World textile industry, energy

Acrylamide with a demand of 200,000 tons year" is one of the most important commodities in the world. It is used for the preparation of coagulators, soil conditioners, stock additives for paper treatment, and in leather and textile industry as a component of synthetic fibers. Conventional chemical synthesis involving hydration of acrylonitrile with the use of copper salts as a catalyst has some disadvantages rate of acrylic acid formation higher than acrylamide, by-products formation and polymerization, and high-energy inputs. To overcome these limits since 1985, the Japanese company Nitto Chemical Industry developed a biocatalyzed process to synthesize... 

Sources of human activity that result in CO2 emissions are electricity, transportation, industry, residential—commercial, and nonfossil fuel combustion. The share of industrial purposed energy demand, including textile industry, is about one-third of total global energy demand that is consumed largely by chemicals-petrochemicals, iron-steel, cement, paper, and aluminum industries. CO2 emission of the textile industry has been reported as about 2% of total industrial CO2 emission of the world, estimated to be about 0.18 gigatons/year (Ngai et al., 2012). 

Academic studies that involve energy efficiency in the textile industry are not at a desired level compared to the volume of the sector in the world. Most of the published studies focus on the energy savings, measurements, comparison of current methods and technologies, potential benefits and energy savings in plant size and national size. 

Research about energy footprint analysis in the textile and clothing industry started long after the major energy crisis in the world in the 1970s. 

Adipic acid is an important platform chemical with a turnover of 2.5 million tons per year. It is mainly applied as an intermediate reactant for the production of nylon-6,6, a world-leading polymer in the textile and the automobile industry. Due to a relatively high energy demand and greenhouse gas emission, inherently linked to the traditional petrochemical production, great potential exists for more sustainable bio-based alternatives. In pioneering developments, sugars, fats, and alkanes are used as novel feedstock for the production of bio-adipic acid. Recent approaches that recruit small... 

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