Bio based factory: Sustainable chemistry from wood Ghent University
Fossil oil depletion imposes a societal driven shift to non-edible biomass as a renewable
feedstock for chemicals. Wood is among the most abundant carbon sources on earth, and is
ideal to address this challenge. Wood contains (hemi)cellulose (carbohydrates) and lignin, a
polymeric network of arenes. Biorefineries mostly focus on the former, using lignin only as low
value fuel. This project's ambitious aim is to ...