BIOREFINERY PLATFORMS


IEA Bioenergy Task 42 has developed a classification scheme to describe different biorefineries. The classification of a biorefinery consists of the following features: platforms, feedstocks, products and processes. With the combination of these features, different biorefinery configurations can be described and named in a consistent manner. What are these platforms recognized as pillars of that biorefinery classification?

Platform concept
Platforms are intermediates which link feedstocks and final marketable products. The platform concept is similar to that used in the petrochemical industry, where the crude oil is fractionated into a large number of intermediates that are further processed to final energy and chemical products. Within the biorefinery, the feedstocks are typically fractionated into a number of key intermediates. These intermediates in a platform is not necessarily a single well-defined compound, but a mixture of compounds of varying purity. Several feedstocks can lead to the same platform and a biorefinery can include several platforms.

Main biorefinery platforms 
Follow the links for further information about each platform.

- Biobased hydrogen (coming soon)





- Carbon dioxide (coming soon)

- Fibre (coming soon)


- Oils.

- Proteins (coming soon)



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