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which absorbs greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide and improves the ecological environment with properties of renewability and environment friendliness [3]. On the
other hand, the comprehensive development and utilization of raw materials from oil
plants have wide application prospects such as co-producing of energy, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, fodder and fertilizer products to realize the replacement of petrochemical products [4]. Meanwhile, the produced products can reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and particulate matter releases to improve the ecological environment. The
common problem in economy and society of China is how to protect the ecological
environment and realize the sustainable supply of energy resources. Full use of noncultivated land resources to promote industrial oil plants can be a new way to solve
the problem of sustainable economic and social development in China. Therefore,
it is of great significance to develop the industrial oil plants industry to safeguard
China’s energy security, alleviate ecological and environmental crisis, and increase
farmers’ income [5, 6].
As the green and the poverty alleviation industry, industrial oil plants have
attracted a lot of interest [7–9]. The regional distribution of industrial oil plants
mainly located in mountainous areas, and considering the particularity of oil products, the Central Committee of the Party and the State Council attach great importance
to the development of industrial woody oil plants, which has been integrated into
the national food and oil security strategy with policies fully guaranteed. It has great
development potentials. The industrial oil plants species such as Camellia oleifera
fruit shell, walnut, tung tree, Litsea cubeba, are widely distributed and cultivated
in China (about 120 million Mu) [5]. The oil plant resource is abundant, amounting to the great potential of industrial oil plants. Industrial oil plants can not only
be processed into high-quality edible vegetable oil, but also partially replace some
petrochemical resources with industrial raw materials, and the demand in the market
is huge. It is suggested that the annual demand in 2014 for vegetable oil in China
reached 34.7 million tons (27 million tons for food and 7.7 million tons for industrial
use), and the output value was over 200 billion yuan [10].
Despite the bright future of industrial woody oil plants, there are constraints in
the development of industrialization of industrial oil plants. At present, the industry
is still in the initial stage of development, lacking neither comprehensive design on
industrial chain nor integrative management concepts on R&D. Now, the processing
enterprises have large quantities but are mini-type distributed with an extensive mode
of development and structural overcapacity. With regard to the processing technology, there are a number of vital problems to solve in terms of slow efficiency on
fresh fruits picking, shortage of exclusive drying and storing technology, insufficient
utilization of oil plants resource, limited production type, mostly manufacturing primary products, inconsequent products structure and absence of high value-added
iconic end-products. Moreover, many of the bioactivity substances in oil plants are
not effectively utilized [3, 11, 12].
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which absorbs greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide and improves the ecological environment with properties of renewability and environment friendliness [3]. On the
other hand, the comprehensive development and utilization of raw materials from oil
plants have wide application prospects such as co-producing of energy, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, fodder and fertilizer products to realize the replacement of petrochemical products [4]. Meanwhile, the produced products can reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and particulate matter releases to improve the ecological environment. The
common problem in economy and society of China is how to protect the ecological
environment and realize the sustainable supply of energy resources. Full use of noncultivated land resources to promote industrial oil plants can be a new way to solve
the problem of sustainable economic and social development in China. Therefore,
it is of great significance to develop the industrial oil plants industry to safeguard
China’s energy security, alleviate ecological and environmental crisis, and increase
farmers’ income [5, 6].
As the green and the poverty alleviation industry, industrial oil plants have
attracted a lot of interest [7–9]. The regional distribution of industrial oil plants
mainly located in mountainous areas, and considering the particularity of oil products, the Central Committee of the Party and the State Council attach great importance
to the development of industrial woody oil plants, which has been integrated into
the national food and oil security strategy with policies fully guaranteed. It has great
development potentials. The industrial oil plants species such as Camellia oleifera
fruit shell, walnut, tung tree, Litsea cubeba, are widely distributed and cultivated
in China (about 120 million Mu) [5]. The oil plant resource is abundant, amounting to the great potential of industrial oil plants. Industrial oil plants can not only
be processed into high-quality edible vegetable oil, but also partially replace some
petrochemical resources with industrial raw materials, and the demand in the market
is huge. It is suggested that the annual demand in 2014 for vegetable oil in China
reached 34.7 million tons (27 million tons for food and 7.7 million tons for industrial
use), and the output value was over 200 billion yuan [10].
Despite the bright future of industrial woody oil plants, there are constraints in
the development of industrialization of industrial oil plants. At present, the industry
is still in the initial stage of development, lacking neither comprehensive design on
industrial chain nor integrative management concepts on R&D. Now, the processing
enterprises have large quantities but are mini-type distributed with an extensive mode
of development and structural overcapacity. With regard to the processing technology, there are a number of vital problems to solve in terms of slow efficiency on
fresh fruits picking, shortage of exclusive drying and storing technology, insufficient
utilization of oil plants resource, limited production type, mostly manufacturing primary products, inconsequent products structure and absence of high value-added
iconic end-products. Moreover, many of the bioactivity substances in oil plants are
not effectively utilized [3, 11, 12].