CHEMPOR 2008: 10th International Chemical & Biological Engineering Conference

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Green Chemistry and the Biorefinery

James Clark

Department of Chemistry, The University of York, UK

An unprecedented set of legislative, economic and social drivers are forcing changes across the lifecycle for chemical products. More ambitious companies are seeing this as an opportunity to develop new, greener products, which are increasingly being sought by consumers. In order to obtain truly green and sustainable products, it is necessary to start with renewable raw materials, which for organic chemical products means biomass.

Future bio-resource derived chemicals will be based on the products of fermentation and controlled pyrolysis including biofuel production, from plant extractables, and from agro- and food wastes. We are already seeing a number of new bio-platform chemicals coming onto the market. It is very important that we build on these sustainable feedstocks with green chemical processing and, and green product design and using appropriate environmental impact metrics. In this way we can look forward to a future chemical industry that can sustainably meet the demands of a growing world population.

Prof. James Clark has an international reputation for his work in green chemistry and is a founding director of the Green Chemistry Network. He was also the founding Scientific Editor for the world's leading journal in the field, Green Chemistry, and is also an author of numerous books on the subject.
He now holds the Chair of Industrial & Applied Chemistry and heads the Green Chemistry Centre which integrates green chemistry research, industrial collaboration and educational developments and issues relevant to the public understanding of science.
He is also the Director of the Greenchemistry Centre of Industrial Collaboration. Professor Clark also heads the Green Chemistry Group. He oversees all research and teaching activities of the group and points the future direction of the group. His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis and supported reagents and the exploitation of renewable resources.

More: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/chem/staff/jc.html