Editorial: Editors' Showcase: Fuels and Chemicals

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Abstract

Throughout its history, industrial microbiology has answered many challenges; food and beverage, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, biomaterials, fuels, and chemicals, often with billions of dollars of impact on markets and society. But these efforts pale in comparison to the challenge of planetary-scale carbon management, which must balance the circularity of a carbon economy with the sequestration of excess environmental carbon. Biorefineries, integrating carbon capture with diverse bioproduct markets, offer our best route to stabilizing an unbalanced global carbon cycle while powering a robust and equitable bioeconomy.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages3
JournalFrontiers in Industrial Microbiology
Volume2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-2700-90903

Keywords

  • bioeconomy and circular economy
  • biomass
  • bioproducts and biofuels
  • biorefinery
  • carbon management

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