Room: Poster Area
Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
Session code 2AV.5
Life cycle insights for a circular bioeconomy: technologies, waste valorisation, and policy
Multifunctionality Approach in Biorefinery LCAs: the GoodByO Case Study
Short Introductive summary
The present work was performed in the GoodByO project (funded by European Union) framework, as part of a broader work section aiming to perform the environmental and techno-economical assessment of the proposed process. The GoodByO process consists of an integrated biorefinery; generally, integrated biorefineries are able to convert biomass feedstocks into multiple products, ranging from biofuels and energy to chemicals, posing a challenge in defining the functional unit of the study but also in defining a proper approach to the process multifunctionality. The present work thus aims at identifying the best approach for the GoodByO process multifunctionality, based on existing literature debate and addressing specific characteristics and novelty of the GoodByO process. In particular, three different allocation approaches to multifunctionality were addressed: economic allocation, mass allocation, and hybrid mass-energy allocation and each approach results were discussed.
Presenter
Francesco BARRACCO
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento Energia (DENERG), ITALY
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Co-authors:
K. Zayer Kabeh, Politecnico di Torino, ITALY
M. Prussi, Politecnico di Torino, ITALY
D. Chiaramonti, Politecnico di Torino, ITALY
Session reference: 2AV.5.10