ABSTRACT
This chapter comprises a review of green biorenery systems, including processing steps, new technologies being developed, and future prospects for bioproducts. Biorening is dened as “a processing and conversion facility that efciently separates its biomass raw materials into individual components and converts these components into marketplace products, including biofuels, biopower, and conventional and new bioproducts” (Anon, 2002). During the past decade, European research groups have been investigating the biorening of green biomass including ryegrass, clover, and lucerne (Andersen and Kiel, 2000; Grass, 2004; Kromus et al., 2004; Mandl, 2010; Venus, 2006, 2009; Lyko et al., 2009). These initiatives have assisted in the successful emergence of green bioreneries in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. This sector will be inuenced by factors, such as the availability of green or ensiled biomass, product range, conversion process employed, efcient utilization of the energy content of biomass, and production capacity (Brown, 2007).
