oil-based materials, biofuels and high-value chemical products will be of particular
interest to oil plant researchers, producers and end-users.
It is impossible to achieve sustainable development without deploying green
products and technologies in all human activities. Industrial oil plant is becoming
an important feedstock for bioenergy, chemicals, oil-based materials and pharmaceuticals. With the continuing improvement of the human living standard, it is
urgent to develop renewable energy and chemical products which are of low
eco-toxicity and environmentally benign. Actively and creatively addressing global
problems especially on climate change, energy shortage and ecological crisis has
become a global consensus, which calls for green and innovation-driven development of green products and clean technologies. Industrial oil plant is certainly one
of the important renewable resources for displacing the chemical products derived
from petroleum, natural gas and coal. The book Industrial Oil Plant: Application
Principles and Green Technologies clearly demonstrates that researchers are ready
to tackle those challenges.
Xiaotao Bi, Ph.D., PEng, FCAE
Professor in Chemical
and Biological Engineering
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
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