Biomass and Biowaste : : New Chemical Products from Old / / ed. by Alina M. Balu, Araceli García Nuñez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Asedegbega-Nieto, Esther,; Bartkiene, Elena,; Briones, Rodrigo,; Cecilia, Juan Antonio,; Coman, Simona M.,; Fratczak, Jakub,; Funez, Inmaculada,; García, Cristina,; Hidalgo, José Miguel,; Iliopoulou, E. F.,; Infantes Molina, Antonia,; Ivars-Barceló, Francisco,; Juodeikiene, Grazina,; Kalogiannis, K. G.,; Karakoulia, S. A.,; Klupsaite, Dovile,; Lappas, A. A.,; Maireles, Pedro Jesus,; Margellou, A.,; Parvulescu, Vasile I.,; Paz Carmona, Hector de,; Pineda, A.,; Rodríguez Aguado, Elena,; Rodríguez-Castellón, Enrique,; Serrano, Luis,; Stefanidis, S. D.,; Triantafyllidis, K. S.,; Varaprasad, Kokkarachedu,; Zadeike, Daiva,
• HerausgeberIn: Balu, Alina M.,; García Nuñez, Araceli,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 182 p.)

Valorization of biomass focuses on the transformation of biomass molecules into substitutes for petroleum-based chemicals that can be reused. Valorizing Biomass and Biowaste discusses the chemistry and composition of alternative biomass sources. Later chapters will introduce new markets and discuss...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of contributing authors
• 1. Furfural derivatives from agricultural and agri-food wastes by heterogeneous catalysis
• 2. Biorefinery approach for the utilization of dairy by-products and lignocellulosic biomass to lactic acid
• 3. Biomass and biowastes: renewable resources for biodegradable materials in advanced applications
• 4. Supported metal catalysts for the sustainable upgrading of renewable biomass to value-added fine chemicals and fuels
• 5. State-of-the-art in biomass fast pyrolysis using acidic catalysts: direct comparison between microporous zeolites, mesoporous aluminosilicates and hierarchical zeolites
• 6. Advances in the application of transition metal phosphide catalysts for hydrodeoxygenation reactions of bio-oil from biomass pyrolysis
• 7. Bio-waste and petroleum fractions coprocessing to fuels
• Backmatter
• Index