Sustainability assessment of selected biowastes as feedstocks for biofuel and biomaterial production by emergy evaluation in five African countries

Fabrizio, Saladinia; Said, A. Vuai; Mathias, Gustavsson; Bernard, Langat; Richard, Bayitse; Andrew, B.Gidamis; Mohammed, Belmakkie; Amal, S.Owis; Konanani, Rashamuse; Daniel, N. Sila; Simone, Bastianoni

dc.creator	Fabrizio, Saladinia
dc.creator	Said, A. Vuai
dc.creator	Mathias, Gustavsson
dc.creator	Bernard, Langat
dc.creator	Richard, Bayitse
dc.creator	Andrew, B.Gidamis
dc.creator	Mohammed, Belmakkie
dc.creator	Amal, S.Owis
dc.creator	Konanani, Rashamuse
dc.creator	Daniel, N. Sila
dc.creator	Simone, Bastianoni
dc.date	2021-05-10T11:26:17Z
dc.date	2021-05-10T11:26:17Z
dc.date	2016
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-20T13:09:27Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-20T13:09:27Z
dc.identifier	Saladini, F., Vuai, S. A., Langat, B. K., Gustavsson, M., Bayitse, R., Gidamis, A. B., ... & Bastianoni, S. (2016). Sustainability assessment of selected biowastes as feedstocks for biofuel and biomaterial production by emergy evaluation in five African countries. Biomass and Bioenergy, 85, 100-108.
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.11.016
dc.identifier	URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0961953415301574
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3007
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3007
dc.description	Abstract. Fulltext article available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.11.016
dc.description	Africa is a continent with enormous natural resources in the form of biomass and innovative ways are needed to exploit those ones available from agricultural processes and other production systems. This paper aims to assess the sustainability of a set of potential feedstocks for the production of biofuels and other value added products in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa. These feedstocks are residues from agricultural and industrial food processing systems that we assess by emergy evaluation for insights into their sustainability. The feedstocks are grouped into sugar-rich (corn stover, cassava peels, pineapple peels, olive oil pomace and rejected bananas) and nutrient-rich (cocoa pods, discarded cabbage leaves, cattle manure and soybean processing residues). Where possible, comparison is made between traditional and commercial production of the same good. Despite higher environmental impacts, commercial systems were found to perform better in exploiting natural resources. Finally, sugar- and nutrient-rich feedstocks were compared on the basis of glucan and ash content, respectively. Cassava peels and cattle manure gave the best performance from an emergy point of view. This approach enabled emergy evaluation of feedstocks that also considered their potential for the production of useful bio-products.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.subject	Biowaste
dc.subject	Residues biofuels
dc.subject	Africa
dc.subject	Emergy evaluation
dc.subject	Feedstocks
dc.subject	Natural resources
dc.subject	Biomass
dc.subject	Bio-products
dc.title	Sustainability assessment of selected biowastes as feedstocks for biofuel and biomaterial production by emergy evaluation in five African countries
dc.type	Article