Author: Books for Business Publisher: ISBN: 9780894991486 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 120
Book Description
This report examines potential new crops and traditional crops for industrial uses including replacements for petroleum and imported strategic materials; replacements for imported newsprint, wood rosins, rubbers, and oils; and degradable plastics. The analysis includes an assessment of the technical, institutional, economic and policy constraints to the development of crops for these uses; discussion of programs available for assistance; and examination of the potential implications of using agricultural commodities as industrial raw materials.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309175402 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
Petroleum-based industrial products have gradually replaced products derived from biological materials. However, biologically based products are making a comebackâ€"because of a threefold increase in farm productivity and new technologies. Biobased Industrial Products envisions a biobased industrial future, where starch will be used to make biopolymers and vegetable oils will become a routine component in lubricants and detergents. Biobased Industrial Products overviews the U.S. land resources available for agricultural production, summarizes plant materials currently produced, and describes prospects for increasing varieties and yields. The committee discusses the concept of the biorefinery and outlines proven and potential thermal, mechanical, and chemical technologies for conversion of natural resources to industrial applications. The committee also illustrates the developmental dynamics of biobased products through existing examples, as well as products still on the drawing board, and it identifies priorities for research and development.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Publisher: ISBN: Category : Industries Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Considers legislation to provide Army Dept revolving fund to finance natural textile fiber and leather imports into occupied areas, especially Japan.