Platform biochemicals for a biorenewable chemical industry

Biotechnology-a sustainable alternative for chemical industry.

This review outlines the current and emerging applications of biotechnology, particularly in the production and processing of chemicals, for sustainable development. Biotechnology is "the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents". Some of the defining technologies of modern biotechnology include genetic engineering; culture of reco...

Tourism Gaining Cogency from an Industry-Driven Force to a Public -Platform Choice

Biorenewable materials from isosorbide

As petroleum feedstocks start to dwindle, it is becoming more important to find acceptable replacements for materials made from these feedstocks. Polyurethanes have classically been synthesized from petroleum-based feedstocks, and depending on its properties, polyurethanes can be used in everything from foams, to construction plastics. In recent years there has been an increasing amount of rese...

Data Mining for the Chemical Process Industry

Advancements in sensors and database technologies have resulted in the collection of huge amounts of process data from chemical plants. A number of process quantities such as temperature, pressure, flow rates, level, composition, and pH can be easily measured. Chemical processes are dynamic systems and are equipped with hundreds or thousands of sensors that generate readings at regular interval...

A Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Big Data Analytics Platform Selection

Big data sizes are constantly increasing. Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques are applied on big data sets. Analytics based on large data samples reveals and leverages business change. The popularity of big data analytics platforms, which are often available as open-source, has not remained unnoticed by big companies. Google uses MapReduce for PageRank and inverted indexes....