Chemical Engineering for Renewables Conversion: Volume 42

Biomass has received considerable attention as a sustainable feedstock that can replace diminishing fossil fuels for the production of energy and chemicals. At the present moment in the oil refining, petrochemical and chemical industry, after fractionation of crude oil, various fractions are upgraded either to fuels or functionalized to produce intermediates and specialty chemicals. An analogous concept of biorefining is based on the utilization of biomass as a renewable source of carbon, which could be transformed to valuable chemicals. Although various aspects of biomass transformations are frequently discussed in the literature, chemical engineering aspects of such transformations are commonly not considered. The aim of the present book is to fill this void.

Autorentext
Dmitry Murzin is Professor of Chemical Technology at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, and for the past 10 years he has served as Professor at the Finland University's Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering. Previously, he headed the chemicals division of BASF Corporation in Moscow. He also spent seven years as a researcher in the Department of Catalysis at the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow. From 20092013 Murzin served as Vice President of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. Murzin is author or co-author of more than 650 journal articles and book chapters.

Inhalt

1. Engineering Aspects of Bioethanol Synthesis T. Riitonen, V. Eta, S. Hyvärinen, L. J. Jonsson and J.-P. Mikkola

2. Biomass Pyrolysis R.W. Nachenius, W. Prins, F. Ronsse and R.H. Venderbosch

3. Hydrotreating of Triglyceride-Based Feedstocks in Refineries David Kubicka, and Vratislav Tukac

4. Chemical Reaction Engineering of Biomass Conversion Tapio Salmi

5. Chromatographic Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Hydrolysates Jari Heinonen, and Tuomo Sainio