Francesco Cherubini

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a description of the emerging biorefinery concept, in comparison with the current oil refinery, as well as discussion of the most important biomass feedstocks, conversion technologies and final products.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of published papers and elaboration of software data concerning greenhouse gas and energy balances of bioenergy, other renewable and conventional fossil systems, discusses key issues in bioenergy system LCA.

TL;DR: This work performs a review of the recent bioenergy LCA literature, and a qualitative interpretation of the LCA results is depicted, focusing on energy balance, GHG balance and other impact categories.

TL;DR: In this article, a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of four waste management strategies: landfill without biogas utilization, landfill with biOGAS combustion to generate electricity, sorting plant which splits the inorganic waste fraction (used to produce electricity via Refuse Derived Fuels, RDF) from the organic waste fraction, used to produce bio-diesel via anaerobic digestion, direct incineration of waste, and these scenarios are applied to the waste amount and composition of the Municipality of Roma (Italy).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring together perspectives of various communities involved in the research and regulation of bioenergy deployment in the context of climate change mitigation: Land-use and energy experts, land use and integrated assessment modelers, human geographers, ecosystem researchers, climate scientists and two different strands of life-cycle assessment experts.