The use of maize stover and sugar beet pulp as feedstocks in industrial fermentation plants – An economic and environmental perspective

Techno-economic, life cycle, and environmental cost assessment of biojet fuel obtained from Pinus pinaster by turpentine hydrogenation

“…The Environmental Prices methodology is relatively new (available in SimaPro 9.0 released in 2019 70 ), so few studies on biofuels have used it for assessing the environmental cost of the process combining the internal and the external costs of the process. 71 Yadav et al 72 studied the environmental impact assessment of methanol production from wood biomass through different production processes and obtained an environmental cost ranging from 0.044 to 0.023 € per kg, lower than the values obtained in this study that ranges between 0.098 and 0.057 € per kg depending on the productivity of the pines. It is difficult to compare such values since the production processes are different, and they do not account neither for transport nor for combustion.…”

Sugar Beet Pulp in the Context of Developing the Concept of Circular Bioeconomy

“…Anaerobic decomposition of sugar beet pulp occurs at faster rate than in the landfill and also gives the best environmental performance than other options. But incineration (sugar beet pulp have the lower heating value of 3.4 MJ•kg-1 on a wet basis [147] of sugar beet pulp for power generation was more favorable environmental process [148].…”

“…In the work of Câmara-Salim et al [147] an environmental assessment of sugar beet pulp and maize stover was performed through life cycle assessment method. In addition, an economic evaluation considering also the costs associated with environmental pollution was conducted.…”