Bioprocessing of waste biomass for sustainable product development and minimizing environmental impact
Abstract
Growing concerns around the generation of biomass waste have triggered conversation around sustainable utilization of these seemingly waste materials as feedstock towards energy generation and production of chemicals and other value-added products. Thus, biotechniques such as utilization of microbes and enzymes derived thereof have become important avenues for green pretreatment and conversion of biomass wastes. Although the products of these bioconversions are greener at an overall level, their consumption and utilization still impact the environment. Hence it is important to understand the overall impact from cradle to grave through lifecycle assessment (LCA) techniques and find avenues of process optimization and better utilization of all the materials and products involved. Another factor to consider is overall cost optimization to make the process economically feasible, profitable and increase industrial adoption. This review brings forward these critical aspects to provide better understanding for the advancement of bioeconomy.
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Biomass/biochar carbon materials are low-cost, abundant, and sustainable carbon resources.
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- Authors
- Usmani, Z., Sharma, M., Awasthi, A. K., Sivakumar, N., Lukk, T., Pecoraro, L., Thakur, V. K., Roberts, D., Newbold, J., & Gupta, V. K.
- Affiliations
- Tallinn University of Technology (EE)
- Eternal University (IN)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
- Sultan Qaboos University (OM)
- Tianjin University (CN)
- Scotland's Rural College (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Gupta, Vijai Kumar
- ORCID
- Venue
- Bioresource Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-02
- Volume
- 322
- Pages
- 124548
- ISSN
- 0960-8524 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3113100579
- Cited by
- 231
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Bioresource Technology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European regional development fund
- Tallinn University of Technology and Scotland’s Rural College
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Keywords
- biomass waste, bioprocessing, biotransformation, microbial pretreatment, enzymatic pretreatment, value-added products, clean energy, life cycle assessment, environmental impact, process optimization, cost optimization, bioeconomy
- MeSH terms
- Biomass, Biofuels
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