Renew­able Raw Mate­ri­als Used For Bio-Based Products

The U.S. has plen­ti­ful forests and crops, good cli­mates, cap­i­tal, and refined tech­nolo­gies for a well-built bio-based indus­try. Giv­en that agri­cul­tur­al and sil­vi­cul­ture pro­duc­tions are ris­ing, increased amount of bio­mass will be avail­able to fos­ter the bio-based indus­try. Pro­gres­sions in biotech­nol­o­gy will sus­tain an end­less sup­ply of crops to the mar­ket. The US has con­sid­er­able resources to spend in a car­bon-econ­o­my that depends on renew­able resources. How­ev­er, the con­ver­sion of indus­tri­al prod­ucts into renew­able resources will need abun­dant and low-cost raw mate­ri­als. Some of them are out­lined below :

For­est Crops

One of the cru­cial sources of raw mate­ri­als for pro­duc­ing wood­en prod­ucts is forests. The area of land facil­i­tat­ing the country’s for­est has been some­what con­sis­tent since the 1930s. How­ev­er, with the increas­ing pub­lic inter­est towards pre­serv­ing forests, the gov­ern­ment is now devis­ing poli­cies to aid the con­ver­sion of for­est lands into bet­ter uses such as wildlife areas and parks that halt the pro­duc­tion of tim­ber. Look­ing at the future, the for­est areas can be uti­lized for plant­i­ng sil­vi­cul­ture crops which can, in turn, be used for pro­duc­ing bio-ener­­gy on a wide scale. Typ­i­cal­ly, bio-ener­­gy crops can pro­vide a wide array of ben­e­fits includ­ing reduced main­te­nance needs, improved yields, and a host of oth­er eco­log­i­cal ben­e­fits.

Agri­cul­tur­al Crops

It is note­wor­thy that the US has the third-high­­est uti­liza­tion of crop­land acreage. As of 1996, wheat, hay, soy­bean and corn con­tributed to a total 90% of all the crops pro­duced. How­ev­er, it must be not­ed that the exist­ing use of these crops in the indus­tri­al sec­tor is quite low. The joint pro­duc­tion of grain crops for both kinds of fuels : ethanol and food, can tremen­dous­ly aid in alle­vi­at­ing poten­tial con­flicts in assign­ing renew­able resources to prob­a­bly the two most vital needs of humans : fuel and food. Two kinds of crops that are being con­sis­tent­ly eval­u­at­ed to become ener­gy crops in the future are : 

• Legumes, and
• Peren­ni­al grasses.

Here are some of the com­mon grass­es includ­ed in these categories : 

• Bahia grass,
• Bermu­da grass,
• Reed canary grass,
• Napier­grass,
• Sudan grass,
• Switch­grass,
• Weep­ing love grass.

Bio­log­i­cal Waste Materials

The US gen­er­ates wastes that serve as raw mate­ri­als for bio­log­i­cal prod­ucts. Recent sta­tis­tics say that more than 280 mil­lion met­ric tons of organ­ic wastes are dis­card­ed each year. Note that most of this bio­log­i­cal waste is a result of crop remains, pri­mar­i­ly from corn — more than 100 mil­lion met­ric tons of corn left­overs are gen­er­at­ed each year. To a small­er degree, wood, munic­i­pal and paper mill waste is addi­tion­al­ly cru­cial. It is astound­ing to learn that crop remain a con­sid­er­ably unex­ploit­ed resource of car­bon-based raw mate­ri­als found onsite at lit­tle or no cost. Nev­er­the­less, the expen­di­ture for com­pi­la­tion, car­go space, and trans­porta­tion must be mea­sured in uti­liz­ing these colos­sal low-priced remains. Ade­quate organ­ic wastes is avail­able to pro­vide car­bon for the entire 100 mil­lion met­ric tons of nat­ur­al car­bon chem­i­cals used each year in the US, along with ful­fill­ing the country’s need for fuel. More­over, the man­u­fac­tur­ing of indus­tri­al­ized prod­ucts via agri­cul­tur­al wastes can lessen the stress on farm­ing resources. Plant-based car­bo­hy­drates are also broad­ly uti­lized for pro­duc­ing FCDA. Giv­en that FCDA is a com­po­nent of PEF, we pro­vide our busi­ness clients with prod­ucts to encour­age bio-based poly­ester man­u­fac­tur­ing. More­over, we also under­take pep­tide man­u­fac­tur­ing to help you make choic­es that cre­ate new­er pos­si­bil­i­ties. Call us now at +44 (0)20 360 89 360-31 for inquiries and plac­ing orders.