20.500.12556/DKUM-87526 Life Cycle Assessment of Pilot-Scale Bio-Refining of Invasive Japanese Knotweed Alien Plant towards Bio-Based Bioactive Compounds Japanese knotweed is an invasive alien plant species with characteristic rapid expansion in Europe and North America and resistance to extermination. It displaces autochthonous biodiversity and causes major damage to infrastructure, thus causing global ecological and economic damage. The Japanese knotweed plant is usually eradicated using various chemical, biological, or mechanical techniques, which at a large scale include heavy equipment, usually followed by incineration. Therefore, excavation is preferred to eradication techniques, and as a biomass waste recovery method due to the extraction of high-value biocompounds. This is supported by the fact that the Japanese knotweed possesses various bioactive compounds with beneficial effects on human health. Its rhizome bark extract produces strong and stable antioxidant activity over time, as well as apoptotic, antibacterial, and other beneficial activities. In this work, an environmental impact assessment, including greenhouse gas footprint, acidification, eutrophication, and ecotoxicity for extraction route of the Japanese knotweed rhizome bark, is performed. A comparative case study between the lab-based and proposed pilot-scale production of active added-value extract was evaluated. The results show the pilot-scale production exhibits lower environmental burdens, mainly due to greater electricity requirements for the lab-scale alternative. Japanese knotweed rhizome bark extract invasive alien plant species bioactive compounds lab-scale pilot-scale life cycle assessment (LCA) environmental burden assessment bioaktivne spojine japonski dresnik ekstrakti true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes Članek v reviji 2024-03-19 15:50:52 2024-03-19 16:10:50 2024-05-10 09:13:24 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 1-14 Št. 5, št. članka 1393 Letn. 11 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-02-28 2023-04-27 2023-05-04 66.02 151704835 10.3390/pr11051393 2227-9717 Hren-2023-Life_Cycle_Assessment_of_Pilot-Scale.pdf Hren-2023-Life_Cycle_Assessment_of_Pilot-Scale.pdf 1 0141F7144F0EB1340C14BF5BFBF6990A 8be50b5ebffc7bd097baa473bf3d347f8eab00e3aba4d0032ada483fe5add777 b8c37ef2-e602-11ee-8d81-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=177098 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/11/5/1393 0 c652d6a9-e602-11ee-8d81-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=177099 Fakulteta za kemijo in kemijsko tehnologijo 0 0 0