Description: Sustainability assessment of the production of microbial bio-based surfactants

This title appears in the Scientific Report : 2021

Sustainability assessment of the production of microbial bio-based surfactants

Related to the development of production processes for microbial bio-based surfactants like rhamnolipids and mannosylerythritol lipids a sustainability assessment was carried out within the project Bio². Developments at lab-scale and technical scale built the base for an industrial design scenario o...

Personal Name(s):	Schonhoff, Andreas (Corresponding author)
	Zapp, Petra / Schreiber, Andrea
Contributing Institute:	Systemforschung und Technologische Entwicklung; IEK-STE
Published in:	Papers of the 29th European Biomass Conference - Setting the course for a biobased economy
Imprint:	2021
Physical Description:	1132-1139
Conference:	The 29th European Biomass Conference - EUBCE 2021, Online (Italy), 2021-04-26 - 2021-04-29
Document Type:	Contribution to a book Contribution to a conference proceedings
Research Program:	Bioeconomy Science Center Societally Feasible Transformation Pathways
Link:	OpenAccess
	Publikationsportal JuSER

Please use the identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/28549 in citations.

Related to the development of production processes for microbial bio-based surfactants like rhamnolipids and mannosylerythritol lipids a sustainability assessment was carried out within the project Bio². Developments at lab-scale and technical scale built the base for an industrial design scenario of different process chains, whereby exemplary co-products of sugar beet processing were used as substrates. Environmental impacts, economic issues and social risks of defined process chains allowed a classification of different microbial surfactant production options by the assessment of the three dimensions of sustainability. The generated results work as an indicator for further development, provide insights to potential hotspots and allow the estimation of future market positions.