Abstract
The present work describes an example Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) applied to business as support. More in details, for biofuels, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is compulsory for certification of industrial sites since their sustainability must be in line with the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) datasets. Eni’s Green Refinery is an example of the application of LCT.It describes a process, at R&D level, for biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass deriving from crops not in conflict with the food sector. In particular, the process allows to obtain sugars from these lignocellulosic biomasses (saccharification section) and, once recovered, these sugars are used by oleaginous microrganisms (yeasts) in fermentations (fermentation section) for their growth. The lipids contained in yeast cells are recovered to produce a microbial oil that could be processed in an EcofiningTM plant. The environmental impact of advanced Green Diesel has been compared with RED datasets to prove its environmental sustainability.
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