Techno-Economic Assessment of an Olive Mill Wastewater (OMWW) Biorefinery in the Context of Circular Bioeconomy

The concept of biorefinery constitutes a significant contributing factor to the emerging transition toward sustainable bioeconomy. In such context, replacing oil and petrochemicals by biomass may involve several feedstocks, platforms, processes, technologies, as well final products. This paper concentrates on complex process transferring from laboratory industry, sheds light techno-economic complexity management dimensions involved in this endeavor. Toward end, adopting systems perspective, presents structured comprehensive framework, comprising definition transformation process, business model development, assessment, strategic positioning viability which be employed facilitate engineering at large launch biorefining venture circular bioeconomy context. framework is applied context plant specific region southern Greece, based valorization olive mill wastewater (a ‘strong’ quite common industrial waste Mediterranean basin), produces biopolymers (PHAs) bioenergy (H2).