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Renewables-based technology : sustainability assessment.
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ISBN: 0470022418 9780470022412 9786610355709 0470022434 1601196466 1280355700 0470022442 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chichester Wiley

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Sustainability is a key driving force for industries in the chemical, food, packaging, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors, and quantitative sustainability indicators are being incorporated into company reports. This is driving the uptake of renewable resources and the adoption of renewables. Renewables' can either be the substituted raw materials that are used in a given industry, (e.g. the use of biomass for fuel); the use and/or modification of a crop for use in a new industry (e.g. plant cellulose), or the reuse of a waste product (e.g. organic waste for energy production). This is the first book in the "Wiley Renewable Resources" series that brings together the range of sustainability assessment methods and their uses. Ensuing books in the series will look at individual renewable materials and applications.

Renewable bioresources : scope and modification for non-food applications
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ISBN: 0470854472 0470854464 Year: 2004 Publisher: Hoboken Wiley

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Renewable Bioresources: scope and modification for non-food applications is the first text to consider the broad concept of renewable materials from the socio-economic aspects through to the chemical production and technical aspects of treating different raw products. The text sets the context of the renewables debate with key opening chapters on green chemistry, and the current situation of US and EU policy regarding sustainability and industrial waste. The quantitative and technical scope and production of renewable resources is then discussed with material looking at integral valorisation, the primary production of raw materials, downstream processing, and the identification of renewable crop materials. The latter part of the book concludes with a discussion on the uses for renewable materials such as carbohydrates, woods, fibres, biopolymers, lipids and proteins in different industrial applications, including a key chapter on the high value-added industries.

- Covers the broad concept of renewable resources from different points of view.
- Takes readers through the identification, production, processing and end-applications for renewable raw materials.
- Considers and compares EU and US renewable resources and sustainability objectives.
- Devotes one chapter to green chemistry and sustainability, focussing on the green industrial processes.

This is an essential book for upper level undergraduates and Masters students taking modules on Renewable Resources, Green Chemistry, Sustainable Development, Environmental Science, Agricultural Science and Environmental Technology. It will also benefit industry professionals and product developers who are looking at improved economic and environmental means of utilising renewable materials.


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milieutechnologie --- groene chemie --- polymers --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- biopolymeren --- biopolymers --- polymeren --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Macromolecules --- Ressource renouvelable --- Renewable resources --- Utilisation des déchets --- Waste utilization --- Déchet agricole --- Agricultural wastes --- Déchet d'exploitation forestière --- Logging wastes --- Déchet industriel --- Industrial wastes --- Valeur économique --- economic value --- Produit non alimentaire --- Non food products --- Développement de produit --- product development --- Changement technologique --- technological changes --- Biopolymers. --- Chemical industry --- Environmental chemistry --- Renewable natural resources. --- Environmental aspects. --- Industrial applications. --- Biopolymeren --- Chemische industrie --- Milieuchemie --- 620.95 --- 504.062 --- 620.91 hernieuwbare energiebronnen --- 338.45 industrie --- 664 verwerkende industrie --- Utilization of biological energy, e.g. from vegetation, animals --- Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development --- Biopolymeren. --- Chemische industrie. --- Milieuchemie. --- 504.062 Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development --- 620.95 Utilization of biological energy, e.g. from vegetation, animals --- Biopolymers --- Renewable natural resources --- Natural resources, Renewable --- Resources, Renewable natural --- Natural resources --- Sustainable chemistry --- Chemical engineering --- Chemistry, Technical --- Sustainable engineering --- Bioactive polymers --- Biological polymers --- Natural polymers --- Naturally occurring polymers --- Biomolecules --- Polymers --- Environmental aspects --- Industrial applications --- Economic aspects --- duurzaamheid

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