Sustainable development is the common goal of the current concepts of bioeconomy and
circular economy. In this sense, the biorefineries platforms are a strategic factor to increase …

The increase in worldwide demand for energy is driven by the rapid increase in population
and exponential economic development. This resulted in the fast depletion of fossil fuel …

The principal motivation of this work is to evaluate the existing fuel use (gasoline or ethanol)
and new alternative source of power supply (electricity) for vehicles in Brazil, and to assess …

Due to the lack of appropriate policies in the last decades, 60% of Brazilian cities still dump
their waste in non-regulated landfills (the remaining ones dump their trash in regulated …

Biofuel is recognised as an important renewable and sustainable energy source to
substitute fossil fuel. To date, biofuel has been evolved from first to fourth generation and …

Renewable energy is crucial nowadays, and among the options, biofuels are evidenced as
a promising alternative to reduce the dependence of fossil fuels. However, there is a paucity …

Biodiesel production was stimulated in Brazil by the National Program for Production and
Use of Biodiesel. The program has two objectives: ensuring both production and domestic …

The goal of this work is to research the state-of-the-art in process optimization techniques
and tools based on LCA, focused in the process engineering field. A collection of methods …

Energy crops are expected to greatly develop in a very short-term bringing to significant
social and environmental benefits. Nevertheless, a significant number of studies report from …

Studies on bioethanol produced from a variety of non-edible feedstocks have recently
gained considerable attention because such production can avoid the conflict between food …