Biorefineries - Industrial Processes and Products: Status Quo and Future Directions

This successful book is devoted to biorefineries and biobased industrial technologies, and, as such, is directed towards the technological principles of biorefineries, green processes, plants, concepts, current and forthcoming biobased product lines, as well as the economic aspects. Since the hot topics of green chemistry and green processes are of a multidisciplinary interest, this book will benefit the whole spectrum of the process industry, including chemical engineers, process engineers, apparatus construction engineers, chemical industry, chemists in industry, and biotechnologists.

The editors and authors are all internationally recognized experts from industry and academia, including Dr. Patrick Gruber, the former Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cargill Dow, winner of the U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry Award and holder of more than 40 patents.

VOLUME 1.

PART I Background and Outline – Principles and Fundamentals.

1 Biorefinery Systems – An Overview (Birgit Kamm, Michael Kamm, Patrick R. Gruber and Stefan Kromus)

2 Biomass Refining Global Impact – The Biobased Economy of the 21st Century (Bruce E. Dale and Seungdo Kim).

3 Development of Biorefineries – Technical and Economic Considerations. (Bill Dean, Tim Dodge, Fernando Valle and Gopal Chotani).

4 Biorefineries for the Chemical Industry　– A Dutch Point of View (Ed de Jong, René van Ree Rea, Robert van Tuil and Wolter Elbersen).

5 The Lignocellulosic Biorefinery　– A Strategy for Returning to a Sustainable Source of Fuels and Industrial Organic Chemicals (L. Davis Clements and Donald L.　Van Dyne).

6 Lignocellulosic Feedstock Biorefinery: History and Plant Development for Biomass Hydrolysis (Raphael katzen and Daniel J. Schell).

7 The Biofine Process　– Production of Levulinic Acid, Furfural, and Formic Acid from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks (Daniel J. Hayes, Steve Fitzpatrick, Michael H.B. Hayes and Julian R.H. Ross).

8 A Whole Crop Biorefinery System: A Closed System for the Manufacture of Non-food Products from Cereals (Apostolis A. Koutinas, Rouhang Wang, Grant M. Campbell and Colin Webb).

9 Iogen's Demonstration Process for Producing Ethanol from Cellulosic Biomass (Jeffrey S. Tolan).

10 Sugar-based Biorefinery　– Technology for Integrated Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), Sugar, and Ethanol (Carlos Eduardo Vax Rossell, Paulo E. Mantelatto, José A.M. Agnelli and Jefter Nascimento).

11 Biomass Refineries Based on Hybrid Thermochemical-Biological Processing　– An Overview (Robert C. Brown).

12 The Green Biorefiner Concept　– Fundamentals and Potential (Stefan Kromus, Birgit Kamm, Michael Kamm, Paul Fowler and Michael Narodoslawsky).

13 Plant Juice in the Biorefinery – Use of Plant Juice as Fermentation Medium (Margrethe Andersen, Pauli Kiel and Mette Hedegaard Thomsen).

PART III Biomass Production and Primary Biorefineries.

14 Biomass Commercialization and Agriculture Residue Collection (James Hettenhaus).

15 The Corn Wet Milling and Corn Dry Milling Industry – A Base for Biorefinery Technology Developments (Donald L. Johnson).

PART IV Biomass Conversion: Processes and Technologies.

16 Enzymes for Biorefineries (Sarah A. Teter, Feng Xu, Glenn E. Nedwin and Joel R. Cherry).

17 Biocatalytic and Catalytic Routes for the Production of Bulk and Fine Chemicals from Renewable Resources (Thomas Willke, Ulf Prüße and Klaus-Dieter Vorlop).

VOLUME 2.

PART 1 Biobased Product Family Trees.

Carbohydrate-based Product Lines.

1 The Key Sugars of Biomass: Availability, Present Non-Food Uses and Potential Future Development Lines (Frieder W. Lichtenthaler).

2 Industrial Starch Platform　– Status quo of Production, Modification and Application (Dietmar R. Grüll, Franz Jetzinger, Martin Kozich, Marnik M. Wastyn and Robert Wittenberger).

3 Lignocellulose-based Chemical Products and Product Family Trees (Birgit Kamm, Michael Kamm, Matthias Schmidt, Thomas Hirth and Margit Schulze).

4 Lignin Chemistry and its Role in Biomass Conversion (Gösta Brunow)

5 Industrial Lignin Production and Applications (E. Kendall Pye).

Protein Line and Amino-based Product Family Trees

6 Towards Integration of Biorefinery and Microbial Amino Acid Production (Achim Marx, Volker F. Wendisch, Ralf Kelle and Stefan Buchholz).

7 Protein-based Polymers: Mechanistic Foundations for Bioproduction and Engineering (Dan W. Urry).

Biobased Fats (Lipids) and Oils.

8 New Syntheses with Oils and Fats as Renewable Raw Materials for the Chemical Industry (Ursula Biermann, Wolfgang Friedt, Siegmund Lang, Wilfried Lühs, Guido Machmüller, Jürgen O. Metzger, Mark Rüsch gen. Klaas, Hans J. Schäfer and Manfred P. Schneider).

8 New Syntheses with Oils and Fats as Renewable Raw Materials for the Chemical Industry (Ursula Biermann, Wolfgang Friedt, Siegmund Lang, Wilfried Lühs, Guido Machmüller, Jürgen O. Metzger, Mark Rüsch gen. Klaas, Hans J. Schäfer and Manfred P. Schneider).

Special Ingredients and Subsequent Products.

10 Phytochemicals, Dyes, and Pigments in the Biorefinery Context (George A. Kraus).

11 Adding Color to Green Chemistry? An Overview of the Fundamentals and Potential of Chlorophylls (Mathias O. Senge and Julia Richter).

PART II Biobased Industrial Products, Materials and Consumer Products.

12 Industrial Chemicals from Biomass – Industrial Concepts (Johan Thoen and Rainer Busch).

13 Succinic Acid – A Model Building Block for Chemical Production from Renewable Resources (Todd Werpy, John Frye adn John Holladay).

14 Polylactic Acid from Renewable Resources (Patrick Gruber, David E. Henton and Jack Starr).

15 Biobased Consumer Products for Cosmetics (Thomas C. Kripp).

PART III Biobased Industry: Economy, Commercialization and Sustainability.

16 Industrial Biotech　– Setting Conditions to Capitalize on the Economic Potential (Rolf Bachmann and Jens Riese).