Bioresource utilisation by sustainable technologies in new value-added biorefinery concepts – two case studies from food and forest industry

Improved thermo-oxidative stability of structurally modified waste cooking oil methyl esters for bio-lubricant application

“…1, it can be seen that apart from Run No-1 experiments conducted at all other conditions showed soap formation during water washing step, which lowers the methyl esters yield. Similarly, Ekman et al (2013) and Fedosov et al (2011) reported the quality and quantity analysis of biodiesel by TLC technique and findings of this study agrees well with the reported literature. Therefore, same reaction condition (Table 1, Run No-1) was adopted for methyl ester synthesis which yields 95% conversion.…”

Making Virtue Out of Necessity: Managing the Citrus Waste Supply Chain for Bioeconomy Applications

“…Recent studies have analyzed the development of novel value chains for promoting biomass valorization, highlighting several implementation challenges [58][59][60][61][62][63]. To illustrate this, Ekman and colleagues [64] pointed out the high risk perception of investors that is associated with the implementation of technological innovations needed for processing waste and by-products. Carraresi and colleagues [58] highlighted that to create value through by-products valorization, companies should re-design their business models by enhancing the adoption of technological innovations.…”

What would potential future opinion leaders like to know? An explorative study on the perceptions of four wood-based innovations

“…In this study, innovations like wood-based building systems or construction materials were largely recognized by the general public, whereas composite materials, material substitution, production processes, and biofuels received only medium, and nanocellulose only little recognition (Stern et al, 2018). Based on the findings of these and other studies highlighting the potential of wood-based innovations (Bajpai, 2013;Ekman et al, 2013;Näyhä et al, 2014;Roos et al, 2014;de Assis et al, 2017;Reid et al, 2017), four complementary innovations are taken into account in this study: • Wooden multi story buildings (WMC) as an example of using an innovative building material such as cross laminated timber • Natural fiber reinforced composites (NFC) as one example of materials, which can have favorable environmental impacts compared with their counterparts by comparable functional performance • Nanocellulose (NC) as an example of a wood-based innovation of high expectations and with many potential future applications, such as composites or packaging (Eichhorn et al, 2009) • The concept of biorefinery (BR), as the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of marketable products and energy substituting fossil resources, of which the lignocellulosic biorefinery is considered to have the biggest market potential.…”