The application of biotechnology to industrial sustainability.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Series: Sustainable development
Publisher: OECD; OECD Publishing
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Biotechnology -- Environmental aspects.; Enzymes -- Industrial applications.; Industrial microbiology.
Description: "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"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Background and aims; title: Industrial uses of biotechnology; title: Alternative techniques of analysis; title: Lessons from the case studies; title: Kes issues and conclusions.; title: Case studies. Manufacture of riboflavin (vitamin B2); title: Production of 7-amino-cephalosporanic acid; title: Biotechnological production of the antibiotic cephalexin; title: Bioprocesses for the manufacture of amino acids; title: Manufacture of S-chloropropionic acid; title: Enzymatic production of acrylamide - Enzymatic synthesis of acrylic acid; title: Enzyme-catalysed synthesis of polyesters; title: Polymers from renewable resources; title: A vegetable oil degumming enzyme; title: Water recovery in a vegetable-processing company.; title: Removal of bleach residues in textile finishing; title: Enzymatic pulp bleaching process; title: Use of xylanase as a pulp brightener; title: A life cycle assessment of enzyme bleaching of wood pulp; title: On-site production of xylanase; title: A gypsum-free zinc refinery; title: Copper bioleaching technology; title: Renewable fuels: ethanol from biomass; title: The application of LCA software to bioethanol fuel; title: Use of enzymes in oil-well completion.