biorefinery

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ refinery.

Noun

biorefinery (countable and uncountable, plural biorefineries)

  1. (countable) A facility that carries out coproduction of a range of biologically-based products (food, feed, materials, chemicals) and energy (fuels, power, heat) from biomass
  2. (uncountable) The coproduction process itself
    Synonym: biorefining


Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.