About this Research Topic
The transition from fossil resources to renewables will affect all industries but the impact on the chemical and allied industries will be enormous. These industries use largely well-established processes based on chemistry that is often over a hundred years old. As we move towards the use of (bio-) renewables, what chemistries will dominate future manufacturing processes? Increasing legislative pressure and growing user demands for low environmental footprints will add to the challenges and the opportunities ahead. Fortunately, the green chemistry movement has been gaining momentum in recent years and has become a widely accept concept in the chemistry and chemical engineering communities. While green chemistry has been largely focused on creating new, less wasteful and less hazardous processes, there has been growing interest in creating new supply chains based on alternative (bio- or waste-based) resources and in making new safer chemical products.
This Research Topic will address the growing interest in and increasing need for renewable chemistry – both chemical reactions and processes that are based on renewable resources, and on products made from such resources. Ideally, we will create completely new supply chains starting with a renewable (and sustainable) resource and using green chemistry processes to make new, safe and effective products. The conversion processes needed to suit typically complex and highly oxygenated feedstocks such as biomass and can include extractions, separations and downstream chemical and biochemical conversions. These can involve less conventional reactor technology such as microwave processing. To be consistent with new and likely future legislation, products should be safe to use for us and for the environment (recyclable and/or biodegradable).
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Green chemical reactions for conversions of bio-based chemicals
• Creation of platform molecules from biomass
• Platform molecule chemistry
• Extractions from biomass
• Separations of biomass
• New green and sustainable chemical products
• Uses for chemical products derived from renewable resources.
• Drivers for renewable chemistry including legislation and customer pressure.
• New green and sustainable supply chains
This Research Topic will address the growing interest in and increasing need for renewable chemistry – both chemical reactions and processes that are based on renewable resources, and on products made from such resources. Ideally, we will create completely new supply chains starting with a renewable (and sustainable) resource and using green chemistry processes to make new, safe and effective products. The conversion processes needed to suit typically complex and highly oxygenated feedstocks such as biomass and can include extractions, separations and downstream chemical and biochemical conversions. These can involve less conventional reactor technology such as microwave processing. To be consistent with new and likely future legislation, products should be safe to use for us and for the environment (recyclable and/or biodegradable).
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Green chemical reactions for conversions of bio-based chemicals
• Creation of platform molecules from biomass
• Platform molecule chemistry
• Extractions from biomass
• Separations of biomass
• New green and sustainable chemical products
• Uses for chemical products derived from renewable resources.
• Drivers for renewable chemistry including legislation and customer pressure.
• New green and sustainable supply chains
Keywords: Renewable chemistry, platform molecules, bio-based chemicals, bio-extractions
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