Biorefinery materials into chemicals, power

Association s (lEA) definition, a biorefinery is the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of marketable products (food, feed, materials, chemicals) and energy (fuels, power, heat) (De Jong et ah, 2009). 

This book promotes the concept of the biorefinery, which is a facility that integrates biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power, and chemicals from biomass. The biorefinery concept is analogous to today s petroleum refineries, which produce multiple fuels and products from petroleum (Sauer et al., 2008). The classical corn wet milling is an example for the basis of the biorefinery concept whereby one raw material is processed into various products. 

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