A review of sustainability indicators for biobased chemicals
Companies dealing with chemical products have to cope with large amounts of waste and environmental risk due to the use and production of toxic substances....Read More
Sustainability indicators for biobased chemicals: A Delphi study using Multi- Criteria Decision Analysis
Biobased chemistry has gained interest and has the potential to tackle some of the sustainability challenges the chemical industry must endure. Sustainability impacts need to...Read More
Environmental assessment of waste feedstock mono-dimensional and bio-refinery systems: Combining manure co-digestion and municipal waste anaerobic digestion
Organic municipal solid waste (OMSW) as a feedstock for energy recovery and material recycling offers the potential to reduce environmental impacts from energy production while...Read More
Using dynamic relative climate impact curves to quantify the climate impact of bioenergy production systems over time
The climate impact of bioenergy is commonly quantified in terms of CO2-equivalents, using afixed 100-year global warming potential as an equivalency metric. This method has...Read More
The potential of microalgae biorefineries in Belgium and India: An environmental techno-economic assessment
This study performs an environmental techno-economic assessment (ETEA) for multiple microalgae biorefinery concepts at different locations, those being Belgium and India. The ETEA methodology, which...Read More
Social sustainability assessments in the biobased economy: Towards a systemic approach
Taking a life cycle perspective, this review study provides a holistic view of the full sustainability of research, design, and innovation in the biobased economy...Read More
Cross border biobased education (GBO)
Flanders and the Netherlands are at the forefront of the biobased economy. With the presence of a large agricultural and chemical sector,...Read More