162444 20251017144630.0 doi 10.3390/su17156808 sideral 145044 ART-2025-145044 eng Gomez Palmero, Maider Starch Valorisation as Biorefinery Concept Integrated by an Agro-Industry Case Study to Improve Sustainability 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The production of bio-based products for different purposes has become an increasingly common strategy over the last few decades, both in Europe and worldwide. This trend seeks to contribute to mitigating the impacts associated with climate change and to cope with the ambitious objectives established at European level. Over recent decades, agro-industries have shown significant potential as biomass suppliers, triggering the development of robust logistical supply chains and the valorization of by-products to obtain bio-based products that can be marketed at competitive prices. However, this transformation may, in some cases, involve restructuring traditional business model to incorporate the biorefinery concept. In this sense, the first step in developing a bio-based value chain involves assessing the resource’s availability and characterizing the feedstock to select the valorization pathway and the bio-application with the greatest potential. The paper incorporates inputs from a case study on PATURPAT, a company commercializing a wide range of ready-prepared potato products, which has commissioned a starch extraction facility to process the rejected pieces of potatoes and water from the process to obtain starch that can be further valorized for different bio-applications. This study aims to comprehensively review current trends and frameworks for potatoes processing agro-industries and define the most suitable bio-applications to target, as well as identify opportunities and challenges. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/review info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Carrasco, Ana de la Sen, Paula Mainar-Toledo, María Dolores Ascaso Malo, Sonia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4202-9437 Royo Herrer, Francisco Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4631-6994 5005 555 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ing.Quím.Tecnol.Med.Amb. Área Ingeniería Química 5004 590 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Mecánica Área Máquinas y Motores Térmi. 17, 15 (2025), 6808 [17 pp.] Sustainability (Basel) Sustainability (Switzerland) 2071-1050 1338466 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162444/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2477179 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162444/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162444 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:26:04 ARTICLE