Publikation: The green waste-biorefinery

Das Lehrgebiet BioVT ist Co-Autor bei einem Unterkapitel im neuen "Handbook of Waste Biorefinery", das bei Springer-Nature erschienen ist.

This handbook discusses the latest developments in biorefinery technologies for waste-to-energy conversion. The growing global population and the accompanying increase in consumption and waste production make it urgent to find the best possible use of our resources. A sustainable waste management under the biorefinery concept has great potential to support a sustainable circular economy and green energy production.

The reduction of CO₂ emissions required in the course of climate protection is forcing the economy to switch raw materials from fossil to renewable energy and carbon sources. This also applies to the chemical industry, which can switch to biogenic carbon sources for organic chemical products. To avoid competition with the food sector, non-food biomass is also being considered. In this context, biogenic residual and waste materials, as they occur spatially concentrated especially in metropolitan regions, are of particular interest. The potential of these potential raw materials for value creation, ecological sustainability and employment is presented using the example of the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region (Germany), where the initiative Innovation Space BioBall (Bioeconomy in a Metropolitan Region) is developing the foundations for an urban circular bioeconomy.

A. Langsdorf, M. Volkmar, R. Ulber, D. Holtmann; The green waste-biorefinery; in: M. Kircher, T. Bayer; How to realize an urban circular bioeconomy; in: E. Jacob-Lopes, L. Queiroz Zepka, M. Costa Deprá (Eds.); Handbook of Waste Biorefinery - Chapter 35, Springer-Nature (2022)