1. Home
  2. Food–Chem–Bio industry processes
  3. Bioprocesses and bioproductions
  4. Biorefineries

  5. Glossary

Article | REF: CHV602 V1

Biorefineries

Author: Paul COLONNA

Publication date: February 10, 2020

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

Français

8. Glossary

Life cycle analysis (LCA); Analyse de cycle de vie (ACV)

Standardized valuation method ( ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 ) to produce a multi-criteria, multi-stage environmental balance sheet for a product.

Biorefinery

A succession of physical, chemical and/or biological deconstruction, separation and functionalization technologies designed to sustainably transform biomass into platform molecules, intermediate or finished commercial products.

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD); Demande biochimique en oxygène (DBO)

Quantity of O 2 required to oxidize organic matter biologically. It is used to assess...

You do not have access to this resource.

Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
+ More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

This article is included in

Bioprocesses and bioproductions

This offer includes:

Knowledge Base

Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

Services

A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

Practical Path

Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

Doc & Quiz

Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

Subscribe now!

Ongoing reading
Glossary
Outline