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With the increasing awareness and concern about the dependency on fossil resources and the depletion of crude oil reserves, experts from industrial biotechnology, renewable resources, green chemistry, and biorefineries are stimulating the transition from the fossil-based to the bio-based economy. This text confronts scientific and economic challenges and strategies for making this crucial transition. Renewable Resources for Biorefineries is the work of a strongly interdisciplinary authorship, offering perspectives from biology, chemistry, biochemical engineering, materials science, and industry. This unique approach provides an opportunity for a much broader coverage of biomass and valorisation than has been attempted in previous titles. This book also represents the fundamentally important technical and policy aspects of a bio-based economy, to ground this important science in a realistic and viable economic framework. Chapters in this book cover a diverse range of topics, including: advanced generation bioenergy sectors; biobased polymers and materials; chemical platform molecules; industrial crops and biorefineries; financing and policy for change; and valorisation of biomass waste streams. This is an ideal book for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules on Renewable resources, green chemistry, sustainable development, environmental science, agricultural science and environmental technology. It will also benefit industry professionals and product developers who are looking to improve economic and environmental ways to utilise renewable resources in current and future biorefineries.

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Dr. Rafael Luque is currently a Ramon y Cajal fellow in the Departamento de Quimica Organica of Universidad de Cordoba (UCO) in Spain. He got his Ph.D from Universidad de Cordoba (2002-2005), spending 9 months in the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at York University under the supervision of Dr. Duncan Macquarrie. Following a 3 year postdoctoral in the Green Chemistry Centre under the supervision of Prof. James Clark (2005-2008), he returned back to UCO where he was recently granted a prestigious Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (2009-2014) coming up second at a national level in the broad area of Chemistry. Dr. Luque is co-author of more than 75 publications (2005-2010, h index= 14), 2 patents, more than 15 book chapters and 80+ international conference contributions (>15 oral presentations) including several invited and keynote speeches at International conferences. His work has received more than 450 citations (2005-2010) and in the past 5 years, with many recognitions to his work as hot articles, highlights in synfacts and other publications, press articles and journal covers. Dr. Luque is editor-in-chief of the book Handbook of biofuels production: processes and technologies to be published by Woodhead publishing/CRC Press in September 2010. Currently, Dr. Luque is also guest editor of a special issue of C-heteroatom couplings for the journal Current Organic Synthesis and co-editor (with Prof. Jose Goldemberg) of a biofuels themed issue for the journal Energy and Environmental Science from the RSC. His research interests are Green Chemistry applied to nanomaterials, supported metal/metal oxide nanoparticles on porous materials, heterogeneous catalysis and biofuels. Peter Rudolf Seidl - Professor, Graduate Program on Technology of Chemical and Biochemical Processes, EQ/UFRJ (TPQB/EQ/UFRJ), and responsible for the establishment of the Brazilian Green Chemical School (EBQV). Thesis advisor and project coordinator in physical organic chemistry applied to chemical process areas such as petroleum, pharmaceuticals, mineral technology, etc., publishing widely in these areas and holding an international patent on the use of cashew wastes as a raw material. Former President of the Brazilian Chemical Association (ABQ) and active in the organization of meetings and workshops, such as the 1st International Conference on Chemistry of the Amazon (held shortly after Rio 92) and, more recently, the 1st Workshop on Asphaltenes Characterization and Properties held in 2009 and Biorefineries 2010 Recent Advances and New Challenges, held last November. James H Clark is Professor of Chemistry at the University of York, Director of the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, and a Director of the Biorenewables Development Centre, UK. He has been at the forefront of green chemistry worldwide for nearly 20 years.

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