A sustainable economical growth requires safe resources of raw materials for industrial production. Today's most frequently used industrial raw material, petroleum, is neither sustainable, nor environmentally friendly. Biorefineries combine the necessary technologies of the biological raw materials with those of chemical intermediates and final products. This is the first book dedicated to biorefineries and biobased industrial technologies. This book gives a comprehensive survey of technological principles of biorefineries, green processes and plants, current and forthcoming biobased product lines, as well as the economic aspects. From the contents: * Background * Biorefinery Systems * Green Biorefinery * Lignocellulose Feedstock Biorefinery * Whole Crop Biorefinery * Fuel oriented Biorefineries * Biobased Feedstocks and Biomass Production * Wet and Dry Fractionation * Industrial Bioconversion * Biobased Product Lines and Product Family Trees * Carbohydrate Lines * Lignin Lines * Protein Lines * Biobased Fats and Oils * Syngas Platform and Gasification Route * Biobased Products and Materials * Biobased Basic Chemicals * Biobased Polymers and Materials * Biobased (Industrial) Economy and Commercialization * Biobased Industry and Sustainability

Birgit Kamm studied chemistry at the Technical University of Merseburg, Germany where she obtained her Diploma in 1986, and received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1991 at the Institute of Organic Chemistry (with Prof. M. Schulz and Prof. E. Fanghänel). After receiving a grant from the German Federal Environmental Foundation in 1997, she joined the Institute of Chemistry (with Prof. E. Kleinpeter and Prof. M.G. Peter), University of Potsdam, where she fi nished her Habilitation in Organic Chemistry in 2005. She founded the Biorefinery Association BerlinBrandenburg, Germany, in 1997. Since 1998 she has been a member of the board of the Research Institute of Bioactive Polymer Systems (biopos e.V.), and since 2001 she has been scientific director of this institute. Patrick Gruber is currently President and CEO of Outlast Technologies. He is the former Vice President and Chief Technology Offi cer at NatureWorks LLC (formerly Cargill Dow LLC), USA. He has over 40 patents to his name and has repeatedly won top awards for his work in chemicals made from renewable resources, including the Discovery Award for Environmental Innovation awarded by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, the US Presidential Green Chemistry Award, and the US Department of Energy Technology of the Year Award 2001, together with Cargill Dow Inc., for the pioneering NatureWorks PLA project. He has served on the Advisory Board to the Energy Futures Coalition, The DOE/USDA Biomass Federal Advisory Board, and several other boards. Michael Kamm studied organic chemistry at the Technical University of Merseburg, Germany, where he graduated with his Diploma. After a research assistantship in Halle-Wittenberg he moved to Potsdam University, co-founded the research institute biopos e.V. where he was involved in the material utilization of renewable raw materials. Since the foundation of biorefinery.de GmbH in 2001 he was President of this company with its headquarter in Potsdam, Germany. He authored and co-authored more than 60 scientific publications and is the holder of 15 international patents.

BACKGROUND AND OUTLINE - PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTALS Biorefinery Systems - An Overview Biomass Refining Global Impact - The Biobased Economy of the 21st Century Development of Biorefineries - Technical and Economic Considerations Biorefineries for the Chemical Industry - A Dutch Point of View BIOREFINERY SYSTEMS The Lignocellulosic Biorefinery - A Strategy for Returning to a Sustainable Source of Fuels and Industrial Organic Chemicals Lignocellulosic Feedstock Biorefinery: History and Plant Development for Biomass Hydrolysis The Biofine Process - Production of Levulinic Acid, Furfural, and Formic Acid from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks A Whole Crop Biorefinery System: A Closed System for the Manufacture of Non-food Products from Cereals Iogen''s Demonstration Process for Producing Ethanol from Cellulosic Biomass Sugar-based Biorefinery - Technology for Integrated Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), Sugar, and Ethanol Biomass Refineries Based on Hybrid Thermochemical-Biological Processing - An The Green Biorefiner Concept - Fundamentals and Potential Plant Juice in the Biorefinery - Use of Plant Juice as Fermentation Medium BIOMASS PRODUCTION AND PRIMARY BIOREFINERIES Biomass Commercialization and Agriculture Residue Collection The Corn Wet Milling and Corn Dry Milling Industry - A Base for Biorefinery Technology Developments BIOMASS CONVERSION: PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES Enzymes for Biorefineries Biocatalytic and Catalytic Routes for the Production of Bulk and Fine Chemicals from Renewable Resources BIOBASED PRODUCT FAMILY TREES The Key Sugars of Biomass: Availability, Present Non-Food Uses and Potential Future Development Lines Industrial Starch Platform - Status quo of Production, Modification and Application Lignocellulose-based Chemical Products and Product Family Trees Lignin Chemistry and its Role in Biomass Conversion Industrial Lignin Production and Applications Towards Integration of Biorefinery and Microbial Amino Acid Production Protein-based Polymers: Mechanistic Foundations for Bioproduction and Engineering New Syntheses with Oils and Fats as Renewable Raw Materials for the Chemical Industry Industrial Development and Application of Biobased Oleochemicals Phytochemicals, Dyes, and Pigments in the Biorefinery Context Adding Color to Green Chemistry? An Overview of the Fundamentals and Potential of Chlorophylls BIOBASED INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, MATERIALS AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS Industrial Chemicals from Biomass - Industrial Concepts Succinic Acid - A Model Building Block for Chemical Production from Renewable Resources Polylactic Acid from Renewable Resources Biobased Consumer Products for Cosmetics BIOBASED INDUSTRY: ECONOMY, COMMERCIALIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY Industrial Biotech - Setting Conditions to Capitalize on the Economic Potential