Ramchuran, Santosh OO’Brien, Frances FDube, Noluthando NRamdas, V2023-09-222023-09-222023-06Ramchuran, S.O., O’Brien, Frances F, Dube, N.N. & Ramdas, V. 2023. An overview of green processes and technologies, biobased chemicals and products for industrial applications. <i>Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 41.</i> http://hdl.handle.net/10204/130852452-2236https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2023.100832http://hdl.handle.net/10204/13085Recently, there has been a paradigm shift towards ‘greener’ processes/products, with emphasis being placed on sustainability. The traditional manufacturing processes require re-working and adapting new methods to ensure that they are more efficient, cleaner and ideally cost-effective. There are multiple biobased market sectors that can be adapted towards a greener initiative, namely, biobased chemicals, biofuels and biomaterials (i.e., biobased foods, bioplastics, biosurfactants and biolubricants). This review focusses on greener and sustainable chemical processes feedstock replacements, and products, with a focussed approach in which bioproducts can be introduced into the petroleum-driven market as direct replacement (the biobased product and petroleum product are chemically identical), functional replacement (two types of products are chemically different however they have similar functions/properties) and/or through novel products (the bioproduct is not similar in properties/structure or function). This article highlights widely adopted biobased chemicals with immediate potential as biorefinery ‘value-added products’; furthermore, current status and future prospects of biological routes to biobased products using raw materials, wastes and residues as renewable resources. The study outlines future prospects and challenges with taking the biological routes to biobased products using renewable resources.AbstractenBiobased sectorBiomassFeedstocksGreen technologiesSustainabilityWaste valorisationArticleRamchuran, S. O., O’Brien, Frances F, Dube, N. N., & Ramdas, V. (2023). An overview of green processes and technologies, biobased chemicals and products for industrial applications. <i>Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 41</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/10204/13085Ramchuran, Santosh O, O’Brien, Frances F, Noluthando N Dube, and V Ramdas "An overview of green processes and technologies, biobased chemicals and products for industrial applications." <i>Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 41</i> (2023) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/13085Ramchuran SO, O’Brien, Frances F, Dube NN, Ramdas V. An overview of green processes and technologies, biobased chemicals and products for industrial applications. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 41. 2023; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/13085.TY - Article AU - Ramchuran, Santosh O AU - O’Brien, Frances F AU - Dube, Noluthando N AU - Ramdas, V AB - Recently, there has been a paradigm shift towards ‘greener’ processes/products, with emphasis being placed on sustainability. The traditional manufacturing processes require re-working and adapting new methods to ensure that they are more efficient, cleaner and ideally cost-effective. There are multiple biobased market sectors that can be adapted towards a greener initiative, namely, biobased chemicals, biofuels and biomaterials (i.e., biobased foods, bioplastics, biosurfactants and biolubricants). This review focusses on greener and sustainable chemical processes feedstock replacements, and products, with a focussed approach in which bioproducts can be introduced into the petroleum-driven market as direct replacement (the biobased product and petroleum product are chemically identical), functional replacement (two types of products are chemically different however they have similar functions/properties) and/or through novel products (the bioproduct is not similar in properties/structure or function). This article highlights widely adopted biobased chemicals with immediate potential as biorefinery ‘value-added products’; furthermore, current status and future prospects of biological routes to biobased products using raw materials, wastes and residues as renewable resources. The study outlines future prospects and challenges with taking the biological routes to biobased products using renewable resources. DA - 2023-06 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR J1 - Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 41 KW - Biobased sector KW - Biomass KW - Feedstocks KW - Green technologies KW - Sustainability KW - Waste valorisation LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2023 SM - 2452-2236 T1 - An overview of green processes and technologies, biobased chemicals and products for industrial applications TI - An overview of green processes and technologies, biobased chemicals and products for industrial applications UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/13085 ER -26931