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Bio-based platform molecules are chemicals identified as key agents in the development of circular bioeconomy. Their penetration into the current market would sustain the shift of a chemical industry mainly based on the use of petrochemical feedstock to the use of resources of biological origin. Bio-based platform chemicals have received much attention during the last decades, and thus, there is plenty of literature focused on their production throughout a plethora of different technologies. Nevertheless, most of these procedures lack of maturity and are subject to constraints. Thus, the way to ensure improved environmental sustainability is through the application of tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA). Although the integration of LCA is increasingly common during the design phase of these processes, the diverse modeling options can lead to very unlike results. Converging practices around consensus methodologies would lead to more reliable and comparable results. The purpose of this review is to identify the critical points of divergence that hinder this comparison and try to reconcile them towards the best options within biomass-derived platform chemicals specific context.

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Author

Jorge Blanco-Cejas; Sandra Martín; María Linares; Jose Iglesias; Jovita Moreno

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)