Biorefineries – Industrial Processes and Products: Status Quo and Future Directions

A sustainable economical growth requires safe resources of raw materials for industrial production. Today′s most frequently used industrial raw material, petroleum, is neither sustainable, nor environmentally friendly. Biorefineries combine the necessary technologies of the biological raw materials with those of chemical intermediates and final products.
This is the first book dedicated to biorefineries and biobased industrial technologies. This 2–volume set gives a comprehensive survey of technological principles of biorefineries, green processes and plants, current and forthcoming biobased product lines, as well as the economic aspects.
From the contents:
∗ Background
∗ Biorefinery Systems
∗ Green Biorefinery
∗ Lignocellulose Feedstock Biorefinery
∗ Whole Crop Biorefinery
∗ Fuel oriented Biorefineries
∗ Biobased Feedstocks and Biomass Production
∗ Wet and Dry Fractionation
∗ Industrial Bioconversion
∗ Biobased Product Lines and Product Family Trees
∗ Carbohydrate Lines
∗ Lignin Lines
∗ Protein Lines
∗ Biobased Fats and Oils
∗ Syngas Platform and Gasification Route
∗ Biobased Products and Materials
∗ Biobased Basic Chemicals
∗ Biobased Polymers and Materials
∗ Biobased (Industrial) Economy and Commercialization
∗ Biobased Industry and Sustainability


Spis treści:
BACKGROUND AND OUTLINE –
PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTALS
Biorefinery Systems –
An Overview
Biomass Refining Global Impact –
The Biobased Economy of the 21st Century
Development of Biorefineries –
Technical and Economic Considerations
Biorefineries for the Chemical Industry –
A Dutch Point of View
BIOREFINERY SYSTEMS
The Lignocellulosic Biorefinery –
A Strategy for Returning to a Sustainable Source of Fuels and Industri al Organic Chemicals
Lignocellulosic Feedstock Biorefinery: History and Plant Development for Biomass Hydrolysis
The Biofine Process –
Production of Levulinic Acid, Furfural, and Formic Acid from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks
A Whole Crop Biorefinery System: A Closed System for the Manufacture of Non–food Products from Cereals
Iogen′s Demonstration Process for Producing Ethanol from Cellulosic Biomass
Sugar–based Biorefinery –
Technology for Integrated Production of Poly(3–hydroxybutyrate), Sugar, and Ethanol
Biomass Refineries Based on Hybrid Thermochemical–Biological Processing –
An
The Green Biorefiner Concept –
Fundamentals and Potential
Plant Juice in the Biorefinery –
Use of Plant Juice as Fermentation Medium
BIOMASS PRODUCTION AND PRIMARY BIOREFINERIES
Biomass Commercialization and Agriculture Residue Collection
The Corn Wet Milling and Corn Dry Milling Industry –
A Base for Biorefinery Technology Developments
BIOMASS CONVERSION: PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Enzymes for Biorefineries
Biocatalytic and Catalytic Routes for the Production of Bulk and Fine Chemicals from Renewable Resources
BIOBASED PRODUCT FAMILY TREES
The Key Sugars of Biomass: Availability, Present Non–Food Uses and Potential Future Development Lines
Industrial Starch Platform –
Status quo of Production, Modification and Application
Lignocellulose–based Chemical Products and Product Family Trees
Lignin Chemistry and its Role in Biomass Conversion
Industrial Lignin Production and Applications
Towards Integration of Biorefinery and Microbial Amino Acid Production
Protein–based Polymers: Mechanistic Foundations for Bioproduction and Engineering
New Syntheses with Oils and Fats as Renewable Raw Materials for the Chemical Industry
Industrial Development and Application of Biobased Oleochemicals
Phytochemicals, Dyes, and Pigments in the Biorefinery Context
Adding Color to Green Chemistry? An Overview of the Fundamentals and Potential of Chlorophylls
BIOBASED INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, MATERIALS AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Industrial Chemicals from Biomass –
Industrial Concepts
Succinic Acid –
A Model Building Block for Chemical Production from Renewable Resources
Polylactic Acid from Renewable Resources
Biobased Consumer Products for Cosmetics
BIOBASED INDUSTRY: ECONOMY, COMMERCIALIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Industrial Biotech –
Setting Conditions to Capitalize on the Economic Potential

Nota biograficzna:
Birgit Kamm studied chemistry at the Technical University of Merseburg, Germany where she obtained her Diploma in 1986, and received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1991 at the Institute of Organic Chemistry (with Prof. M. Schulz and Prof. E. Fanghanel). After receiving a grant from the German Federal Environmental Foundation in 1997, she joined the Institute of Chemistry (with Prof. E. Kleinpeter and Prof. M.G. Peter), University of Potsdam, where she fi nished her Habilitation in Organic Chemistry in 2005. She founded the Biorefinery Association
Berlin–Brandenburg, Germany, in 1997. Since 1998 she has been a member of the board of the Research Institute of Bioactive Polymer Systems (biopos e.V.), and since 2001 she has been scientific director of this institute.
Patrick Gruber is currently President and CEO of Outlast Technologies. He is the former Vice President and Chief Technology Offi cer at NatureWorks LLC (formerly Cargill Dow LLC), USA. He has over 40 patents to his name and has repeatedly won top awards for his work in chemicals made from renewable resources, including the Discovery Award for Environmental Innovation awarded by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, the US Presidential Green Chemistry Award, and the US Department of Energy Technology of the Year Award 2001, together with Cargi ll Dow Inc., for the pioneering NatureWorks PLA project. He has served on the Advisory Board to the Energy Futures Coalition, The DOE/USDA Biomass Federal Advisory Board, and several other boards.
Michael Kamm studied organic chemistry at the Technical University of Merseburg, Germany, where he graduated with his Diploma. After a research assistantship in Halle–Wittenberg he moved to Potsdam University, co–founded the research institute biopos e.V. where he was involved in the material utilization of renewable raw materials. Since the foundation of biorefinery.de GmbH in 2001 he was President of this company with its headquarter in Potsdam, Germany. He authored and co–authored more than 60 scientific publications and is the holder of 15 international patents.

Okładka tylna:
A sustainable economical growth requires safe resources of raw materials for industrial production. Today′s most frequently used industrial raw material, petroleum, is neither sustainable, nor environmentally friendly. Biorefineries combine the necessary technologies of the biological raw materials with those of chemical intermediates and final products.
This is the first book dedicated to biorefineries and biobased industrial technologies. This 2–volume set gives a comprehensive survey of technological principles of biorefineries, green processes and plants, current and forthcoming biobased product lines, as well as the economic aspects.
From the contents:
∗ Background
∗ Biorefinery Systems
∗ Green Biorefinery
∗ Lignocellulose Feedstock Biorefinery
∗ Whole Crop Biorefinery
∗ Fuel oriented Biorefineries
∗ Biobased Feedstocks and Biomass Production
∗ Wet and Dry Fractionation
∗ Industrial Bioconversion
∗ Biobased Product Lines and Product Family Trees
∗ Carbohydrate Lines
∗ Lignin Lines
∗ Protein Lines
∗ Biobase d Fats and Oils
∗ Syngas Platform and Gasification Route
∗ Biobased Products and Materials
∗ Biobased Basic Chemicals
∗ Biobased Polymers and Materials
∗ Biobased (Industrial) Economy and Commercialization
∗ Biobased Industry and Sustainability