TY - JOUR

T1 - Green and Sustainable Separation of Natural Products from Agro-Industrial Waste

T2 - Challenges, Potentialities, and Perspectives on Emerging Approaches

AU - Zuin, Vânia G.

AU - Ramin, Luize Z.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018, The Author(s).

PY - 2018/2/1

Y1 - 2018/2/1

N2 - New generations of biorefinery combine innovative biomass waste resources from different origins, chemical extraction and/or synthesis of biomaterials, biofuels, and bioenergy via green and sustainable processes. From the very beginning, identifying and evaluating all potentially high value-added chemicals that could be removed from available renewable feedstocks requires robust, efficient, selective, reproducible, and benign analytical approaches. With this in mind, green and sustainable separation of natural products from agro-industrial waste is clearly attractive considering both socio-environmental and economic aspects. In this paper, the concepts of green and sustainable separation of natural products will be discussed, highlighting the main studies conducted on this topic over the last 10 years. The principal analytical techniques (such as solvent, microwave, ultrasound, and supercritical treatments), by-products (e.g., citrus, coffee, corn, and sugarcane waste) and target compounds (polyphenols, proteins, essential oils, etc.) will be presented, including the emerging green and sustainable separation approaches towards bioeconomy and circular economy contexts.

AB - New generations of biorefinery combine innovative biomass waste resources from different origins, chemical extraction and/or synthesis of biomaterials, biofuels, and bioenergy via green and sustainable processes. From the very beginning, identifying and evaluating all potentially high value-added chemicals that could be removed from available renewable feedstocks requires robust, efficient, selective, reproducible, and benign analytical approaches. With this in mind, green and sustainable separation of natural products from agro-industrial waste is clearly attractive considering both socio-environmental and economic aspects. In this paper, the concepts of green and sustainable separation of natural products will be discussed, highlighting the main studies conducted on this topic over the last 10 years. The principal analytical techniques (such as solvent, microwave, ultrasound, and supercritical treatments), by-products (e.g., citrus, coffee, corn, and sugarcane waste) and target compounds (polyphenols, proteins, essential oils, etc.) will be presented, including the emerging green and sustainable separation approaches towards bioeconomy and circular economy contexts.

KW - Bioeconomy and circular economy

KW - Biomass waste

KW - Biorefinery

KW - Green analytical techniques

KW - Green and sustainable extraction

KW - Sustainable separation

KW - Chemistry

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b38d7ccd-e3b0-3722-a4c6-26c0c2350463/

U2 - 10.1007/s41061-017-0182-z

DO - 10.1007/s41061-017-0182-z

M3 - Scientific review articles

C2 - 29344754

AN - SCOPUS:85040734600

VL - 376

JO - Topics in Current Chemistry

JF - Topics in Current Chemistry

SN - 2365-0869

IS - 1

M1 - 3

ER -