Bioproducts are nonfeed or food industrial goods composed to a significant degree from biological products, renewable domestic agricultural materials, or forestry materials. Hydraulic fluids, lubricants, biopharmaceuticals, chemicals, and building materials all fall within the product range of bioproducts. There are a wide variety of feedstocks that can be used to make bioproducts, including gr...

ESSENTIAL AND VEGETABLE OILS: RAW MATERIALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BIOPRODUCTS IN CLASSES EXPERIMENTAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. A schedule was prepared for three undergraduate classes the discipline of experimental organic chemistry obtaining bioproducts. As natural raw materials, lavender flowers and cinnamon peels were used to obtain hydrolates essential oils (Class 1), coconut avocado pulp vegetab...

549 In this column, TAPPI Journal spoke with Dr. Shri Ramaswamy of the University of Minnesota, where he is a professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (BBE). He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Paper Science and Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Syracuse, as well as an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.S. in Physics ...

Photosynthetic microalgae have attracted significant attention as they can serve as important sources for cosmetic, food and pharmaceutical products, industrial materials and even biofuel biodiesels. However, current productivity of microalga-based processes is still very low, which has restricted their scale-up application. In addition to various efforts in strain improvement and cultivation o...