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.

Contents

Volume 1

1. Biorefinery Systems - An Overview
2. Biomass Refining Global Impact - The Biobased Economy of the 21st Century
3. Development of Biorefineries - Technical and Economic Considerations
4. Biorefineries for the Chemical Industry - A Dutch Point of View
5. The Lignocellulosic Biorefinery - A Strategy for Returning to a Sustainable Source of Fuels and Industrial Organic Chemicals
6. Lignocellulosic Feedstock Biorefinery: History and Plant Development for Biomass Hydrolysis
7. The Biofine Process - Production of Levulinic Acid, Furfural, and Formic Acid from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks
8. A Whole Crop Biorefinery System: A Closed System for the Manufacture of Non-food Products from Cereals
9. Iogen's Demonstration Process for Producing Ethanol from Cellulosic Biomass
10. Sugar-based Biorefinery - Technology for Integrated Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), Sugar, and Ethanol
11. Biomass Refineries Based on Hybrid Thermochemical- Biological Processing - An Overview
12. The Green Biorefiner Concept - Fundamentals and Potential
13. Plant Juice in the Biorefinery - Use of Plant Juice as Fermentation Medium
14. Biomass Commercialization and Agriculture Residue Collection
15. The Corn Wet Milling and Corn Dry Milling Industry - A Base for Biorefinery Technology Developments
16. Enzymes for Biorefineries
17. Biocatalytic and Catalytic Routes for the Production of Bulk and Fine Chemicals from Renewable Resources

Index

Volume 2

1. The Key Signs of Biomass: Availability, Present Non-Food Uses and Potential Future Development Lines
2. Industrial Starch Platform - Status quo of Production, Modification and Application
3. Lignocellulose-based Chemical Products and Product Family Trees
4. Lignin Chemistry and its Role in Biomass Conversion
5. Industrial Lignin Production and Applications
6. Towards Integration of Biorefinery and Microbial Amino Acid Production
7. Protein-based Polymers: Mechanistic Foundations for Bioproduction and Engineering
8. Biobased Fats (Lipids) and Oils
9. New Syntheses with Oils and Fats as Renewable Raw Materials for the Chemical Industry
10. Industrial Development and Application of Biobased Oleochemicals
11. Phytochemicals, Dyes, and Pigments in the Biorefinery Context
12. Adding Color to Green Chemistry? An Overview of the Fundamentals and Potential of Chlorophylls
13. Industrial Chemicals from Biomass - Industrial Concepts
14. Succinic Acid - A Model Building Block for Chemical Production from Renewable Resources
15. Polylactic Acid from Renewable Resources
16. Biobased Consumer Products for Cosmetics
17. Industrial Biotech - Setting Conditions to Capitalize on the Economic Potential

Index

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