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Biorefineries - Industrial Processes and Products
Status Quo and Future Directions
ISBN/EAN: 9783527329533
Umbreit-Nr.: 1266754
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: XLVI, 903 S., 301 s/w Illustr., 107 s/w Tab., 408
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 27.07.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
- Kurztext
- 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 book 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
- Autorenportrait
- 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. Fanghänel). 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 BerlinBrandenburg, 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 Cargill 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.