The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass Processing and Conversion Book

Foreword vii

Preface xi

Contributors xiii

About the Editors xvii

1 Introduction of Biomass and Biorefineries 1
Birgit Kamm

2 Recent Advances in Green Chemistry 27
Nicholas Gathergood

3 Biorefinery with Ionic Liquids 75
Haibo Xie, Wujun Liu, Ian Beadham, and Nicholas Gathergood

4 Biorefinery with Water 135
X. Philip Ye, Leming Cheng, Haile Ma, Biljana Bujanovic, Mangesh J. Goundalkar, and Thomas E. Amidon

5 Supercritical CO2 as an Environmentally Benign Medium for Biorefinery 181
Ray Marriott and Emily Sin

6 Dissolution and Application of Cellulose in NaOH/Urea Aqueous Solution 205
Xiaopeng Xiong and Jiangjiang Duan

7 Organosolv Biorefining Platform for Producing Chemicals, Fuels, and Materials from Lignocellulose 241
Xuejun Pan

8 Pyrolysis Oils from Biomass and Their Upgrading 263
Qirong Fu, Haibo Xie, and Dimitris S. Argyropoulos

9 Microwave Technology for Lignocellulosic Biorefinery 281
Takashi Watanabe and Tomohiko Mitani

10 Biorefinery with Microbes 293
Cuimin Hu and Zongbao K. Zhao

11 Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biomass Conversion 313
Aiqin Wang, Changzhi Li, Mingyuan Zheng, and Tao Zhang

12 Catalytic Conversion of Glycerol 349
Jie Xu, Weiqiang Yu, Hong Ma, Feng Wang, Fang Lu, Mukund Ghavre, and Nicholas Gathergood

13 Ultrasonics for Enhanced Fluid Biofuel Production 375
David Grewell and Melissa Montalbo-Lomboy

14 Advanced Membrane Technology for Products Separation in Biorefinery 407
Shenghai Li, Suobo Zhang, and Weihui Bi

15 Assessment of the Ecotoxicological and Environmental Effects of Biorefineries 435
Kerstin Bluhm, Sebastian Heger, Matthew T. Agler, Sibylle Maletz, Andreas Sch€affer, Thomas-Benjamin Seiler, Largus T. Angenent, and Henner Hollert

Index 469