抄録
Currently, environmental pollution and a diminishing supply of fossil resources are the key issues that have led to the search for alternative carbon resources. Fossil fuels still dominate energy consumption, with a market share of 87%. Renewable energy continues to increase, but today it accounts for only 2% of the global energy consumption. It has been proposed that commodity chemicals derived from fossil resources will inevitably be available from renewable resources such as plant-derived lignocellulose and other related compounds. These commodity chemicals will eventually be obtained from lignocellulosic materials, which are the main component of biomass, using biorefinery techniques. The global storage of biomass corresponds to 60% of the global primary energy supply per year. Various chemical transformation processes, such as gasification and hydrolysis in different media, are introduced in the present review.
