Haibo Xie, Nicholas Gathergood

The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass Processing and Conversion

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing readers with a basic knowledge of biopolymers, The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass and Processing and Conversion offers a score of methods and solutions to integrate green chemistry that will lead to cleaner burning fuels. This up-to-date guide and review on applying green chemistry technologies covers recent advances on homogenous, heterogeneous catalytic system and biocatalysis for biomass conversion and the assessment of environmental and ecotoxicological effects of bioenergy and ionic liquids platforms, which is especially important to biorefinery manufacturing companies and researchers interested in chemical aspects of "clean technology".

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Sets 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. Moreover, the production and use of fossil fuels have resulted in considerable environmental harm. The generation of environmentally friendly energy from renewable sources such as biomass is therefore essential. This book focuses on the integration of green chemistry concepts into biomass processes and conversion in order to take full advantage of the potential of biomass to replace nonsustainable resources and meet global needs for fuel as well as other chemicals and materials.

The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass Processing and Conversion features contributions from leading experts from Asia, Europe, and North America. Focusing on lignocellulosic biomass, the most abundant biomass resource, the book begins with a general introduction to biomass and biorefineries and then provides an update on the latest advances in green chemistry that support biomass processing and conversion. Next, the authors describe current and emerging biomass processing and conversion techniques that use green chemistry technologies, including:
Green solvents such as ionic liquids, supercritical CO2, and water
Sustainable energy sources such as microwave irradiation and sonification
Green catalytic technologies
Advanced membrane separation technologies

The last chapter of the book explores the ecotoxicological and environmental effects of converting and using fuels, chemicals, and materials from biomass.

Recommended for professionals and students in chemical engineering, green chemistry, and energy and fuels, The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass Processing and Conversion sets a strong foundation for the development of a competitive and sustainable bioeconomy.

This monograph includes a Foreword by James Clark (University of York, UK).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780470644102
• ISBN-10: 0470644109
• Artikelnr.: 36142766

Autorenporträt

HAIBO XIE, PhD, is an associate professor at the Division of Bioenergy Research, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who studies catalysis and biomass processing and conversion with environmentally friendly solvents. NICHOLAS GATHERGOOD, PhD, is a lecturer at Dublin City University and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 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 SchEURaffer
Thomas-Benjamin Seiler
Largus T. Angenent
and Henner Hollert Index 469

Rezensionen

"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)