Green Materials from Plant Oils

By Penny Kendall-Reed and Stephen Reed

Book Overview

Finding alternatives to fossil feedstocks is increasing in importance with the challenges of global warming, increasing oil prices and depleting fossil fuel reserves that we currently face. Today, plant oils are important renewable raw materials for the chemical industry and are heavily used for surfactants, cosmetic products and lubricants. This book covers the green chemistry of products and intermediates synthesised from plant oils. Photo-initiated polymerisation and polymerization of vegetable oils in environmental media are covered as well as click reactions to chemically modify vegetable oils. Useful products from plant oils such as polymers, biomaterials, biofibres and lubricants, as well as their further applications, are described. This book is a valuable resource for researchers in academia and industry, biomass producers and suppliers and manufacturers of end-products.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753513137
• ISBN13: 9780753513132
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Pretty pictures, useful record keeping

The pages are broken down by week (March, week 1) and there are enough entry spaces for 6 years. There is almost no text, but the photo captions are nice. Lots of pics of British gardens, but some in the US too.