Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach
The aim of this work was to perform a life-cycle analysis of the production process of a fungicide based on amphidinols. Two scenarios were evaluated: (1) biorefinery process -biofungicide, fatty acids and carotenoids were considered as co-products-, and (2) biofungicide as only product. Inventory d...
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| author | Lopez Herrada, Eduardo Gallardo Rodríguez, Juan José López Rosales, Lorenzo Cerón García, María Del Carmen Sánchez Mirón, Asterio García Camacho, Francisco |
| author_facet | Lopez Herrada, Eduardo Gallardo Rodríguez, Juan José López Rosales, Lorenzo Cerón García, María Del Carmen Sánchez Mirón, Asterio García Camacho, Francisco |
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| description | The aim of this work was to perform a life-cycle analysis of the production process of a fungicide based on amphidinols. Two scenarios were evaluated: (1) biorefinery process -biofungicide, fatty acids and carotenoids were considered as co-products-, and (2) biofungicide as only product. Inventory data were taken and scaled-up from previous work on pilot-scale reactors, as well as lab-scale downstream equipment. A yearly production of 22,000 L of fungicide, was selected as the production objective. Despite, photosynthetic biomass is a sink of anthropogenic CO2, harvesting and downstream processing have large carbon footprints that exceed the biomass fixed carbon. Producing the biofungicide resulted in 34.61 and 271.33 ton of CO2e (15 years) for the Scenarios 1 and 2, respectively. Different commercial agricultural fungicides were compared with the microalgal fungicide. A lower impact of the microalgal product for most of the indicators, including carbon footprint, was shown. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-152292024-01-17T11:44:17Z Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach Lopez Herrada, Eduardo Gallardo Rodríguez, Juan José López Rosales, Lorenzo Cerón García, María Del Carmen Sánchez Mirón, Asterio García Camacho, Francisco life-cycle analysis microalgae bioprocess fungicide The aim of this work was to perform a life-cycle analysis of the production process of a fungicide based on amphidinols. Two scenarios were evaluated: (1) biorefinery process -biofungicide, fatty acids and carotenoids were considered as co-products-, and (2) biofungicide as only product. Inventory data were taken and scaled-up from previous work on pilot-scale reactors, as well as lab-scale downstream equipment. A yearly production of 22,000 L of fungicide, was selected as the production objective. Despite, photosynthetic biomass is a sink of anthropogenic CO2, harvesting and downstream processing have large carbon footprints that exceed the biomass fixed carbon. Producing the biofungicide resulted in 34.61 and 271.33 ton of CO2e (15 years) for the Scenarios 1 and 2, respectively. Different commercial agricultural fungicides were compared with the microalgal fungicide. A lower impact of the microalgal product for most of the indicators, including carbon footprint, was shown. 2024-01-17T11:44:17Z 2024-01-17T11:44:17Z 2023-05-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 0960-8524 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15229 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129244 en https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852423006703?via%3Dihub info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Elsevier |
| spellingShingle | life-cycle analysis microalgae bioprocess fungicide Lopez Herrada, Eduardo Gallardo Rodríguez, Juan José López Rosales, Lorenzo Cerón García, María Del Carmen Sánchez Mirón, Asterio García Camacho, Francisco Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach |
| title | Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach |
| title_full | Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach |
| title_fullStr | Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach |
| title_short | Life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach |
| title_sort | life-cycle assessment of a microalgae-based fungicide under a biorefinery approach |
| topic | life-cycle analysis microalgae bioprocess fungicide |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15229 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129244 |
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