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Bulk Chemical Production: Chemo- and Bio-integrated Strategies

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The fast and stable development of chemical industry demands more sustainable resources, feasible processes, and available techniques to produce the needed chemicals which are continuously increasing and changing. Chemical strategy has long been used in the history of bulk chemical production and dominates today’s chemical industry. The fast development of biotechnology has also enabled green bioconversion processes for the production of an extensive range of bio-based chemicals from renewable biomass. However, in order to economically and technically compete with traditional petroleum-based chemicals, it is essential to develop sustainable and feasible strategies that are capable of producing chemicals with high performance and low production cost. This review summarizes the history of bulk chemicals production, the bottleneck questions in chemical production through bio- or chemo-strategy. In addition, the review addresses the integrated strategies combining bio-, chemo-resources, processes, and techniques, which represent the near-term trends and opportunities for the production of bulk chemicals, more sustainably and broadly.

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  1. College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China

    Huibin Zou

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-based Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China

    Guang Zhao, Hui Liu & Mo Xian

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Zou, H., Zhao, G., Liu, H., Xian, M. (2016). Bulk Chemical Production: Chemo- and Bio-integrated Strategies. In: Xian, M. (eds) Sustainable Production of Bulk Chemicals. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7475-8_1

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