The application of biotechnology to industrial sustainability.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Series:

Sustainable development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology--Environmental aspects.

Biotechnology.

Enzymes--Industrial applications.

Enzymes.

Industrial microbiology.

Physical Description:

148 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD, [2001]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9264195467

OCLC:

48617632