Bioenergy and Biorefining Processes

利用非粮食作物和木质材料的生物燃料和可再生化学品生产将大大减少温室气体排放，提高清洁绿色工业就业的可能性，降低进口化石燃料的成本，并利用加拿大等国当地可获得的生物质资源。提出的创新研究将努力克服主要瓶颈，使从木质纤维素残留物中提取的第二代生物乙醇在经济上可行，并演示从可再生生物质中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，作为有限石油基产品的替代品。

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.