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Food waste biorefinery: Sustainable strategy for circular bioeconomy.

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The present review highlights the various enabling bioprocesses that can be employed for the generation of energy and various commodity chemicals in an integrated approach addressing sustainability.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2018-01-01. It has received 478 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biorefinery & Commodity chemicals.

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Biorefineries in circular bioeconomy: A comprehensive review

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of different biorefinery models used for various biomass feedstocks such as lignocelluloses, algae, and numerous waste-types reveals that the social-economic aspect of the industrial sector has a major influence on the full adoption ofBiorefineries in circular bioeconomy.
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Bioengineering of anaerobic digestion for volatile fatty acids, hydrogen or methane production: A critical review

TL;DR: The theory and means to produce and accumulate VFAs and hydrogen, inhibit their conversion to methane and to extract them as the final products are provided.
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Volatile fatty acids production from food wastes for biorefinery platforms: A review.

TL;DR: Applications of VFAs considered in this study were biofuels and bioplastics production as well as nutrients removal in biological wastewater treatment processes.
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The Next Generation of Sustainable Food Packaging to Preserve Our Environment in a Circular Economy Context

TL;DR: Among potential solutions, production of microbial biodegradable polymers from agro-food waste residues seems a promising route to create an innovative, more resilient, and productive waste-based food packaging economy by decoupling the food packaging industry from fossil feed stocks and permitting nutrients to return to the soil.
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Value-added chemicals from food supply chain wastes: State-of-the-art review and future prospects

TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility and sustainability of food waste derived chemicals, together with the market outlook of recycling and valorization of food wastes from state-of-the-art perspectives are discussed.
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Global food losses and food waste: extent, causes and prevention.

TL;DR: The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK) as mentioned in this paper conducted two studies on global food losses, one for high/medium-income countries and one for low income countries, to serve as a basis for the international congress Save Food!, 16-17 May 2011, at the international packaging industry fair Interpack2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Process Design and Economics for Biochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Ethanol: Dilute-Acid Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Corn Stover

TL;DR: The conceptual design presented in this paper reports ethanol production economics as determined by 2012 conversion targets and 'nth-plant' project costs and financing for the biorefinery described here, processing 2,205 dry ton/day at 76% theoretical ethanol yield.
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Biofuels from microalgae.

TL;DR: In this article, microalgae have been investigated for the production of a number of different bio-fuels including biodiesel, biooil, bio-syngas, and bio-hydrogen.
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A review of the production and applications of waste-derived volatile fatty acids

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the various wastes amenable to VFA production, the pertinent factors influencing the VFO production, and the various applications of the resulting VFA.
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