Ionic liquids based processing of renewable and sustainable biopolymers

Abstract

In view of immense potential of sustainable and renewable biopolymers for future biorefineries, development of green and carbon economic methods for their processing are highly demanding. Despite of numerous protocols established so far, innovations leading to sustainable methods for integration of multi-step volarization of low value biopolymeric feedstock are still highly concerned. One of such innovations is the ionic liquids based biorefinery concept for various advanced biofuels, valuable chemicals and other bio-products. Superiority of ionic liquids is due to their green, non-degradative, non-toxic, nono-volatile and chemically and thermally stable profile for upgrading renewable biopolymers based biorefinery. Some processing applications of ionic liquids for biofuels and fine chemicals production are covered in this chapter.