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biovalorization

biovalorization noun: the conversion of waste biomass into valuable chemicals.

Noun

biovalorization (uncountable)

  1. The conversion of waste biomass into valuable chemicals.
    • The biovalorization of agri-food wastes includes fermentation processes, including submerged (SmF) or solid-state fermentation (SSF) based on wild micro-organisms' strain, as well as the use of modified microorganisms (by heterologous expression, for example).2007, Gustavo Molina, Minaxi Sharma, Rachid Benhida, Microbial Bioprocessing of Agri-food Wastes: Bioactive Molecules
    • However, there is dearth of literature which discusses about the biovalorization of agro-industrial wastes into specialty biochemicals.2013, Satinder Kaur Brar, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals, page vii

Origin of biovalorization

From bio- + valorization.

Questions about biovalorization

What does biovalorization mean?
Biovalorization means the conversion of waste biomass into valuable chemicals.
What part of speech is biovalorization?
Biovalorization is a noun.

Words near biovalorization in the dictionary

  1. biounit
  2. biounits
  3. biouptake
  4. bioutilization
  5. bioval
  6. biovalorization
  7. biovalorize
  8. biovalorized
  9. biovalorizes
  10. biovalorizing
  11. biovar

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