Bioprocessing for value-added products from renewable resources : new technologies and applications /

Bioprocessing for Value-Added Products from Renewable Resources provides a timely review of new and unconventional techniques to manufacture high-value products based on simple biological material. The current source for most chemicals and materials is petroleum. Anticipation of its limited future a...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Yang, Shang-Tian
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam :
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444521149
Summary: Bioprocessing for Value-Added Products from Renewable Resources provides a timely review of new and unconventional techniques to manufacture high-value products based on simple biological material. The current source for most chemicals and materials is petroleum. Anticipation of its limited future availability, along with record high prices has spurred interest in alternatives that will be both sustainable and cost-effective. In a very structured way this book begins by describing the modern technologies that form the basis for creating a bio-based industry. Next it lists the various organis
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiv, 670 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780444521149
0444521143
9780080466712
0080466710
Index Number: TP248
CLC: Q5
Contents: I. Enabling Technologies -- -- II. Cultures for Bioprocessing -- -- III. Unconventional and Novel Bioprocesses -- -- IV. Feedstock Utilization -- -- Index.