INTEGRATION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF BIOBASED MONOMERS AND POLYMERS

摘要

Renewable resources are considered by many experts as alternative feedstock not only for energetic applications, e.g., biofuels, but also as an important resource for chemical manufacturing. "Green", biogenic feedstock is a promising candidate to, at least, partially substitute fossil-based raw-materials for chemical manufacturing in the future. Renewable feedstock is available, in principle, in abundance but, due to regional demand and supply, a competition with other ways of utilization could arise. It is therefore essential to develop highly efficient and effective ways to make use of renewable feedstock-materials in a so-called "cascadic" approach utilizing the same feedstock in multiple ways (i.e., as food and feed, for substantial use, for energetic means, as fertilizer).