Glossary
Wear Protection and Sustainability. An Expert Study by the German Society for Tribolgy

Lost assets

Lost or abandoned assets are assets that have become prematurely obsolete or no longer provide added value, and therefore need to be depreciated. They can often arise as a result of climate change countermeasures. Derelict assets require increased capital for new investments.

Bio-olefin

Bioolefins can be extracted from biomass using biomass-liquid thermochemical processes or by β-farnesene directly from sugar, lignocellulose or starch using genetically modified yeast or botryococci from algae (see