{"title":"Characterization of humic substances recovered from the sewage sludge and validity of their removal from this waste","authors":"Justyna Michalska, Jolanta Turek-Szytow, Agnieszka Dudło, Joanna Surmacz-Górska","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Being an inevitable byproduct of the operation of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), sewage sludge may cause serious environmental problems. Thus, the proper treatment and management of such waste is currently a challenge of great importance. Due to the significant concentration of various contaminants, the direct application of sewage sludge in agriculture is often limited. Nevertheless, this waste is rich in valuable compounds, among which humic substances (HS) are recognized to be one of the most important. A plethora of studies have shown the extensive application potential of HS. However, literature data also evidenced that HS may constitute obstacles for efficient wastewater treatment and sewage sludge management. The current review article discusses the fate of HS in WWTPs. Moreover, the necessity of removing and recovering such compounds from wastewater treatment systems was highlighted. Attention was also drawn to the beneficial features of humic compounds and avenues for their various possible applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667041022000040/pdfft?md5=07f83d9374603951eedd6b7d2d1cc7e9&pid=1-s2.0-S2667041022000040-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83989138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing Business Models for the Bioeconomy: What are the major challenges?","authors":"Stefanie Bröring , Ana Vanacker","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the context of mitigating climate change by means of abandoning fossil resources by developing new clean technologies, the bioeconomy, a concept defined by the seminal work of Christian Patermann, has gained tremendous interest. Although designing an appropriate business model for a novel bio-based technology is crucial for the commercialization and thus transition towards the bioeconomy, research on business models in the context of the bioeconomy is still scarce. However, the particularities of the bioeconomy such as the complex knowledge base, fragmented policy schemes, and diverse innovation types cause challenges for the design of business models. Against this backdrop, we aim to fill this gap by conceptualizing three generic business model types specific to the bioeconomy, namely 1) new bio-based products, 2) new bio-based processes, and 3) integrated (bio-based) services as well as identifying their most characteristic challenges. To this end, we review existing literature on business models in the bioeconomy and categorize challenges and their implications for business models. In total, this is the first approach to conceptualize business model types specifically for the bioeconomy contributing to defining a clearer research agenda as well as guiding business model design in the context of bioeconomy-specific challenges.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100032"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667041022000106/pdfft?md5=bc92176420670bac18d69b55f54848f0&pid=1-s2.0-S2667041022000106-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91624038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian Patermann and the bioeconomy: A testimony of gratitude on his 80th anniversary","authors":"A. Aguilar, T. Twardowski","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"397 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88971254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short contributions dedicated to Dr. Christian Patermann in his 80th anniversary","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100043"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667041022000210/pdfft?md5=5d8ca4e9ebd010423c45ca3b4843d9b4&pid=1-s2.0-S2667041022000210-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89999252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioeconomy - from the Cologne paper to concepts for a global strategy","authors":"Christine Lang","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper describes the role of the bioeconomy concept started in the Cologne paper and initiated by Christian Patermann for bioeconomy strategies in Germany and around the world. Patermann is and has been an important actor and a highly appreciated colleague in the first German Bioeconomy Council and the International Advisory Council on Global Bioeconomy (IACGB). IACGB is a think tank with the mission to promote the Global Bioeconomy as a sustainable and future looking movement for the benefit of planet and people. The Global Bioeconomy Summits (GBS) series initiated in 2015 by the German Bioeconomy Council and perpetuated by the IACGB has become a truly global meeting and conference event that gathers bioeconomy experts and high level politicians from all areas and hemispheres. The IACGB provides leadership for setting the themes of GBS. Communiques and reports on national strategies are signature outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100038"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667041022000167/pdfft?md5=d13737de0ec91e2511b76386831740f2&pid=1-s2.0-S2667041022000167-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91623640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short contributions dedicated to Dr. Christian Patermann in his 80th anniversary","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89528487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exogenous and endogenous drivers of bioeconomy and science diplomacy","authors":"Joachim von Braun","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bioeconomy advanced rapidly worldwide as a concept and as an important element of transformative economic strategies. This mini-review asks, what were the exogenous and the endogenous drivers? Bioeconomy is exogenously driven by recent advances in basic science facilitating bio-product innovations, and by the increasingly recognized need to address the ecological problems of the Anthropocene. Bioeconomy is endogenously driven for instance by established evidence of opportunities in bioeconomy that leads to investments, by strategic science policy getting proactively engaged, and by scale and network effects. For these endogenous drivers, people do matter, in particular visionary policy makers, corporate investors, scientists, and strategists. Christian Patermann played a key role among these.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100029"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667041022000076/pdfft?md5=3114e3f8b07ab9ce1093b690badd2ce6&pid=1-s2.0-S2667041022000076-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89999193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The four Fs of the knowledge-based BioEconomy – A homage to Christian Patermann","authors":"Víctor de Lorenzo","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Every discourse about the knowledge-based BioEconomy (KBBE) leads to identification of specific products that can be manufactured through advanced biology-based processes in a fashion more environmentally-friendly, more sustainable and more economically appealing than earlier procedures. Such products can be grouped in at least four types of tangible goods, the reference names of each of which—as entertained by Christian Patermann—starting by an F: food, feed, fuel, fibre. Since the first elaborations of the KBBE to the present time, major conceptual developments and scientific technologies have impacted the biotechnological practices and endowed the four Fs with possibilities that were not anticipated at the time. New scenarios have also emerged—paramount among which is climate crisis. In this context, what started as a strategy to backup the existing industrial system might end up being a phenomenal tool for a much needed revision of our mutuality with the natural world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100035"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667041022000131/pdfft?md5=7a0fab652b0c206b6255bae462ca6a76&pid=1-s2.0-S2667041022000131-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91623641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edita Garskaite , Maria M. Estevez , Alexandra Byström , Michael Försth , Zivile Stankeviciute , Denis Sokol , Matthew Steele , Dick Sandberg
{"title":"Studying the application of fish-farming net-cleaning waste as fire-retardant for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sapwood","authors":"Edita Garskaite , Maria M. Estevez , Alexandra Byström , Michael Försth , Zivile Stankeviciute , Denis Sokol , Matthew Steele , Dick Sandberg","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Optimising the exploitation of available waste resources for the recovery of their intrinsic value will be vital in the future circular economy society. Recovery of energy, nutrients and metals from waste streams is in focus today. This study aimed to evaluate the use of an aquaculture waste, i.e. the dried-solid waste discharge that generates by cleaning the fishing-nets, as a potential fire-retardancy promoter for Scots pine sapwood. As-received dried-solid waste from salmon-farming was calcined at different temperatures to evaluate material phase transformation and achieve homogeneous phase distribution. Thermal degradation of waste powders was studied by TG-FTIR gas analysis when annealing the material to temperatures up to 800°C, and the crystallinity, phase composition, morphology, elemental composition and particle sizes of as-received and calcined-waste materials at different temperatures were evaluated by XRD, FTIR, SEM/EDS, and TEM analyses. The flammability studies using cone calorimeter of Scots pine sapwood blocks treated with as-received and processed material is also reported and discussed. Results were promising, indicating that the aquaculture waste could be employed as an effective fire-retardant. The possibility of value-creation from waste discharges is enforced in this study so to promote the way towards waste valorisation and circular economy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667041022000039/pdfft?md5=005e2fa1d9ee782b9e9d4ac76f3d077f&pid=1-s2.0-S2667041022000039-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91624040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A readiness level framework for sustainable circular bioeconomy","authors":"Nicholas M. Holden","doi":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bioeconomy is proposed as a means of transitioning from the ‘take-make-use-waste’ paradigm of the fossil resource economy to a sustainable future. The integration of bioeconomy with circular economy principles is needed to decouple environmental impact from consumption. A business operating within a sustainable circular bioeconomy must function within environmental and social limits, and be economically viable, so entrepreneurs need a means of managing innovation in this context. A stage-gate approach is proposed that combines technology, innovation, and social readiness level frameworks with life cycle thinking to create an evidence-driven understanding of a new business innovation. At each stage-gate, questions are answered, using data obtainable by any business. Integrating stage-gated readiness level thinking with conventional innovation supports to guide entrepreneurs towards successful innovations for sustainable circular bioeconomy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100394,"journal":{"name":"EFB Bioeconomy Journal","volume":"2 ","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266704102200009X/pdfft?md5=20b8e7b8994d2e6d44b2c076cbc5561e&pid=1-s2.0-S266704102200009X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79701929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}