Recent Trends in Integrated Biorefineries Development for Sustainable Production

Design of integrated biorefineries

The design of biorefineries from pilots and installed facilities bears tremendous social and economic benefits. By 2020, Bloomberg predicts that, only in Europe, there would be around 1,000 of such new units bringing €32.3 trillion revenues and 1 million new jobs. Process systems engineering has a pivotal and critical role in the development of biorefineries. The general view is increasingly su...

Multipurpose, Integrated 2nd Generation Biorefineries

1Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), University of Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 2Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, 40131 Bologna, Italy 3Department of Chemistry, UCBIO-Requimte, Faculty of Science&Technology, NewUniversity of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal 4Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering and Envi...

Analysis of Integrated Tropical Biorefineries

Systematic synthesis of sustainable biorefineries: A review

In this paper we review the current effort towards the design of production processes from different sources of biomass including first, second and third generation of biofuels such as bioethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, FT-diesel. We review results of the design of these processes using advanced mathematical programming techniques to systematically evaluate a large number of alternative technolog...

Recent Trends in Archaeological Theory: Some Comments

 This paper selectively reviews some recent themes in archaeological theory:  a philosophical pragmatism, a turn to materiality, and understanding the past in the context of the present.  It concludes with some reflective comments on the author’s Archaeological Theory:  An Introduction, in advance of the third revised edition.