Applications of Biomass in Biofuel

*Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges*

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**1. Introduction**

**Chapter 5**

**Abstract**

Biorefinery

*José de Jesús Esparza-Claudio* 

*and Elizabeth Quintana-Rodríguez*

Agro-Industrial Waste

Revalorization: The Growing

*Flora Beltrán-Ramírez, Domancar Orona-Tamayo,* 

solves an environmental problem, and generates additional income.

**Keywords:** bioenergy, biocomposites, bioactive peptides, biocompounds,

Agro-industrial residues provide an enormous potential to generate sustainable products and bioenergy. An integrated biorefinery is turning into a promising solution with multiple outputs (biofuels, bioactive biocompounds, and biomaterials). Most of the residues generated are intended for landfill or are disposed in an uncontrolled way, causing environmental damage and economic loss. For that reason, it is necessary to develop a sustainable management of them. An integral waste management is proposed in the concept of circular economy to exploit renewable resources.

Circular economy is based on the concept of biorefinery and the approach to

*Ivette Cornejo-Corona, José Luz Nicacio González-Cervantes,* 

Agro-industrial residues have been the spotlight of different researches worldwide, due to some of their constituents being raw material to generate a diversified variety of industrial products. Nowadays, this situation keeps prevailing and will increase continuously in the future. In the agroindustry, diverse biomasses are subjected to distinct unit processes for providing value to different waste materials from agriculture, food processing, and alcoholic industries. In this chapter, we reported an updated survey of different renewable organic materials that including agricultural wastes can be converted to bioenergy. Similarly, these wastes encrypt different bioactive compounds with an excellent nutraceutical functions and with high adding value. In addition, biocomposites can be elaborated using fibers from wastes with a wide variety of applications in the automotive and packaging industry. Vinasses derived from tequila industry in Mexico represent a lot of potential to extract biocompounds, and we propose a process to obtain them. A perspective of market trend is mentioned in this chapter for compounds derived from agro-industrial wastes. Adding value to those agro-industrial wastes can provide the reduction of negative impact emission, discharge, or disposal,

**Chapter 5**
