Commercializing Biobased Products: Opportunities, Challenges, Benefits, and Risks (Green Chemistry Series, Volume 43)

Biobased products offer substantial economic and environmental benefits, but understanding how to commercialize this requires a comprehensive look at the process, including feedstocks, technologies, product slate, supply chain, policy, financing, and environmental impact. Covering biobased products in a broad context, this book examines the environmental and economic impacts, compares US and EU policies, explores the factors affecting financing, and considers biological conversion, catalytic conversion, and separations. By examining the process from several critical perspectives in the supply chain, this book provides chemical engineers with a better understanding of challenges, opportunities, risks, and benefits of commercialization. title 1 RSC Green Chemistry 2 Preface 7 Contents 9 1 - An Introduction to Commercializing Biobased Products: Opportunities, Challenges, Benefits, and Risks 19 2 - The Changing Landscape: A History and Evolution of Bio-based Products 26 3 - Bioenergy Crops: Delivering More Than Energy 43 4 - Butanol Production by Fermentation: Efficient Bioreactors 66 5 - Catalysis’s Role in Bioproducts Update 89 6 - Separations Technologies for Biobased Product Formation—Opportunities and Challenges 110 7 - Lignin as Feedstock for Fibers and Chemicals 150 8 - Update on Research and Development of Microbial Oils 184 9 - Bioprocessing of Costcompetitive Biobased Organic Acids 208 10 - CO2 Conversion to Chemicals with Emphasis on using Renewable Energy/Resources to Drive the Conversion 233 11 - Methodological Considerations, Drivers and Trends in the Life Cycle Analysis of Bioproducts 276 12 - Design and Planning of Sustainable Supply Chains for Biobased Products 303 13 - US Government Bioproducts Policy ‘‘Watch What We Do, Not What We Say’’ 322 14 - Study on Investment Climate in Bio-based Industries in the Netherlands 333 15 - A Monte Carlo-based Methodology for Valuing Refineries Producing Aviation Biofuel 354 16 - A Path Forward: Investment Cooperation between the United States and China in a Bioeconomy 370 Subject Index 384 Content: An Introduction to Commercializing Biobased Products: Opportunities, Challenges, Benefits, and Risks The Changing Landscape: The History and Evolution of Bio-Based Products Bioenergy Crops: Delivering More Than Energy Butanol Production by Fermentation: Efficient Bioreactors Catalysis's Role in Bioproducts Update Separation Technologies for Biobased Product Formation - Opportunities and Challenges Lignin as Feedstock for Fibers and Chemicals Update on Research and Development of Microbial Oils Bioprocessing of Cost-competitive Biobased Organic Acids Carbon Dioxide Covenrsion to Chemicals with Emphasis on using Renewable Energy/Resources to Drive the Conversion Methodological Considerations, Drivers and Trends in the Life Cycle Analysis of Bioproducts Design and Planning of Sustainable Supply Chains for Biobased Products US Government Bioproducts Policy "Watch What We Do, Not What We Say" Study on Investment Climate in Biobased Industries in the Netherlands A Monte Carlo-Based Methodology for Valuing Refineries Producing Aviation Biofuel A Path Forward: Investment Cooperation between the United States and China in a Bioeconomy

Biobased products offer substantial economic and environmental benefits, but understanding how to commercialize this requires a comprehensive look at the process, including feedstocks, technologies, product slate, supply chain, policy, financing, and environmental impact.

Covering biobased products in a broad context, this book examines the environmental and economic impacts, compares US and EU policies, explores the factors affecting financing, and considers biological conversion, catalytic conversion, and separations.

By examining the process from several critical perspectives in the supply chain, this book provides chemical engineers with a better understanding of challenges, opportunities, risks, and benefits of commercialization.

Editor: Seth. W. Snyder. Includes Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.