Industries across the world are making a transition from fossil resources to renewable
biological feedstock for the production of chemicals, fuels, and materials, as a strategy to …

The development and implementation of industrial biotechnology (IB) is associated with high
expectations for reductions of environmental impacts and risks, particularly in terms of …

Global environmental awareness has encouraged further research towards biofuel
production and consumption. Despite the favorable properties of biofuels, the sustainability …

Increase of concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in atmosphere have garnered lots
of attention due to the associated risk of global warming. Carbon footprint (CF) is a measure …

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 …

Just like for the food supply chain, sugar-based feedstock used in the bioethanol industry
might be affected by biological contamination, resulting in important economic losses …

Pretreatment is deemed as a key step to destroy biomass recalcitrance and improve enzyme
accessibility to cellulose during the second generation bioethanol production. A series of …

Abstract Isobutene (IBN, C4H8) is widely used in industry. Currently, IBN production relies
on petrochemical processes. The current work assesses the comparative environmental …

In recent years, the need to substitute fossil fuels with renewable biomass has been a key
driver in the development of the biorefinery concept. One of the possible routes towards the …

For many biorefinery processes, the development of effective preservation techniques is
essential to avoid any sugar loss between crop-harvesting and fermentation. In this work …