Publication Date:
2012-08-11
Description:
Most of the carbon-based compounds currently manufactured by the chemical industry are derived from petroleum. The rising cost and dwindling supply of oil have been focusing attention on possible routes to making chemicals, fuels, and solvents from biomass instead. In this context, many recent studies have assessed the relative merits of applying different dedicated crops to chemical production. Here, we highlight the opportunities for diverting existing residual biomass--the by-products of present agricultural and food-processing streams--to this end.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tuck, Christopher O -- Perez, Eduardo -- Horvath, Istvan T -- Sheldon, Roger A -- Poliakoff, Martyn -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Aug 10;337(6095):695-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1218930.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22879509" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Biofuels
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*Biomass
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Carbohydrates/*chemistry
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Crops, Agricultural
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Food
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Lignin/chemistry
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Plant Proteins/chemistry
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Proteins/*chemistry
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*Waste Products
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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