@inbook{373fb082ecd04a2e8e35fecb45bbca4c,
title = "Bio-based chemicals from biorefining: carbohydrate conversion and utilisation",
abstract = "The quest for sustainable sources of fuels and chemicals to meet the demands of a rapidly rising global population represents one of this century's grand challenges. Biomass offers the most readily implemented, and low cost, solution for transportation fuels, and the only non-petroleum route to organic molecules for the manufacture of bulk, fine and speciality chemicals and polymers. Chemical processing of such biomass-derived building blocks requires catalysts compatible with hydrophilic, bulky substrates to facilitate the selective deoxygenation of highly functional bio-molecules to their target products. This chapter addresses the challenges associated with carbohydrate utilisation as a sustainable feedstock, highlighting innovations in catalyst and process design that are needed to deliver high-value chemicals from biomass-derived building blocks.",
keywords = "Biofuels, Heterogeneous catalysis, Lignocellulose, Platform chemicals, Porous materials",
author = "K. Wilson and A.F. Lee",
year = "2014",
month = apr,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1533/9780857097385.2.624",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-85709-521-3",
series = "Woodhead publishing series in energy",
publisher = "Woodhead",
number = "53",
pages = "624--658",
editor = "Waldron, {Keith W.}",
booktitle = "Advances in biorefineries",
}