Room: Yangtze 1
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
Session code 3BO.15
Integrated biorefineries processes
Harvest and Processing Effects on Grassland Biomass in a Demonstration-Scale Biorefinery
Short Introductive summary
A demonstration-scale green biorefinery was established at Aarhus University, campus Viborg (Denmark) in 2019. The facility was designed to produce a leaf protein concentrate (LPC) from multiple green biomass sources while valorizing the side streams. The process consists of a mechanical pressing and wet fractionation stage, in which the harvested biomass is separated into the fiber and a protein-rich green juice (GJ). The GJ is subsequently subjected to heat precipitation followed by centrifugation, resulting in LPC and BJ. In this study, the influence of harvest timing and processing parameters on LPC extraction from grass–clover biomass was evaluated. The experimental design included two grass–clover mixtures, four harvest times throughout the season, plant maturity at each harvest, two mechanical pressing methods, and different GJ storage durations before heat precipitation.
Presenter
Thalles ANDRADE
Aarhus University, Biological and Chemical Engineering Dpt., DENMARK
Presenter's biography
Assistant Professor in the Green Biorefining Technologies group at the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark. Working on process modeling and simulation of biorefineries, and activities connected to the green biorefinery demonstration-scale platform.
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Co-authors:
M.F. Sørensen, Aarhus University, DENMARK
M. Ambye-Jensen, Aarhus University, DENMARK
Session reference: 3BO.15.3