19Integrated Biorefineries for the Production of Bioethanol, Biodiesel, and Other Commodity Chemicals
Pedro F Souza Filho1,2 and Mohammad J Taherzadeh1
1Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Borås, 501 90, Borås, Sweden
2Current Address: Biochemical Engineering Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal/RN 59078‐970, Brazil
19.1 Introduction
Increasing concerns about the environmental impacts of human activities have been leading the search for a new model of bioeconomy based on the production of energy and chemicals from renewable sources (Hasunuma et al. 2013). Climate change, energy security and rural development are pointed out as the main drivers for the change from oil reserves towards biomass technology. In this context, biorefineries are facilities that integrate biomass conversion processes and equipment to exploit all the potential of biological raw materials in a sustainable, environment‐, and resource‐friendly process. The term biorefinery was coined in the late 1990s to describe the idea of a cluster of facilities, processes, and industries that can use any biomass feedstock to produce a range of products, including fuels, power, heat, chemicals, food, feed, and materials (Figure 19.1).
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