Biobased Chemicals Report

Brochures, reports and publications on specific areas such as on Biobased Chemicals Bio-based Chemicals -Value Added Products from Biorefineries , Green Building Blocks for Biobased Plastics and Biofuel-driven biorefineries and A Selection of the most Promising Biorefinery Concepts to produce Large Volumes of Road Transportation Biofuels by 2025 . ... 

The concept biorefinery is discussed in the US National Research Council Report Biobased Industrial Products [4] and by Lynd et al. [7] in much detail. The basic idea is the processing of multiple renewable resources and the production of multiple products in a production complex. Another characteristic of biorefinery is the integration of thermal, chemical, biological and/or cataly-tical processes for an efficient and optimal processing and utilization of the raw materials. Technological, ecological and economic analysis and system design should be implemented to ensure an overall optimization of raw material conversion and product formation in a similar way as for oil refineries. 

Biodegradable plastics can be categorized in a number of ways. They can be divided into synthetic plastics and natural plastics, into biobased and nonbiobased plastics, or by polymer family. The reported chemical compositions of various biodegradable plastics, as compiled from various sources, are shown in Table... 

Commercial plans for a biobased ethylene source to manufacture polyethylene have been published by Dow Chemical Company for a process based in Brazil. In a report by Kevin Bullis published by MIT Technology Review on July 25, 2011, plans for the construction of a 240-million-liter ethanol plant using sugarcane as feedstock has been proposed by Dow as a joint venture with Mitsui. This ethanol-based ethylene would be used to manufacture 350,000 metric tons of polyethylene. This would be in addition to a 200,000-ton sugarcane-to-polyethylene plant operated by Brazil-based Braskem. However, for this ethanol-based ethylene and polyethylene facility to be successful, the ethylene costs must be competitive with ethylene produced from naphtha, which will mostly likely remain the high-cost ethylene source. 

The Biobased Economy of the Twenty-First Century Agriculture Expanding into Health, Energy, Chemicals and Materiab, NABC Report 12, Eaglesham, A., Brown, W. F. and Hardy, R. W. E., Eds National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 2000. 

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