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T1 Integrated innovative biorefinery for the transformation of municipal solid waste into biobased products
A1 Pérez Martínez, Víctor
A1 Pascual, Andrés
A1 Rodrigo, Alfredo
A1 García Torreiro, María
A1 Latorre Sánchez, Marcos
A1 Coll Lozano, Caterina
A1 Moreno, Antonio David
A1 Oliva Dominguez, Jose Migue
A1 Serna Maza, Alba
A1 Herrero García, Natalia
A1 González Granados, Inmaculada
A1 Roldán Aguayo, Rocio
A1 Ovejero Roncero, David
A1 Molto Marin, Jose L.
A1 Smith, Mark
A1 Musinovic, Hana
A1 Raingué, Amélie
A1 Belard, Laurent
A1 Pascual, Celia
A1 Lebrero Fernández, Raquel
A1 Muñoz Torre, Raúl
K1 Biogas
K1 Biorefinery
K1 Municipal solid waste
K1 Residuos sólidos urbanos
AB The URBIOFIN demonstration-scale plant constitutes the first integrated biorefinery for the transformation of municipal solid waste (MSW) into new biobased products and a pioneer concept for converting the current linear economy to a more circular economy in the European Union (EU). URBIOFIN, with a total budget of 15 million €, is based on the synergistic action of 16 European companies, universities and research centers, and represents nowadays the most ambitious joint public-private research initiative to create a new model for the management of the organic fraction of MSW (OFMSW). The URBIOFIN biorefinery constitutes a demo-scale plant for the transformation of OFMSW into bioblocks (bioethanol, volatile fatty acids (VFA), and biogas), biopolymers (short-chain (scl-PHA) and medium-chain polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHA)) and additives (bioethylene and biofertilizers) using a battery of innovative physical-chemical and biological processes configured in a three step approach. In the pretreatment step, MSW must be sorted into OFMSW and non-organics that will be recycled. Subsequently, a fraction of OFMSW is pretreated, hydrolyzed and fermented into bioethanol, which will be catalytically converted into bioethylene (to be used for fruit ripening applications). Alternatively, the other fraction of OFMSW can be partially converted into VFAs, which will be biologically converted into scl-PHAs or elongated with bioethanol and further bioconverted into mcl-PHAs (to be used for packaging and agriculture). Finally, the VFA-free digestate is mixed with the vinasse originated from OFMSW fermentation into bioethanol and anaerobically biotransformed into biogas. Finally, biogas is photosynthetically upgraded to biomethane (to be injected into natural gas grids) or desulfurized and bioconverted into PHAs (for packaging applications) in biogas fermenters based on type II methanotrophs under nutrient-limiting conditions. The microalgae produced during photosynthetic biogas upgrading are further converted into biofertilizer.
PB Elsevier
SN 9780128182284
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/46643
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/46643
LA eng
NO Thallada Bhaskar, Ashok Pandey, Eldon R. Rene, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Editors. Waste Biorefinery, Elsevier, 2020, Pages 41-80
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 20-may-2024