Sustainable Materials: Production Methods and End-of-life Strategies

Authors

  • Arpa Ghosh Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Remy Buser Bloom Biorenewables SA, CH-1723 Marly, Switzerland
  • Florent Héroguel Bloom Biorenewables SA, CH-1723 Marly, Switzerland
  • Jeremy Luterbacher Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2023.848

PMID:

38131409

Keywords:

Bio-based, Biomass fractionation, Circular economy, End-of-life, Performance, Scalable process, Sustainable materials

Abstract

All three natural polymers of biomass and the monomer platforms derived from them present multiple avenues to develop products from specialty to bulk markets, which could serve as entry points into the industry for bio based sustainable materials. However, several roadblocks still exist in the pathway of technology development of these materials due to challenges related to cost-competitiveness, scalability, performance and sustainability. This review outlines these major technical challenges as four key checkpoints (cost-competitive, scalability, sustainability, performance) to be addressed for successful market entry of a new sustainable material.

Funding data

CHIMIA Vol. 77 No. 12 (2023): Green and Sustainable Chemistry - Waste Valorization

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Published

2023-12-20

Issue

Vol. 77 No. 12 (2023): Green and Sustainable Chemistry - Waste Valorization

Section

Scientific Articles

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Copyright (c) 2023 Florent Heroguel, Arpa Ghosh, Remy Buser, Jeremy Luterbacher

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

[1]
A. Ghosh, R. Buser, F. Héroguel, J. Luterbacher, Chimia 2023, 77, 848, DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2023.848.