Bioenergy and Biorefining Processes

利用非粮食作物和木质材料生产生物燃料和可再生化学品将显著减少温室气体排放，增加更清洁绿色行业的就业机会，降低进口化石燃料的成本，并利用加拿大等国当地现有的生物质资源等。拟议的创新研究将努力克服主要瓶颈，使木质纤维残渣生产第二代生物乙醇在经济上可行，并展示利用可再生生物质生产一些平台化学品，这些化学品将作为一些有用材料的前体，作为有限的基于石油的产品的替代品。**

Biofuel and renewable chemical production utilizing non-food crops and woody material will bring about significant reduction in green house gas emissions, improve possibilities of employment in cleaner-greener industries, reduce costs of importing fossil based fuels and make use of locally available biomass resources in countries like Canada, etc. The innovative research proposed will endeavor to overcome the major bottlenecks and make second generation bioethanol from lignocellulosic residues economically feasible and demonstrate production of some platform chemicals from renewable biomass which will serve as precursors to a number of useful materials as an alternate to finite petro-based products.**