improvement opportunities. PLC production was found to be economically viable, assuming sufficient citrus waste is supplied to the process, and environmentally preferable to polystyrene (PS) in various impact categories including climate change. However, it exhibited greater environmental burdens than PS across other impact categories, although the environmental performance could be improved with a waste recovery system, at the cost of a process design shift towards energy generation. Finally, our study quantified the potential contribution of PLC to mitigating the escape of atmospheric CO(2) concentration from the planetary boundary. We emphasise the importance of a holistic approach to process design and highlight the potential impacts of biopolymers, which is instrumental in solving environmental problems facing the plastic industry and building a sustainable circular economy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6547945/ /pubmed/31172004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/open.201900015 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Full Papers Durkin, Alex Taptygin, Ivan Kong, Qingyuan Gunam Resul, Mohamad F. M. Rehman, Abdul Fernández, Ana M. L. Harvey, Adam P. Shah, Nilay Guo, Miao Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway |
title | Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway |
title_full | Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway |
title_fullStr | Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway |
title_full_unstemmed | Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway |
title_short | Scale‐up and Sustainability Evaluation of Biopolymer Production from Citrus Waste Offering Carbon Capture and Utilisation Pathway |
title_sort | scale‐up and sustainability evaluation of biopolymer production from citrus waste offering carbon capture and utilisation pathway |
topic | Full Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6547945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31172004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/open.201900015 |
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