Going back to nature: a look at processing systems for white biotech applications [...] by GEA liquid processing

摘要

The concept of "white biotech" is nothing new. People have been using natural products to create health-giving products for millennia. However, in the first half of the twentieth century organic chemistry developed ways to create many of these products artificially: some using oil, a diminishing resource; many more using other chemicals and highly polluting, energy consuming processes. As we have all become increasingly aware of the limitations of the world's oil reserves, and the need to protect the environment, so biotechnology has taken over.