Future Sources of Organic Raw Materials: CHEMRAWN I. CHEMRAWN Chemical Research Applied to Words Needs

Content: 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword, Page v, G.R. Brown, L.E. St-Pierre
Availability and demand patterns for fossil hydrocarbons, Pages 1-20, H.R. WARMAN
Oil shale and tar sands, Pages 21-32, ANGELO A. MONTAGNA
Coal and the human need for energy, Pages 33-40, CARL E. BAGGE
Availability and demand patterns for renewable resources—Forestry, Pages 41-49, LENNART G. STOCKMAN
Agriculture, Pages 51-62, R.S. LOOMIS
Availability and demand patterns for renewable resources: Urban and industrial wastes, Pages 63-69, MICHAEL E. HENSTOCK
Future of the synthetic chemical industry in Japan, Pages 71-78, MITSUO YAMAGUCHI
Matter: A resource ignored by thermodynamics—Renewable resource economics, Pages 79-87, NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN
The reference materials system—a framework for substitution analysis, Pages 89-98, N.K. BHAGAT, K.C. HOFFMAN
The organic materials system: Toward making practical choices, Pages 99-107, R. STEPHEN BERRY
Climate and its impact on renewable resources, Pages 109-119, F. KENNETH HARE
Changing location of the chemical industry, Pages 121-128, PETER H. SPITZ, LAWRENCE H. WEISS
Research and management of natural resources, Pages 129-135, RICCARDO GALLI
The structure and chemistry of coal: the search for a typical coal molecule, Pages 137-153, SUJIT K. CHAKRABARTTY
Synthesis gas technology, Pages 155-166, EBERHARD K. GOEKE, ROLF E. WETZEL
Chemicals, feedstocks and fuels from Fischer-Tropsch and related syntheses, Pages 167-183, H. SCHULZ
Chemicals production directly from synthesis gas, Pages 185-193, IRVING WENDER
Homogeneous catalysis, Pages 195-209, JÜRGEN FALBE
Heterogeneous catalysis at the end of the century, Pages 211-217, ROBERT B. ANDERSON
Extraction, preparation, transport and storage of solid carbonaceous material, Pages 219-231, ROBERT A. DURIE
The liquefaction of solid carbonaceous materials, Pages 233-255, L.E. SWABB JR., G.K. VICK, T. ACZEL
Pyrolysis of solid carbonaceous materials, Pages 257-267, W. EISENHUT
Prospects for photon-induced syntheses of organic raw materials, Pages 269-281, MICHAEL J. BERRY
Chemicals from tar processing, Pages 283-297, GERD COLLIN
Carbons from selected organic feedstocks, Pages 299-313, PHILIP L. WALKER JR.
Peat as a source of chemical raw materials, Pages 315-323, P.I. BELKEVICH, I.I. LISHTVAN, G.P. VIRYASOV, G.V. NAUMOVA
Limits to the productive capacity of the biosphere, Pages 325-332, PIETER BURINGH
Biomass for non-food use, Pages 333-342, ROSCOE F. WARD
Tropical biomass systems, Pages 343-353, NORMAN MYERS
A new look at natural rubber production, Pages 355-363, B.C. SEKHAR
Organic chemicals from the desert, Pages 365-388, E. CAMPOS-LÓPEZ, A. ROMÁN ALEMANY
Chemical and biological nitrogen fixation, Pages 389-400, THOMAS A. LARUE
Future challenges and opportunities for agricultural and forestry research, Pages 401-412, SYLVAN H. WITTWER
Trends in available feedstock composition, Pages 413-425, LUCIEN SAJUS
Future feedstocks from petroleum—oil and gas: new petroleum production technologies, Pages 427-434, F. HUGHES
New petroleum refining technology, Pages 435-448, VLADIMIR HAENSEL
Advances in production of olefins from residual oils, Pages 449-456, TAISEKI KUNUGI, DAIZO KUNII, AKITO KOBAYASHI
Tar sands and related products as chemical feedstocks, Pages 457-466, C.W. BOWMAN
Oil shales as sources of chemical feedstocks, Pages 467-481, V.A. PROSKURYAKOV, V.I. YAKOVLEV
New aspects of the production of chemicals from biomass, Pages 483-494, V.P. KARLIVAN
The ethanol based economy—the Brazilian experiment, Pages 495-511, WALTER BORZANI
Enzymatic production of chemicals, Pages 513-531, OSKAR R. ZABORSKY
Carbohydrates as renewable feedstocks, Pages 533-542, J. COOMBS, R. KHAN, R.C. RIGHELATO, A.J. VLITOS
Anaerobic microbial digestion as a route to methane and renewable carbon sources, Pages 543-549, S.J. PIRT
Organic chemicals from the sea, Pages 551-563, V.J. CHAPMAN
Fibres to meet the world's expanding needs, Pages 565-577, EDWIN C. JAHN
Solar energy use through biology—past and future, Pages 579-599, D.O. HALL
Photosynthesis and biosynthetic pathways to chemicals, Pages 601-612, J.A. BASSHAM
A new understanding of the carbohydrate system, Pages 613-625, R.H. MARCHESSAULT, J. ST-PIERRE
The challenge of lignin, Pages 627-636, KNUT KRINGSTAD
The future of lipids from plant and animal sources, Pages 637-648, C. BOELHOUWER
Genetic engineering of microorganisms for the production of biomedically and industrially important materials, Pages 649-650, HERBERT W. BOYER
Index of Contributors, Page 651