Scale-up and sustainability evaluation of biopolymer production from citrus waste offering carbon capture and utilisation pathway
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Invited for this month's cover picture is the group of Dr Miao Guo from Department of Chemical Engineering at the Imperial College London (UK). The cover picture shows modelling research on the co-polymerisation of waste-sourced limonene oxide with CO2 to produce poly(limonene carbonate), which offers a sustainable pathway to achieve carbon capture and utilisation. A computational approach to process design was integrated with sustainability evaluation to model this synthetic pathway and identify the environmental-damaging and performance-limiting steps for further improvement. Our research highlights the potential of closed-loop manufacturing systems with waste recovery, which is instrumental in building a sustainable circular economy.
Date Issued
2019-06-01
Date Acceptance
2019-05-01
Citation
ChemistryOpen, 2019, 8 (6), pp.668-688
ISSN
2191-1363
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
668
End Page
688
Journal / Book Title
ChemistryOpen
Volume
8
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31172002
PII: OPEN201900161
Grant Number
EP/L017393/1
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Germany
Date Publish Online
2019-05-21