Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy

Continual global energy scarcity and its future challenges, as well as environmental disasters, are causing global devastation. Additionally, a substantial quantity of food is being wasted regularly. Therefore, the adoption of circular bioeconomy principles and the bioconversion of wasted food appea...

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Main Author: Ahmed, Shams Forruque (author)
Other Authors: Kabir, Maliha (author), Mehjabin, Aanushka (author), Oishi, Fatema Tuz Zuhara (author), Ahmed, Samiya (author), Mannan, Samiha (author), Mofijur, M. (author), Almomani, Fares (author), Badruddin, Irfan Anjum (author), Kamangar, Sarfaraz (author)
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2023.09.137
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484723013823
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/65713
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Ahmed, S. F., Kabir, M., Mehjabin, A., Oishi, F. T. Z., Ahmed, S., Mannan, S., ... & Kamangar, S. (2023). Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy. Energy Reports, 10, 3073-3091.
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Bioproduct
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Circular bioeconomy
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description Continual global energy scarcity and its future challenges, as well as environmental disasters, are causing global devastation. Additionally, a substantial quantity of food is being wasted regularly. Therefore, the adoption of circular bioeconomy principles and the bioconversion of wasted food appears to be both highly advantageous and urgently required. However, previous studies have placed limited emphasis on the technological progress and circular bioeconomy aspects associated with the bioconversion of wasted food. The present review thus investigates how mass-generated food waste can be used to produce valuable bioproducts through bioconversion techniques such as oleaginous metabolism, anaerobic fermentation, and solventogenesis. These techniques have attracted considerable interest due to their eco-friendly and resource-recycling capacities, as well as their efficiency and sustainability. The paper also discusses approaches to integrate biorefineries within existing economies to establish a circular bioeconomy and analyses the challenges as well as the techno-economic, environmental and life cycle scenarios of these approaches. Analysis of the techno-economic and environmental effects reveals that food waste biorefineries can be lucrative if certain pathways are maintained. The environmental impact of bioconversion methods that produce valuable bioproducts is also found to be substantially lower than that of conventional methods. Integrating bioconversion processes further improves the efficiency of the process and sustainably recovers resources. Developing a circular bioeconomy requires the adoption of a biorefinery strategy with an integrated approach.
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spelling Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomyAhmed, Shams ForruqueKabir, MalihaMehjabin, AanushkaOishi, Fatema Tuz ZuharaAhmed, SamiyaMannan, SamihaMofijur, M.Almomani, FaresBadruddin, Irfan AnjumKamangar, SarfarazBioconversionFood wasteBioproductBioenergyBiorefineryCircular bioeconomyContinual global energy scarcity and its future challenges, as well as environmental disasters, are causing global devastation. Additionally, a substantial quantity of food is being wasted regularly. Therefore, the adoption of circular bioeconomy principles and the bioconversion of wasted food appears to be both highly advantageous and urgently required. However, previous studies have placed limited emphasis on the technological progress and circular bioeconomy aspects associated with the bioconversion of wasted food. The present review thus investigates how mass-generated food waste can be used to produce valuable bioproducts through bioconversion techniques such as oleaginous metabolism, anaerobic fermentation, and solventogenesis. These techniques have attracted considerable interest due to their eco-friendly and resource-recycling capacities, as well as their efficiency and sustainability. The paper also discusses approaches to integrate biorefineries within existing economies to establish a circular bioeconomy and analyses the challenges as well as the techno-economic, environmental and life cycle scenarios of these approaches. Analysis of the techno-economic and environmental effects reveals that food waste biorefineries can be lucrative if certain pathways are maintained. The environmental impact of bioconversion methods that produce valuable bioproducts is also found to be substantially lower than that of conventional methods. Integrating bioconversion processes further improves the efficiency of the process and sustainably recovers resources. Developing a circular bioeconomy requires the adoption of a biorefinery strategy with an integrated approach.The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work through the Small Groups Project under grant number RGP. 1/244/44.Elsevier2025-06-24T08:29:24Z2023-11-30Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2023.09.137Ahmed, S. F., Kabir, M., Mehjabin, A., Oishi, F. T. Z., Ahmed, S., Mannan, S., ... & Kamangar, S. (2023). Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy. Energy Reports, 10, 3073-3091.23524847https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484723013823http://hdl.handle.net/10576/657133073-309110enhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:qspace.qu.edu.qa:10576/657132025-06-25T05:51:43Z
spellingShingle Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy
Ahmed, Shams Forruque
Bioconversion
Food waste
Bioproduct
Bioenergy
Biorefinery
Circular bioeconomy
status_str publishedVersion
title Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy
title_full Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy
title_fullStr Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy
title_full_unstemmed Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy
title_short Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy
title_sort Waste biorefinery to produce renewable energy: Bioconversion process and circular bioeconomy
topic Bioconversion
Food waste
Bioproduct
Bioenergy
Biorefinery
Circular bioeconomy
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2023.09.137
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484723013823
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/65713