Platform Chemical Biorefinery: Future Green Chemistry

INDICE: Chapter 1. Platform chemicals - significance and need 1.1. Classification of platform chemicals 1.2. Platform chemical - current global market 1.3. Recent advances in platform chemical process engineering 1.4. Challenges and future of the industry Chapter 2. Biorefinery- general overview 2.1. Biorefinery- a re-emerging concept 2.2. Biorefinery and GHG emission reduction 2.3. Biorefinery and chemical/energy security 2.4. Biorefinery for sustainable development Chapter 3. Petroleum versus biorefinery based platform chemicals 3.1. Feedstock availability 3.2. Product range and process cost 3.3. Nature and extent of environmental pollution 3.4. Sustainability Chapter 4. Life cycle analysis of potential substrates of sustainable biorefinery 4.1. Ligno-cellulosic biomass from agriculture and forest 4.2. Algae and fungi 4.3. Industrial organic waste 4.4. Municipal wastewater and solid waste 4.5. Sludge from wastewater treatment plants Chapter 5. Role of industrial biotechnology and chemical conversion in plateform chemical biorefinery 5.1. Advantages of enzymatic and microbial bioconversion of renewable feedstock 5.2. Ecofriendly biorefinery practice and its possible negative effect on marketability of final product 5.3. Importance of chemical conversion in biorefinery 5.4. Environmental concerns of chemical conversion processes 5.5. Future of biorefinery- controlled application of chemical conversion and industrial biotechnology 5.6. Economic aspect of chemical and bioconversion processes used in biorefinery   Chapter 6. Propylene glycol - an industrially important C3 platform chemical 6.1. Commercial application of propylene 6.2. Global propylene market- an overview 6.3. A comparative evaluation of different methods used for propylene production 6.4. Sustainable propylene production and challenges Chapter 7. 3-hydroxypropanoic acid production from renewable resources and its commercial significance 7.1. Importance of 3-hydroxypropanoic acid 7.2. Biotechnological production of 3-hydroxypropanoic acid 7.3.  Potential feedstock for 3-hydroxypropanoic acid production 7.4.  Production of biodegradable polymer using 3-hydroxypropanoic acid Chapter 8. Butyric acid - a platform chemical for biofuel and high value biochemicals 8.1. Butyric acid production from renewable materials 8.2. Recent developments in  butyric acid downstream processing 8.3.  Biofuel production by chemical conversion of butyric acid- challenges and opportunities 8.4.  Utilization of butyric acid as a raw material for the production of different high value biochemicals Chapter 9. Fumaric acid - biotechnological production of the platform chemical by Rhizopus oryzae 9.1. Applications of fumaric acid in chemical industries 9.2. Fumeric acid as platform chemical for biomedical application 9.3.  Rhizopus oryzae and its genetic modifications for enhanced fumaric acid production 9.4.  Recent developments in fumaric acid downstream processing 9.5.  Global market of bio-based fumaric acid Chapter 10. Malic and succinic acid - potential C4 platform chemicals for polymer and biodegradable plastic production 10.1. Different methods of malic acid production 10.2. Malic acid production from renewable materials- commercial potential 10.3.  Application of malic acid for the production of renewable polymers 10.4.  Succinic acid bioproduction 10.5.  Succinic acid and its commercial potential for biodegradable plastic production Chapter 11. Potential application of renewable itaconic acid for the synthesis of 3-methyltetrahydrofuran 11.1. Itaconic acid 11.2. Itaconic acid bioproduction-potential feedstock 11.3.  3-methyltetrahydrofuran- a potential biofuel 11.4.  Synthesis of 3-methyltetrahydrofuran using Itaconic acid Chapter 12. Production of renewable C5 platform chemicals and potential applications 12.1. Xylitol 12.2. Levulinic acid 12.3.  Glutamic acid Chapter 13. Sorbitol production from biomass and its global market 13.1. Sorbitol and its major applications 13.2. A comparative evaluation of different renewable feedstock used for sorbitol production 13.3.  Downstream processing of sorbitol 13.4.  An overview of global production and market of sorbitol Chapter 14. Sugar derived industrially important C6 platform chemicals 14.1. Glucaric acid 14.2. 2,5 furan dicarboxylic acid 14.3. Others Chapter 15. Production of drop in and novel bio-based platform chemicals  15.1. Possibility and challenges of drop in chemicals production  15.2. Role of chemical catalysis in drop in chemical production  15.3. Lactic acid - a commercially important drop in platform chemical  15.4. Bio-PET (polyethylene terephthalate) - production and technical challenges  15.5. Novel bio-based platform chemicals Chapter 16. Platform chemicals and pharmaceutical industries 16.1. Isosorbide 16.2. Cyanophycin, aspartic acid and arginine 16.3. Hydroxymethylfurfural 16.4. Acetaldehyde 16.5. Glycerol Chapter 17. Biorefinery and possible deforestation 17.1. An outline of the forest resources which can be used as feedstock for biorefinery 17.2. Application of forest resources as  biorefinery feedstock and deforestation 17.3. Extensive land use for the production of biorefinery feedstock and deforestation Chapter 18. Biorefinery and possible negative impact on food market 18.1. Foods materials used in biorefinery 18.2. Present global production and demand of these materials 18.3. Projected demand of food grade materials to run biorefinery for next 20 years 18.4. Possibility of increased food price due to extensive biorefinery practice in future Chapter 19. Algal biorefinery for high value platform chemicals 19.1. Potential products of algal biorefinery 19.2. Marine algae as the feedstock for platform chemical biorefinery 19.3. Algae cultivation process engineering for energy and chemicals 19.4. Future outlook of algal biorefinery for platform chemical Chapter 20. Animal fat and vegetable oil based platform chemical biorefinery 20.1. Global production of animal fat and edible as well as non-edible vegetable oil 20.2. Application of animal fat and vegetable oil for biodiesel production and platform chemical recovery/production from biodiesel industry waste 20.3. Direct application of fat and oil for platform chemical production. 20.4. Potential market of fat and oil derived platform chemicals Chapter 21. Platform chemical biorefinery and agro-industrial waste management 21.1. Agro-industrial waste types and global annual production of these wastes 21.2. Present agro-industrial waste management approaches 21.3. Advantages and challenges of using agro-industrial wastes as the feedstock for biorefinery 21.4. Agro-industrial waste biorefinery - recent engineering breakthroughs Chapter 22. Integrated biorefinery for food, feed and platform chemicals 22.1. Nature, type and global production of food industry wastes 22.2. Food industry waste and its present application 22.3. Food industry waste - a potential feedstock for biotechnological production of platform chemicals 22.4. Probable technological constrains of integrated food and platform chemical biorefinery Chapter 23. Integrated biorefinery for bioenergy and platform chemicals 23.1. Integrated biorefinery of biodiesel and platform chemicals 23.2. Integrated biorefinery of bioethanol and platform chemicals 23.3. Integrated biorefinery of platform chemicals and biogas production 23.4. Agro-industrial wastes as feedstock for bioenergy and platform chemicals Chapter 24. Microbiology of platform chemical biorefinery and metabolic engineering 24.1. Biorefinery and commercially successful microbial processes 24.2. A brief description of the bacteria and yeasts used in biorefinery 24.3. Overview of present and potential metabolic engineering strategies of biorefinery Chapter 25. Enzymes in platform chemical biorefinery 25.1. Application of enzymes for the production of high value platrofm chemicals- a literature survey 25.2. Role of enzymes in green manufacturing of platform chemiclas 25.3. Overview of present and potential enzyme engineering strategies of biorefinery Chapter 26. Process design and optimization for platform chemical biorefinery 26.1. An overview of presently operating platform chemical biorefineries 26.2. Types of reactor used in platform chemical biorefinery 26.3. Biorefinery and downstream processing of platform chemicals 26.4. Technological challenges of platform chemical biorefinery Chapter 27. Case studies on industrial production of renewable platform chemicals 27.1. An overview of different renewable platform chemicals produced in industrial scale 27.2. Nature of the processes, feedstock conversion and product recovery efficiency 27.3. Product quality and process cost 27.4. Present applications and potential market 27.5. Change of production volume over time.

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802980-0
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 712
• Fecha Publicación: 14/03/2016
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