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@MISC{Gołaszewski_renewableenergy,
author = {Janusz Gołaszewski},
title = {Renewable energy Lectures L5.1},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Agro-biotechnology and agro-bio-chemical sciences will play a crucial role in building the future bioenergy portfolio and the resulting bio-based industry, which means that biotechnologists and chemists will focus their research on efficient processes of energy bioconversion from renewable resources and will support developing biomass-based product lines for industrial and agricultural sectors in an efficient and sustainable way. Being confronted with limited and successively depleted reserves of fossils, it is high time to reorient research from petro-chemical conversion processes to bio-chemical ones. Many processes of converting biomass to energy and bioproducts were developed but during the industrial era, due to the enormous pressure on fossil conversion, they have not been implemented. Implementation of the concept of a biochemical refinery (or a biorefinery) as an analogue to a petrochemical refinery is a challenge for the present time. The philosophy of a biorefinery is quite simple. It is a facility which produces a spectrum of bioproducts, including intermediates, bioenergy and biofuels, and all the biorefinery products contribute significantly to the global economy. As a result, a new market of bioproducts appears, which will require a special economic approach that will consider all and any elements of sustainable development, including environmental and social aspects. In other words, it will need a bio-based sustainable economy or simply bio-economy. Two hypotheses related to development of the biorefinery concept have been stated in this paper: 1) sustainable development needs sustainable energy, and 2) sustainable energy needs sustainable agriculture. Both are discussed in the context of bioconversion products and agri-energy complexes, including such facilities as a biogas plant, as well some elements of biorefinery production. In the conclusions it was stated that (i) biomass has a chance to be the main source of energy in the 21st century but it needs some changes in agriculture (ii) biogas plant is an environmental necessity and (iii) biorefinery — biofuels today, but the goal is to maximize the value of biomass.
Keyphrases
renewable energy lecture l5 biogas plant present time 21st century renewable resource energy bioconversion efficient process biorefinery biofuels today sustainable development biorefinery product sustainable way social aspect bioconversion product biomass-based product line petro-chemical conversion agri-energy complex bio-based industry depleted reserve main source crucial role sustainable energy need sustainable agriculture industrial era enormous pressure petrochemical refinery many process high time biorefinery production global economy sustainable development need sustainable energy agro-bio-chemical science agricultural sector future bioenergy portfolio biochemical refinery biorefinery concept fossil conversion new market bio-based sustainable economy bio-chemical one environmental necessity special economic approach
