Integrated biorefineries—A bottom-up approach to biomass fractionation

Abstract

The development of biorefineries represents the key to accessing the integrated production of food, feed, chemicals, materials, goods, fuels and energy in the future. Biorefineries combine the required technologies for biogenic raw materials from agriculture and forestry with those of intermediate and final products. The specific focus of this chapter is the combination of green agriculture with physical and biotechnological processes for production of proteins as well as the platform chemicals lactic acid and lysine. The mass and energy flows (steam and electricity) of the biorefining of green biomass into these platform chemicals, proteins, and feed as well as biogas from residues are given. Economic and ecologic aspects for the cultivation of green biomass and the production of platform chemicals are described.