Biorefineries - Industrial Processes and Products

BACKGROUND AND OUTLINE - PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTALS Biorefinery Systems - An Overview Biomass Refining Global Impact - The Biobased Economy of the 21st Century Development of Biorefineries - Technical and Economic Considerations Biorefineries for the Chemical Industry - A Dutch Point of View BIOREFINERY SYSTEMS The Lignocellulosic Biorefinery - A Strategy for Returning to a Sustainable Source of Fuels and Industrial Organic Chemicals Lignocellulosic Feedstock Biorefinery: History and Plant Development for Biomass Hydrolysis The Biofine Process - Production of Levulinic Acid, Furfural, and Formic Acid from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks A Whole Crop Biorefinery System: A Closed System for the Manufacture of Non-food Products from Cereals Iogen's Demonstration Process for Producing Ethanol from Cellulosic Biomass Sugar-based Biorefinery - Technology for Integrated Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), Sugar, and Ethanol Biomass Refineries Based on Hybrid Thermochemical-Biological Processing - An The Green Biorefiner Concept - Fundamentals and Potential Plant Juice in the Biorefinery - Use of Plant Juice as Fermentation Medium BIOMASS PRODUCTION AND PRIMARY BIOREFINERIES Biomass Commercialization and Agriculture Residue Collection The Corn Wet Milling and Corn Dry Milling Industry - A Base for Biorefinery Technology Developments BIOMASS CONVERSION: PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES Enzymes for Biorefineries Biocatalytic and Catalytic Routes for the Production of Bulk and Fine Chemicals from Renewable Resources BIOBASED PRODUCT FAMILY TREES The Key Sugars of Biomass: Availability, Present Non-Food Uses and Potential Future Development Lines Industrial Starch Platform - Status quo of Production, Modification and Application Lignocellulose-based Chemical Products and Product Family Trees Lignin Chemistry and its Role in Biomass Conversion Industrial Lignin Production and Applications Towards Integration of Biorefinery and Microbial Amino Acid Production Protein-based Polymers:

Birgit Kamm has been a member of the board and scientific director at biopos e.V. since 1998. She founded the Green Biorefinery Association Berlin-Brandenburg in 1997 and co-founded the biorefinery.de gmbH, Potsdam (a research, development and transfer company). She is a member of several scientific associations, such as the Society of German Chemists, Liebig Association of Organic Chemistry, and of the American Chemical Society, Green Chemistry and Subdivision.

Patrick Gruber is currently President and CEO of Outlast Technologies. He is the former Vice President and Chief Technology Officer 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 in Merseburg. Following a research assistantship in Halle-Wittenberg he moved to Potsdam University, founded biopos where he has been involved in the material exploitation of regenerative raw materials. He has been President of biorefinery.de since its foundation in 2001.

"Mit diesem Buch liegt erstmals ein umfassendes, systematisch aufgebautes und klar strukturiertes Werk zur Verarbeitung von Biomassen in Bioraffinerien in Form von Ganzpflanzen vor. Dabei werden Prinzip, Logik und Effizienz der Erdölraffinerien, Produktlinien und Produktstammbäume auf die Biomasse übertragen. Diese Bände sollten in eine moderne Ausbildung von Chemikern, Biotechnologen und Ingenieuren Eingang finden. Auch sind sie eine hervorragende Basis als Nachschlagewerk für ausgebildete Chemiker, Biotechnologen und Verfahrensingenieure für den Bereich biobasierte Rohstoffe, Technologien und Produkte."Mitteilungen der Fachgruppe Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie - Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

"Altogether, the edition is an interdisciplinary effort to collect knowledge, experience, and potential in the field of biomass treatment and utilization from a rather chemical point of view. It is a useful source of information for interested scientists, technologists, and engineers in chemistry, agricultural and food sciences and technology as well as related fields."Starch/Stärke"The book covers a wide range of topics and is, to my knowledge, the best and most comprehensive review of biorefineries. It is the work of 85 experts from universities, R&D institutes, industry and commerce. The authors address the challenges of moving towards a sustainable society in which biological feedstocks, processes and products become the main pillars of the economy, together with the science and technology that makes this transition possible, including economic, infrastructure and policy issues."Chemistry World"The topics presented in this volume are challenges of moving toward a sustainable society in which bio-based feedstocks, processes and products are fundamental pillars of the economy. One important feature of the book is that it discusses the necessary topics of economics, infrastructure and policy. The book can be a very valuable scientific support for the specialists interested in conservation of non-renewable resources and development of biorefineries - technologies for bio-conversion."Environmental Engineering and Management Journal