Renewable Bioresources: scope and modification for non-food
applications is the first text to consider the broad concept of
renewable materials from the socio-economic aspects through to the
chemical production and technical aspects of treating different raw
products. The text sets the context of the renewables debate with
key opening chapters on green chemistry, and the current situation
of US and EU policy regarding sustainability and industrial waste.
The quantitative and technical scope and production of renewable
resources is then discussed with material looking at integral
valorisation, the primary production of raw materials, downstream
processing, and the identification of renewable crop materials. The
latter part of the book concludes with a discussion on the uses for
renewable materials such as carbohydrates, woods, fibres,
biopolymers, lipids and proteins in different industrial
applications, including a key chapter on the high value-added
industries.
* Covers the broad concept of renewable resources from different
points of view.
* Takes readers through the identification, production,
processing and end-applications for renewable raw materials.
* Considers and compares EU and US renewable resources and
sustainability objectives.
* Devotes one chapter to green chemistry and sustainability,
focussing on the green industrial processes.
This is an essential book for upper level undergraduates and
Masters students taking modules on Renewable Resources, Green
Chemistry, Sustainable Development, Environmental Science,
Agricultural Science and Environmental Technology. It will also
benefit industry professionals and product developers who are
looking at improved economic and environmental means of utilising
renewable materials.
Tabla de materias
List of Contributors.
List of Abbreviations.
Foreword.
Preface.
Chapter 1. Green Chemistry and Sustainability (Jeffrey
Hardy).
Chapter 2. Socio-Economical Aspects and Policy of Renewable
Resources (Liisa Tahvanainen and Christian V. Stevens).
Chapter 3. Integral Valorization (Werner Praznik and Christian
V. Stevens).
Chapter 4. Primary Production of Raw Materials (Waldemar
Rymowicz).
Chapter 5. Energy from Renewable Resources (Bio-Energy) (Mehrdad
Rymowicz).
Chapter 6. Identification and Quantification of Renewable Crop
Materials (Anton Huber and Werner Praznik).
Chapter 7. Industrial Products from Carbohydrates, Wood and
Fibres (Christian V. Stevens).
Chapter 8. Occurrence, Functions and Biosynthesis of
Non-Carbohydrate Biopolymers (Christian O. Brämer and
Alexander Steinbüchel).
Chapter 9. Industrial Products from Lipids and Proteins (Roland
Verhé).
Chapter 10. High Value Added Industries (Jan Demyttenaere and
Jozef Poppe).
Chapter 11. Renewable Resources: Back to the Future (Christian
V. Stevens.
Index.
Sobre el autor
Professor Christian Stevens is Coordinator of the
Working Group on the European Master Programme ‘Renewable
Resources’ (14 different European countries); Co-organiser of
a European Intensive Courses on Renewable Resources; Author of
reviews on Renewable Resources:
* Chemical Modification of Inulin, a Valuable Renewable
Resource, and its Industrial Applications.Biomacromolecules
(2001) and
* Chitosan as Antimicrobial Agent : Applications and Mode of
Action. Biomacromolecules (2003).
He is author/co-author of several patents on Renewable
Resources and will be the Series Editor of the upcoming series
on Renewable Resources (Wiley)
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