Sustainable Solutions for Modern Economies (Hardback)  | Released: 20 Nov 2009

Limited supplies of fossil fuels and concerns about global warming have created a strong desire to solve the resource issue in the age beyond petroleum. This is the first book to outline the contribution of chemistry, and of renewable chemical or biological resources, to the sustainability concept and to the potential resolution of the world's energy problems. It describes the current status of technical research, and industrial application, as well as the potential of biomass as a renewable resource for energy generation in power stations, as alternative fuels, and for various uses in chemistry. The book is aimed at technical and marketing people in industry, universities and institutions as well as readers in administrations, NGOs and the interested public.About the Author: Rainer Hfer is Vice-President (Emeritus) of Cognis GmbH, Monheim, Germany. He has received the Henkel Innovation Award for Environmentally Benign Organic Specialty Chemicals, the Cognis Innovation Award for a new Star-polymer-based Defoamer Concept, the Federation of German Industries (BDI) Award for Environmentally Benign Surfactant-Systems based on Renewable Raw Materials, the Solvsafe Consortium Award for his Contribution to Sustainable Chemistry, and has close to 200 patents and published journal and book articles. Dr. Hfer graduated in inorganic chemistry at Gttingen University. He spent three years at the Technical University of Oran (ENSEP), Algeria, as Matre de Confrences and Directeur de l'Institut de Chimie before joining Henkel KGaA in D3sseldorf. With Henkel and Cognis he has assumed research and development, application technology, technical sales service, strategic business development and technology scouting responsibilities in oleochemistry, polymer chemistry and surfactant chemistry for the global polymerization, coatings, graphic arts, adhesives, engineering plastics, agrochemical, synthetic lubricants, and pulp & paper markets.