TY - JOUR

T1 - Tropical agroindustrial biowaste revalorization through integrative biorefineries—review part II

T2 - pineapple, sugarcane and banana by-products in Costa Rica

AU - Eixenberger, Daniela

AU - Carballo-Arce, Ana Francis

AU - Vega-Baudrit, José Roberto

AU - Trimino-Vazquez, Humberto

AU - Villegas-Peñaranda, Luis Roberto

AU - Stöbener, Anne

AU - Aguilar, Francisco

AU - Mora-Villalobos, Jose Aníbal

AU - Sandoval-Barrantes, Manuel

AU - Bubenheim, Paul

AU - Liese, Andreas

N1 - Funding Information: The authors thank the financial support of the German-Costa Rican binational funds from the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany (CRIWTZ-060—AgroBioCat), the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, Costa Rica (FI-260B-17 SIA-UNA 250-18). Funding Information: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany): CRIWTZ-060 (AgroBioCat), Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICIT), Costa Rica (FI-260B-17; Project UNA-SIA-250–18).

PY - 2024/2

Y1 - 2024/2

N2 - Biorefineries are a model for greener production processes, based on the concept of bioeconomy. Instead of targeting first-generation biofuels—that compete with food supply—the focus relies on lignocellulosic material, considering many aspects, such as sustainable fuel production, as well as valorization of waste, as an alternative to the traditional petrochemical approach of goods production. Especially, in tropical countries agricultural activities lead to tremendous amounts of biomass, resulting in waste that has to be dealt with. In the case of Costa Rica, the five major crops cultivated for export are coffee, oil palm, pineapple, sugarcane, and banana. Traditional ways of waste treatment cannot cope with the increasing amount of biomass produced and therefore, bear various challenges often related to increased pollution. This review aims to bring up the recent state of waste treatment but even more, stress potential opportunities of adding value to not used residues; thus, improve sustainability in the agro industrial sector. Part I of the review already highlighted the potential of producing promising bioactive chemical compounds by novel biorefinery concepts from agricultural waste originating from coffee and oil palm cultivation. This second part focuses on the lignocellulose-rich biowaste from pineapple, sugarcane, and banana, showing biorefinery concepts, where fuel and energy production, as well as establishment of novel products and new applications, play an important role.

AB - Biorefineries are a model for greener production processes, based on the concept of bioeconomy. Instead of targeting first-generation biofuels—that compete with food supply—the focus relies on lignocellulosic material, considering many aspects, such as sustainable fuel production, as well as valorization of waste, as an alternative to the traditional petrochemical approach of goods production. Especially, in tropical countries agricultural activities lead to tremendous amounts of biomass, resulting in waste that has to be dealt with. In the case of Costa Rica, the five major crops cultivated for export are coffee, oil palm, pineapple, sugarcane, and banana. Traditional ways of waste treatment cannot cope with the increasing amount of biomass produced and therefore, bear various challenges often related to increased pollution. This review aims to bring up the recent state of waste treatment but even more, stress potential opportunities of adding value to not used residues; thus, improve sustainability in the agro industrial sector. Part I of the review already highlighted the potential of producing promising bioactive chemical compounds by novel biorefinery concepts from agricultural waste originating from coffee and oil palm cultivation. This second part focuses on the lignocellulose-rich biowaste from pineapple, sugarcane, and banana, showing biorefinery concepts, where fuel and energy production, as well as establishment of novel products and new applications, play an important role.

KW - Banana

KW - Bioeconomy

KW - Pineapple

KW - Sugarcane

KW - Value-added products

KW - Waste biorefinery

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129639571&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s13399-022-02721-9

DO - 10.1007/s13399-022-02721-9

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85129639571

VL - 14

SP - 4391

EP - 4418

JO - BIOMASS CONVERSION AND BIOREFINERY

JF - BIOMASS CONVERSION AND BIOREFINERY

SN - 2190-6815

IS - 4

ER -