Plant oil renewable resources as green alternatives in polymer science
Jade University of Applied Sciences · Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · +3 more institutions
Abstract
The utilization of plant oil renewable resources as raw materials for monomers and polymers is discussed and reviewed. In an age of increasing oil prices, global warming and other environmental problems (e.g. waste) the change from fossil feedstock to renewable resources can considerably contribute to a sustainable development in the future. Especially plant derived fats and oils bear a large potential for the substitution of currently used petrochemicals, since monomers, fine chemicals and polymers can be derived from these resources in a straightforward fashion. The synthesis of monomers as well as polymers from plant fats and oils has already found some industrial application and recent developments in this…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 31.26
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 119
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3Topics & keywords
- Raw material
- Petrochemical
- Renewable energy
- Renewable resource
- Fossil fuel
- Environmental science
- Natural resource economics
- Renewable fuels