New Sustainable Banana Value Chain: Waste Valuation toward a Circular Bioeconomy

• Published in: Energies (Basel) Vol. 16; no. 8; p. 3453
• Main Authors: Krungkaew, Samatcha, Hülsemann, Benedikt, Kingphadung, Kanokwan, Mahayothee, Busarakorn, Oechsner, Hans, Müller, Joachim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.04.2023
• Subjects: Agricultural economics; agricultural residue; Agriculture; anaerobic digestion; Bananas; Biogas; Biomass energy; circular economy; closed loop supply chain; Fruits; Liquefied petroleum gas; Liquefied petroleum gas industry; mathematical model; Maximization; Prices and rates; Profits; Refuse as fuel; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Trees; Thailand

According to the needs of sustainability, a new sustainable banana chip value chain, which is a combination of the traditional banana chip value chain and the banana waste value chain, was designed. Scenarios were created assuming that an anaerobic digester would be implemented to produce biogas—whi...