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Quality Living Through Chemurgy and Green Chemistry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Quality Living Through Chemurgy and Green Chemistry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology
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This book is intended to give readers an appreciation of what the
future holds, as cutting-edge technologies in synthetic biology and
pathway engineering and advanced bioprocessing development pave the
way for providing goods and services to benefit humankind that are
based on the synergy of two biomasses - i.e. of what a renewable
feedstock could yield and an infinite microbial biomass could
provide in terms of enzymes and biocatalysts. This 13-chapter book,
with an introductory treatise on the guiding principles of green
chemistry and engineering metrics, brings together a broad range of
research and innovation agendas and perspectives from industries,
academia and government laboratories using renewable feedstocks
that include macroalgae and lignins. In addition, social-economic
aspects and the pillars of competitiveness in regional cluster
development are explored as we transition from fossil-fuel-based
economies to a circular bioeconomy, with chemurgy and green
chemistry being implicit to the innovation movement. The bulk of
the book covers specific applications including the bioproduction
of amino sugars, dicarboxylic acids, omega-3 fatty acids, starch
and fermentable sugars from lignocellulosic materials, and
phenolics as building blocks for polymer synthesis. Enzymatic
systems for accessing chiral and special-purpose chemicals, as well
as the development of specialized enzymes from macroalgae for
biofuel and biochemical production are also addressed. Research
gaps, hurdles to overcome in various biological processes, and
present achievements in the production of biofuels and biochemicals
from lignocellulosic materials are discussed. Going beyond the
conventional expectation of discussing the production of drop-in
chemicals, the book instead emphasizes how the potential of new
chemicals and materials can be harnessed through innovative
thinking and research. As such, it provides an invaluable reference
source for researchers and graduate students interested in Chemurgy
and Green Chemistry, as well as for practitioners in the field of
industrial biotechnology and biobased industry. Peter C.K. Lau is a
Distinguished Professor at Tianjin Institute of Industrial
Biotechnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an Adjunct
Professor at the Departments of Chemistry and Microbiology &
Immunology, McGill University, Canada.
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