Sugar platform

It is interesting to note that the sugar platform and many other (nonthermochemical) processes likely to be incorporated into a biorefinery, will almost certainly generate some waste products that will be difficult to convert into value-added materials and chemicals. Such wastes and residues represent an important source of energy within the biorefinery and are an ideal candidate for thermochemical conversion (Ragauskas et al, 2006). 

Type of main intermediates produced syngas platform biorefineries, sugar platform biorefineries. 

C6 sugar platform biorefinery for bioethanol and animal feed from starch crops... 

Finally, several papers describing the development and use of renewable building blocks are included. Fitzpatrick describes the use of levulinic acid as a chemical feedstock, as well as its continued development. New nanostructural materials based on biopolymers are discussed by van Soest. Robinson presents an overview of a bioreflnery sugar platform leading to the production of polyols. A new approach for the extraction of heteropolysaccharides is given by... 

Polyols An Alternative Sugar Platform for Conversion of Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals... 

Our research has established a clean fractionation of biomass carbohydrate polymers into monomeric polyols which serve as a new alternative sugar platform. Polyols are obtained from biomass by chemical means, rather than by enzymatic degradation, and are further transformed by chemical means into quality fuels and other chemicals. 

The production of biofuels and bio-based chemicals is now well established. Several enterprises all over the world have initiated the commercial production of energy/fuel and chemicals from renewable sources. The annual bioethanol production is reported to be between 100,000 and 300,000 tons per year from Cg sugar platform biorefinery (lEA, 2013). In Europe, most of these biorefineries use multifeedstock, primarily sugar or starch crops, whereas in the United States most of the biorefineries use sugarcane and com (lEA,... 

Laboratory (USA), which includes a sugar platform and a syngas platform. 

With regard to the two-platform biorefineries, it is notable that the sugar platform is likely to generate varying amounts of waste products, which may not be suitable for direct conversion to value-added products. Ragauskas et al. (2006) suggested that such wastes may conveniently be used as sources of energy within the biorefinery system, and at the same time, they also will form suitable raw materials for the production of value-added materials and chemicals via thermochemical conversion. 

Biomass can be converted into biofuels via two main types of processes thermochemical and biochemical/biological conversion (Huang and Yuan, 2015). The typical products of the thermochemical conversion process include syngas, bio-oil, and biochar and the products of the biochemical conversion process are bioalcohols, carbohydrates, and lignin. Our concern in this chapter is biochemical production of bioalcohols, or biorefinery process through the well-known sugar platform. ... 

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