Techno-Economic Assessment of a Scaled-Up Meat Waste Biorefinery System: A Simulation Study.

ABSTRACT: While exports from the meat industry in New Zealand constitute a valuable source of foreign exchange, the meat industry is also responsible for the generation of large masses of waste streams. These meat processing waste streams are largely biologically unstable and are capable of leading to unfavourable environmental outcomes if not properly managed. To enable the effective management of the meat processing waste streams, a value-recovery based strategy, for the complete valorisation of the meat processing waste biomass, is proposed. In the present study therefore, a biorefinery system that integrates the biomass conversion technologies of hydrolysis, esterification, anaerobic digestion and hydrothermal liquefaction has been modelled, simulated and optimized for enhanced environmental per

SUBMITTER: Okoro OV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6479899 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature