Description

This book will explore our forests as the most readily available and renewable source of carbon as well as the building block of chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals as the next 100 years gradually push consumers toward alternate sources of chemicals. Meeting these needs from trees requires that new chemistry be developed so that plant materials is converted to commodity chemicals. This focused discussion on ongoing global efforts at creativity using forest and biomass based renewable materials will include six different mechanisms for bringing about change on this very innovative topic.

Reviews

"The papers provide a good review of the literature, creating a sound foundation for the science to be subsequently developed, making the volume absolutely outstanding. I have not seen a conference volume for the science and technology community that did such a wonderful job of presenting a resource for new ideas so clearly. I myself learned some connections I had never thought of, nor even visualized"--Current Engineering Practice

Product Details

613 pages; 10 halftones, 248 line illus.; 6 x 9; ISBN13: 978-0-8412-3981-4ISBN10: 0-8412-3981-9

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