Olive prunings are considered a potential lignocellulosic raw material for production of energy (fuel-ethanol, pellets...) and other value-added products as an alternative to starch-containing feedstock. From an economic point of view, it is particularly important to recover sugars from...

The outcome of this Report suggests there is strong viability for the establishment of a 60,000 tonne p.a. (raw material input) biodiesel plant.A plant of this size would provide an annual output (at full production levels) of 59.7m litres of biodiesel, 6.12m kilograms of crude glycerine, and...

Real production systems are often vertically integrated in thesense that one production process uses the unwanted joint product of another production process as input.This interrelationship links in a non-obvious way the different negative externalities stemming from theproduction processes. An...