Oil crop biorefinery

Degradation and Applications 13 Challenges in Green Analytical Chemistiy 14 Advanced Oil Crop Biorefineries 15 Enantioselective Homogeneous Supported Catalysis 16 Natural Polymers Volume 1 Composites 17 Natural Polymers Volume 2 Nanocomposites 18 Integrated Forest Biorefineries... 

Kazmi A, editor. Advanced oil crop biorefineries. Cambridge RSC Green Chem. No.l4, RSC Publ. 2012. 

Stamatelatou K, Turley D, Laybourne R, Flenet F, Quinsac A, Marriott R, et al. In Kazmi A, editor. Advanced oil crop biorefineries. Cambridge RSC Publ. 2012. p. 48-101. 

Oleochemical biorefineries Oil crops Pretreatment, chemical catalysis, fractionation, separation Pilot plant. Demo, commercial Oil, glycerin, cattle feed... 

To compete with the traditional fossil-based refineries, biorefineries have to exploit optimally raw materials firom plants and create multiple value chains. Therefore, the concept of a whole-plant biorefinery appears as a more convenient model. Despite the diversity of oil crops, such as soy, rapeseed, sunflower, and palm, the whole-plant biorefinery concept can be applied similarly to all of them. Differences can emerge due to the nature of the plant and the way to recover its seeds containing the vegetable oil. Palm trees, for instance, remain in the soil, and their fruits are harvested, where plants such as rapeseed or sunflower are cut every year. In both cases, the first step of the biorefinery process is to separate the oil-rich seeds firom the lignocellulosic fraction of the plant. 

Figure 5.4 depicts the general map of the biorefinery of an oil crop such as rapeseed. The whole-plant biorefinery can be divided into three different stages agricultural productions, the biorefinery itself, and the main industrial markets of the produas obtained fi m the biorefinery. 

Such development has justified the significant industrial investment made by Novamont to build the first local biorefinery of this type in Europe, which comprises plants for the production of nanostructured starch and polyesters from vegetable oils. Moreover, new investments on monomers from vegetable oils from local crops will permit a further up-stream integration of the biorefinery. 

Oil biorefinery using oilseed crops for biodiesel, glycerin, and feed (Figure 1.7)... 

BCI(FCIpia forms/FClFeedstocks/FCIproaucts/FCIproeesses). with an example 8 (1/1/3/3) for a 1-platform (oil) biorefinery using oilseed crops for biodiesel, glycerin, and feed... 

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