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A biorefinery transforms biomass into usable products (fuel, electricity, chemicals) and resolves waste management and greenhouse gases emissions issues. The approach of life cycle assessment (LCA) is used to quantify the environmental impacts of biorefinery system and products across life cycle stages. Life cycle assessment is widely recognized as one of the most important techniques for assessing environmental issues in biomass supply chains, particularly at the processing stage, as well as for assisting in the prioritizing of certain biobased products and biorefinery alternatives. This book chapter discusses about case study of life cycle impacts of mango peel waste biorefinery with three processes. The GWP was found to be 3,230,000 kg CO2 eq for PEP. From LCA result, we concluded that it is always preferable to extract as many products as possible so that individual attribution of the product is as simple as achievable.
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Chaudhari, R., Khadke, P., Joglekar, S., Pathak, P.D. (2023). Applications of Life Cycle Assessment in Biorefinery: Case Study on Mango Peel Waste Biorefinery. In: Pathak, P.D., Mandavgane, S.A. (eds) Biorefinery: A Sustainable Approach for the Production of Biomaterials, Biochemicals and Biofuels. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7481-6_13
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