Life Cycle Analysis
The biobased economy will grow rapidly during the 21st century. A combination of low cost plant raw materials and gradually improving biorefinery process technologies for converting these raw materials into a variety of fuels, chemicals, materials, foods and feeds will drive the adoption of the biobased economy. The biological sciences will have a particularly powerful impact on both the raw materials and the processing technologies underlying the biobased economy.
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Biomass Conversion
We are in the early phases of a truly historic transition--from an economy based largely on petroleum to a more diversified economy in which renewable plant biomass will become a significant feedstock for both fuel and chemical production. The development of the petroleum refining industry over the past century provides many instructive lessons for the future biobased economy and also many reasons for supposing that the new biobased economy will be different from the hydrocarbon economy in crucial ways.
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Research Facilites
Take a look at the facilites and equipment used at the Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory at Michigan State University.
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