New Publication – Factsheets of Biorefinery Concepts

IEA Bioenergy Task 42 (‘Biorefining in a future bioeconomy’) regularly publishes factsheets of different types of biorefineries. These factsheets provide a uniform description of the key facts of a biorefinery. Based on a technical description and the classification scheme the mass and energy balance is calculated for the most reasonable production capacity for each of the selected biorefineries. Then the three dimensions – economic, environmental and social – of sustainability are assessed for each biorefinery and documented in a compact form in the Biorefinery Fact Sheet. These are the latest factsheets released:

• Biorefinery producing pulp, lignin and energy from wood chips (via black liquor platform): http://task42.ieabioenergy.com/publications/1%e2%80%90platform-black-liquor-biorefinery-to-produce-pulp-lignin-and-energy-from-wood-chips/
• Biorefinery producing PHB biopolymer (Polyhydroxybutyrate), electricity and heat from sugar beet or sugar cane (via C5 & C6 sugars, biogas platforms): http://task42.ieabioenergy.com/publications/2%e2%80%90platform-c5c6-sugars-biogas/
• Biorefinery producing bioethanol, electricity and heat from corn stover (via C5 & C6 sugars, lignin platforms): http://task42.ieabioenergy.com/publications/2%e2%80%90platform-c5c6-sugars-lignin-biorefinery-to-produce-bioethanol-electricity-heat-from-corn-stover/
• Biorefinery producing PLA biopolymer and animal feed from food waste (via C6 sugar, lipids platforms): http://task42.ieabioenergy.com/publications/2%e2%80%90platform-c6-sugar-lipids-biorefinery-to-produce-the-biopolymer-pla-animal-feed-from-food-waste/

Background for the factsheet data were already published here