Sustainable processes synthesis for renewable resources

Renewable resources – green biorefinery: separation of valuable substances from fluid–fractions by means of membrane technology

“…Perspective: Green biorefinery S Novalin, T Zweckmair the ensiling process, an acceptable amount of lactic acid and amino acids is produced, which make the grass silage a potential source for the production of these substances by means of suitable separation technology, although lactic acid and amino acids are preferentially produced by means of fermentation. 10 Currently it is not clear if the green biorefi nery represents an alternative technology in the future. Besides the silage press-juice, brown juice, which is produced by the cropdrying industry in Denmark, acts as an interesting starting material for L-lysine-production by means of fermentation.…”

Scope for the Application of Mathematical Programming Techniques in the Synthesis and Planning of Sustainable Processes

“…Steffens et al, 1999;Halasz et al, 2005). Some of them have applied optimization techniques to the molecular design of solvents and the synthesis of the associated separation processes (Pistikopoulos and Stefanis, 1998;Hostrup et al, 1999), whereas an increasing number of publications are addressing the synthesis of biofuels plants (e.g.…”

The Biorefinery Concept–An Integrated Approach

“…This integrated approach corresponds to the biorefinery concept and is gaining increased attention in many parts of the world (Kamm and Kamm, 2004;Halasz et al, 2005) As illustrated in Figure 1.2, the biorefinery of the future will be analogous to today's petrorefineries (Realff and Abbas, 2004; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, www.nrel.gov/biomass/biorefinery.html).…”