The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass Processing and Conversion

by Xie, Haibo; Gathergood, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780470644102
• ISBN10: 0470644109
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-10
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Providing readers with a basic knowledge of biopolymers, The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass and Processing and Conversion offers a score of methods and solutions to integrate green chemistry that will lead to cleaner burning fuels. This up-to-date guide and review on applying green chemistry technologies covers recent advances on homogenous, heterogeneous catalytic system and biocatalysis for biomass conversion and the assessment of environmental and ecotoxicological effects of bioenergy and ionic liquids platforms, which is especially important to biorefinery manufacturing companies and researchers interested in chemical aspects of "clean technology".

Author Biography

HAIBO XIE, PhD, is an associate professor at the Division of Bioenergy Research, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who studies catalysis and biomass processing and conversion with environmentally friendly solvents.

NICHOLAS GATHERGOOD, PhD, is a lecturer at Dublin City University and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.

Table of Contents

Preface
Haibo Xie, Nickolas Gathergood

Chapter 1: Introduction of Biomass and Biorefineries
Birgit Kamm

Chapter 2: Recent advances in Green Chemistry
Nicholas Gathergood

Chapter 3: Biorefinery with Ionic Liquids
Haibo Xie,Wujun Liu, Ian Beadham, Nicholas Gathergood

Chapter 4: Biorefinery with Water
X. Philip Ye, Leming Cheng, Haile Ma, Biljana Bujanovic, Mangesh J. Goundalkar, Thomas E. Amidon

Chapter 5: Supercritical CO2 as an Environmentally Benign Medium for Biorefinery
Ray Marriott and Emily Sin

Chapter 6: Dissolution and Application of Cellulose in NaOH/urea Aqueous Solution
Xiaopeng Xiong, Jiangjiang Duan

Chapter 7: Organosolv Biorefining Platform for Producing Chemicals, Fuels and Materials from Lignocellulose
Xuejun Pan

Chapter 8: Pyrolysis Oils from Biomass and their Upgrading
Qirong Fu, Haibo Xie, and Dimitris S. Argyropoulos

Chapter 9: Microwave Technology for Lignocellulosic Biorefinery
Takashi Watanabe and Tomohiko Mitani

Chapter 10: Biorefinery with Microbes
Cuimin Hu, Zongbao K. Zhao

Chapter 11: Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biomass Conversion
Aiqin Wang, Changzhi Li, Mingyuan Zheng, Tao Zhang

Chapter 12: Catalytic Conversion of Glycerol
Jie Xu, Weiqiang Yu, Hong Ma, Feng Wang, Fang Lu, Mukund Ghavr and Nicholas Gathergood

Chapter 13: Ultrasonics for Enhanced Fluid Biofuel Production
David Grewell, Melissa Montalbo-Lomboy

Chapter 14: Advanced Membrane Technology for Products Separation in Biorefinery
Shenghai Li, Suobo Zhang, Weihui Bi

Chapter 15: Assessment of the Ecotoxicological & Environmental Effects of Biorefineries
Kerstin Bluhm, Sebastian Heger, Matthew T. Agler, Sibylle Maletz, Andreas Schäffer, Thomas-Benjamin Seiler, Largus T. Angenent, Henner Hollert