The Application of Biotechnology to Industrial Sustainability [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2001.
In more and more industrial sectors, companies are becoming aware of the importance of sustainable development and of the great potential of biotechnology. Biotechnology can help improve the environmental friendliness of industrial activities and lower both capital expenditure and operating costs. It can also help reduce raw material and energy inputs and waste. This volume brings together for the first time a broad collection of case studies on biotechnology applications in industrial processes and subjects them to detailed analysis in order to tease out essential lessons for industrial managers and for government policy makers. It will encourage the former and provide the latter with basic materials for programme development.
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Background and aims -- Industrial uses of biotechnology -- Alternative techniques of analysis -- Lessons from the case studies -- Kes issues and conclusions.
Case studies. Manufacture of riboflavin (vitamin B2) -- Production of 7-amino-cephalosporanic acid -- Biotechnological production of the antibiotic cephalexin -- Bioprocesses for the manufacture of amino acids -- Manufacture of S-chloropropionic acid -- Enzymatic production of acrylamide - Enzymatic synthesis of acrylic acid -- Enzyme-catalysed synthesis of polyesters -- Polymers from renewable resources -- A vegetable oil degumming enzyme -- Water recovery in a vegetable-processing company.
Removal of bleach residues in textile finishing -- Enzymatic pulp bleaching process -- Use of xylanase as a pulp brightener -- A life cycle assessment of enzyme bleaching of wood pulp -- On-site production of xylanase -- A gypsum-free zinc refinery -- Copper bioleaching technology -- Renewable fuels: ethanol from biomass -- The application of LCA software to bioethanol fuel -- Use of enzymes in oil-well completion.
In more and more industrial sectors, companies are becoming aware of the importance of sustainable development and of the great potential of biotechnology. Biotechnology can help improve the environmental friendliness of industrial activities and lower both capital expenditure and operating costs. It can also help reduce raw material and energy inputs and waste. This volume brings together for the first time a broad collection of case studies on biotechnology applications in industrial processes and subjects them to detailed analysis in order to tease out essential lessons for industrial managers and for government policy makers. It will encourage the former and provide the latter with basic materials for programme development.
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