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Nature provides us with an abundance of chemical potential. Presenting an overview of the use of bioresources in the 21st century, Introduction to Chemicals from Biomass covers resources, chemical composition of biomass, key factors affecting composition, utilization of wastes, extraction technologies, controlled pyrolysis, fermentation, platform molecules, and green chemical technologies for their conversion to valuable chemicals. The text shows how smaller volume chemicals could become bulk chemicals as a result of a greater exploitation of biomass products, making it an important resource for academic and industrial scientists and researchers.

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one best seller by Nuno Cunha Lopes

4 Stars
February 16, 2009
Thank you for the oportunity to give my impression about this book. I'm an energy engineer in Portugal. My overview about the problem of biomass is linked with all the energy problems, and in other way connected with the forest fire safety. What I had reed in this book is that, if we as citizens, of the new world, were prepared to became more conscient consumers, we can use biomass to produce the same products that we obtain by petroleum. The challenge is education of consumers, because we can keep in biorefineries, the same products that we obtain in petro-refineries. Nuno Cunha Lopes

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