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Abstract
Agricultural waste is a huge pool of untapped biomass resources that may even represent economic and environmental burdens. They can be converted into bioenergy and bio-based products by cascading conversion processes, within circular economy, and should be considered residual resources. Major challenges are discussed from a transdisciplinary perspective, focused on Europe situation. Environmental and economic consequences of agricultural residue management chains are difficult to assess due to their complexity, seasonality and regionality. Designing multi-criteria decision support tools, applicable at an early-stage of research, is discussed. Improvement of Anaerobic Digestion (AD), one of the most mature conversion technologies, is discussed from a technological point of view and waste feedstock geographical and seasonal variations. Using agricultural residual resources for producing high-value chemicals is a considerable challenge analysed here, taking into account innovative eco-efficient and cost-effective cascading conversion processes (bio-refinery concept). Moreover, the promotion of agricultural residues-based business is discussed through industrial ecology, to promote synergy, on a local basis, between different agricultural and industrial value chains. Finally, to facilitate a holistic approach and optimise materials and knowledge flows management, the connection of stakeholders is discussed to promote cross-sectorial collaboration and resource exchange at appropriate geographic scales.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 614-654 |
Journal | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 24 Aug 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Agriculture
- bio-based materials
- biogas
- circular economy
- eco-design
- waste
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Projects
- 2 Finished
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NoAW: Innovative approaches to turn agricultural waste into ecological and economic assets
1/10/16 → 30/09/20
Project: EU research project
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AF-EU-16005 - NoAW (BO-61-101-005, BO-46-001-003, BO-32.02-006-008)
1/01/16 → 31/12/20
Project: EZproject