Biobased products offer substantial economic and environmental benefits, but understanding how to commercialize this requires a comprehensive look at the process, including feedstocks, technologies, product slate, supply chain, policy, financing, and environmental impact.

Covering biobased products in a broad context, this book examines the environmental and economic impacts, compares US and EU policies, explores the factors affecting financing, and considers biological conversion, catalytic conversion, and separations.

By examining the process from several critical perspectives in the supply chain, this book provides chemical engineers with a better understanding of challenges, opportunities, risks, and benefits of commercialization.

Seth W Snyder is an adjunct professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. In addition he serves as the section leader of Process Technology Research at Argonne National Laboratory, where his team develops new technologies for biobased products, bioenergy, and water.

An Introduction to Commercializing Biobased Products: Opportunities, Challenges, Benefits, and Risks; The Changing Landscape: The History and Evolution of Bio-Based Products; Bioenergy Crops: Delivering More Than Energy; Butanol Production by Fermentation: Efficient Bioreactors; Catalysis's Role in Bioproducts Update; Separation Technologies for Biobased Product Formation - Opportunities and Challenges; Lignin as Feedstock for Fibers and Chemicals; Update on Research and Development of Microbial Oils; Bioprocessing of Cost-competitive Biobased Organic Acids; Carbon Dioxide Covenrsion to Chemicals with Emphasis on using Renewable Energy/Resources to Drive the Conversion; Methodological Considerations, Drivers and Trends in the Life Cycle Analysis of Bioproducts; Design and Planning of Sustainable Supply Chains for Biobased Products; US Government Bioproducts Policy "Watch What We Do, Not What We Say"; Study on Investment Climate in Biobased Industries in the Netherlands; A Monte Carlo-Based Methodology for Valuing Refineries Producing Aviation Biofuel; A Path Forward: Investment Cooperation between the United States and China in a Bioeconomy