Description
Book SynopsisSets the stage for the development of sustainable, environmentally friendly fuels, chemicals, and materials Taking millions of years to form, fossil fuels are nonrenewable resources; it is estimated that they will be depleted by the end of this century.
Trade Review“By providing interesting outlooks on a subject of such high debate and importance in both industry and research, the work of the editors sets itself as foundation for all those interested in development of new and sustainable means of bioresources processing.” (
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 1 March 2013)
Table of ContentsForeword vii
Preface xi
Contributors xiii
About the Editors xvii
1 Introduction of Biomass and Biorefineries 1
Birgit Kamm
2 Recent Advances in Green Chemistry 27
Nicholas Gathergood
3 Biorefinery with Ionic Liquids 75
Haibo Xie, Wujun Liu, Ian Beadham, and Nicholas Gathergood
4 Biorefinery with Water 135
X. Philip Ye, Leming Cheng, Haile Ma, Biljana Bujanovic, Mangesh J. Goundalkar, and Thomas E. Amidon
5 Supercritical CO2 as an Environmentally Benign Medium for Biorefinery 181
Ray Marriott and Emily Sin
6 Dissolution and Application of Cellulose in NaOH/Urea Aqueous Solution 205
Xiaopeng Xiong and Jiangjiang Duan
7 Organosolv Biorefining Platform for Producing Chemicals, Fuels, and Materials from Lignocellulose 241
Xuejun Pan
8 Pyrolysis Oils from Biomass and Their Upgrading 263
Qirong Fu, Haibo Xie, and Dimitris S. Argyropoulos
9 Microwave Technology for Lignocellulosic Biorefinery 281
Takashi Watanabe and Tomohiko Mitani
10 Biorefinery with Microbes 293
Cuimin Hu and Zongbao K. Zhao
11 Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biomass Conversion 313
Aiqin Wang, Changzhi Li, Mingyuan Zheng, and Tao Zhang
12 Catalytic Conversion of Glycerol 349
Jie Xu, Weiqiang Yu, Hong Ma, Feng Wang, Fang Lu, Mukund Ghavre, and Nicholas Gathergood
13 Ultrasonics for Enhanced Fluid Biofuel Production 375
David Grewell and Melissa Montalbo-Lomboy
14 Advanced Membrane Technology for Products Separation in Biorefinery 407
Shenghai Li, Suobo Zhang, and Weihui Bi
15 Assessment of the Ecotoxicological and Environmental Effects of Biorefineries 435
Kerstin Bluhm, Sebastian Heger, Matthew T. Agler, Sibylle Maletz, Andreas Sch€affer, Thomas-Benjamin Seiler, Largus T. Angenent, and Henner Hollert
Index 469
