Valorisation of Biowastes for the Production of Green Materials Using Chemical Methods
| Autor: | Joseph A. Houghton, Avtar S. Matharu, Thomas I.J. Dugmore, Julen Bustamante, James H. Clark |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Waste valorisation
Biomass 02 engineering and technology Review Raw material 01 natural sciences Production (economics) Waste Products 010405 organic chemistry Chemistry business.industry Green Chemistry Technology General Chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Biorefinery 0104 chemical sciences Green chemistry Agriculture Green materials Biofuels Food processing Biochemical engineering Valorisation 0210 nano-technology business Microwave |
| Zdroj: | Topics in Current Chemistry (Journal) |
| ISSN: | 2364-8961 2365-0869 0340-1022 |
| Popis: | With crude oil reserves dwindling, the hunt for a sustainable alternative feedstock for fuels and materials for our society continues to expand. The biorefinery concept has enjoyed both a surge in popularity and also vocal opposition to the idea of diverting food-grade land and crops for this purpose. The idea of using the inevitable wastes arising from biomass processing, particularly farming and food production, is, therefore, gaining more attention as the feedstock for the biorefinery. For the three main components of biomass—carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins—there are long-established processes for using some of these by-products. However, the recent advances in chemical technologies are expanding both the feedstocks available for processing and the products that be obtained. Herein, this review presents some of the more recent developments in processing these molecules for green materials, as well as case studies that bring these technologies and materials together into final products for applied usage. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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