Journal Article

Utilization of agricultural waste biomass and recycling toward circular bioeconomy

Kumar Sarangi, Prakash, Saha, Koel, Prasad Shadangi, Krushna, Pattnaik, Bhabjit, Bhatia, Latika, Arya, Raj Kumar, Subudhi, Sanjukta, Mudgil, Divya, Srivastava, Rajesh K.

2023

Overview

The major global concern on energy is focused on conventional fossil resources. The burning of fossil fuels is an origin of greenhouse gas emissions resulting in the utmost threat to the environment and subsequently which leads to global climate changes. As far as sustainability is concerned, fuels and materials derived from organic or plant wastes overcome this downside establishing the solution to the fossil resource crisis. In this context, exploration of agricultural residue appears to be a suitable alternative of non-renewable resources to support the environmental feasibility and meet the high energy crisis. The use of agricultural waste as a feedstock for the biorefinery approach emerges to be an eco-friendly process for the production of biofuel and value-added chemicals, intensifying energy security. Therefore, a prospective choice of this renewable biomass for the synthesis of green fuel and other green biochemicals comes up with a favorable outcome in terms of cost-effectiveness and sustainability. Exploiting different agricultural biomass and exploring various biomass conversion techniques, biorefinery generates bioenergy in a strategic way which eventually fits in a circular bioeconomy. Sources and production of agricultural waste are critically explained in this paper, which provides a path for further value addition by various technologies. Biorefinery solutions, along with a life cycle assessment of agricultural waste biomass toward a wide array of value-added products aiding the bioeconomy, are summarized in this paper.

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Agricultural pollution / Agricultural wastes / Agriculture / Alternative energy sources / Aquatic Pollution / Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution / Biodiesel fuels / bioeconomics / Biofuels / Biogas / Biomass / Biomass energy / Biorefineries / biorefining / Cereals / climate / Climate change / Consumption / Cost effectiveness / Crop residues / Crude oil / Crude oil prices / Earth and Environmental Science / Ecotoxicology / Emissions / energy / Energy resources / Energy security / Environment / Environmental Chemistry / Environmental Health / feedstocks / Food / Fossil Fuels / Global climate / Greenhouse gas emissions / Greenhouse gases / Industrial wastes / Life cycle analysis / Life cycle assessment / Lignocellulose / mineral resources / Nonrenewable resources / Plants / Prospective Studies / Raw materials / Recent Innovations in Clean and Green Conversion Technologies Dealing with Air / Recycling / Refineries / Refining / Renewable energy / Renewable resources / Rice / Soil / Sugarcane / Sustainability / Sustainable development / Sustainable yield / value added / Waste Water Technology / Water / Water Management / Water Pollution Control / Wheat