A review on beet sugar industry with a focus on implementation of waste-to-energy strategy for power supply

MA Rajaeifar, SS Hemayati, M Tabatabaei… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Among the various agri-food sub-sectors, sugar production is specifically ranked among the
top energy-intensive industries in which massive amounts of various fossil energy carriers …

[HTML][HTML] Root vegetable side streams as sources of functional ingredients for food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications: The current status and future …

Y Zhou, Y Tian, B Yang - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Rapid growth of global population leads to an increase in food demand and
food processing. Enormous amounts of root vegetable side streams (RVSS) are generated …

Conversion of sugars and biomass to furans using heterogeneous catalysts in biphasic solvent systems

JE Romo, NV Bollar, CJ Zimmermann… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Within the last decade, interest in using biphasic systems for producing furans from biomass
has grown significantly. Biphasic systems continuously extract furans into the organic phase …

[HTML][HTML] Integral use of pectin-rich by-products in a biorefinery context: a holistic approach

C Sabater, M Villamiel, A Montilla - Food Hydrocolloids, 2022 - Elsevier
There is no doubt that in recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of by-
products from the agri-food industry with the aim of achieving zero waste. In this context …

Restructuring the conventional sugar beet industry into a novel biorefinery: fractionation and bioconversion of sugar beet pulp into succinic acid and value-added …

M Alexandri, R Schneider… - ACS Sustainable …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Sustainable chemical production should rely on the valorization of crude renewable
resources. Waste biomass refining complies with bioeconomy and circular economy …

Valorisation of pectin-rich agro-industrial residues by yeasts: potential and challenges

LC Martins, CC Monteiro, PM Semedo… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Pectin-rich agro-industrial residues are feedstocks with potential for sustainable
biorefineries. They are generated in high amounts worldwide from the industrial processing …

Multi-criteria decision analysis of agri-food waste as a feedstock for biopolymer production

I Bolaji, B Nejad, M Billham, N Mehta, B Smyth… - Resources …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of renewable resources is becoming increasingly important if we are to address the
negative impacts of petroleum-based polymers. Utilising renewable resources, such as agri …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic evaluation of risk in bioenergy supply chains

CJ Axon, RC Darton - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce a novel method of evaluating risks of disruption to (bio) fuel supply chains. The
biofuel landscape is complex, with multiple options for feedstocks and processing routes, but …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of the production of beet sugar and its by-products

MNG Gonzalez, L Björnsson - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents estimates of the emissions resulting from the production of white sugar
and its by-products (molasses, pressed beet pulp and dried beet pulp) from sugar beet …

Sugar beet pulp in the context of developing the concept of circular bioeconomy

M Ptak, A Skowrońska, H Pińkowska, M Krzywonos - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The primary objective of this paper is to identify the possibilities of using sugar beet pulp as
feedstock to produce a variety of added-value products. Such an application of the sugar …