TY - JOUR
T1 - Techno-economic feasibility of waste biorefinery
T2 - Using slaughtering waste streams as starting material for biopolyester production
AU - Shahzad, Khurram
AU - Narodoslawsky, Michael
AU - Sagir, Muhammad
AU - Ali, Nadeem
AU - Ali, Shahid
AU - Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz
AU - Ismail, Iqbal Mohammad Ibrahim
AU - Koller, Martin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
N2 - The utilization of industrial waste streams as input materials for bio-mediated production processes constitutes a current R&D objective not only to reduce process costs at the input side but in parallel, to minimize hazardous environmental emissions. In this context, the EU-funded project ANIMPOL elaborated a process for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolymers starting from diverse waste streams of the animal processing industry. This article provides a detailed economic analysis of PHA production from this waste biorefinery concept, encompassing the utilization of low-quality biodiesel, offal material and meat and bone meal (MBM). Techno-economic analysis reveals that PHA production cost varies from 1.41 €/kg to 1.64 €/kg when considering offal on the one hand as waste, or, on the other hand, accounting its market price, while calculating with fixed costs for the co-products biodiesel (0.97 €/L) and MBM (350 €/t), respectively. The effect of fluctuating market prices for offal materials, biodiesel, and MBM on the final PHA production cost as well as the investment payback time have been evaluated. Depending on the current market situation, the calculated investment payback time varies from 3.25 to 4.5 years.
AB - The utilization of industrial waste streams as input materials for bio-mediated production processes constitutes a current R&D objective not only to reduce process costs at the input side but in parallel, to minimize hazardous environmental emissions. In this context, the EU-funded project ANIMPOL elaborated a process for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolymers starting from diverse waste streams of the animal processing industry. This article provides a detailed economic analysis of PHA production from this waste biorefinery concept, encompassing the utilization of low-quality biodiesel, offal material and meat and bone meal (MBM). Techno-economic analysis reveals that PHA production cost varies from 1.41 €/kg to 1.64 €/kg when considering offal on the one hand as waste, or, on the other hand, accounting its market price, while calculating with fixed costs for the co-products biodiesel (0.97 €/L) and MBM (350 €/t), respectively. The effect of fluctuating market prices for offal materials, biodiesel, and MBM on the final PHA production cost as well as the investment payback time have been evaluated. Depending on the current market situation, the calculated investment payback time varies from 3.25 to 4.5 years.
KW - Biodiesel
KW - Economic analysis
KW - Offal
KW - Polyhydoxyalkanoate
KW - Slaughtering waste
KW - Waste biorefinery
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85020195835
U2 - 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.05.047
DO - 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.05.047
M3 - Article
C2 - 28595804
AN - SCOPUS:85020195835
SN - 0956-053X
VL - 67
SP - 73
EP - 85
JO - Waste Management
JF - Waste Management
ER -
