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Biobased industrial products : priorities for research and commercialization / Committee on Biobased Industrial Products, Board on Biology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotechnology--United States--Forecasting.
- Biotechnology.
- Biotechnology--Government policy--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Petroleum-based industrial products have gradually replaced products derived from biological materials. However, biologically based products are making a comeback -- because of a threefold increase in farm productivity and new technologies.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Overview""; ""2 Raw Material Resource Base""; ""3 Range of Biobased Products""; ""4 Processing Technologies""; ""5 Making the Transition to Biobased Products""; ""References""; ""A Case Study of Lignocellulose Ethanol Processing""; ""B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612081248
- 9780309175401
- 0309175402
- 9781282081246
- 1282081241
- 9780309521857
- 0309521858
- 9780585212746
- 0585212740
- OCLC:
- 44065762
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