Products of sugar beet processing as raw materials for chemicals and biodegradable polymers

This paper presents an overview of alternative uses for products of sugar beet processing, especially sucrose, as chemical raw materials for the production of biodegradable polymers. Traditionally, sucrose has not been considered as a chemical raw material, because of its use in the food industry an...

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Published in:RSC advances 2018-01, Vol.8 (6), p.3161-3177
Main Authors: Tomaszewska, J, Bieli ski, D, Binczarski, M, Berlowska, J, Dziugan, P, Piotrowski, J, Stanishevsky, A, Wito ska, I. A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biodegradability
Biodegradable materials
Biomass
Catalysis
Chemistry
Dehydration
Food processing industry
Monosaccharides
Oxidation
Polymers
Polysaccharides
Production methods
Raw materials
Sucrose
Sugar
Sugar beets
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Summary:This paper presents an overview of alternative uses for products of sugar beet processing, especially sucrose, as chemical raw materials for the production of biodegradable polymers. Traditionally, sucrose has not been considered as a chemical raw material, because of its use in the food industry and high sugar prices. Beet pulp and beetroot leaves have also not been considered as raw materials for chemical production processes until recently. However, current changes in the European sugar market could lead to falling demand and overproduction of sucrose. Increases in the production of white sugar will also increase the production of waste biomass, as a result of the processing of larger quantities of sugar beet. This creates an opportunity for the development of new chemical technologies based on the use of products of sugar beet processing as raw materials. Promising methods for producing functionalized materials include the acidic hydrolysis of sugars (sucrose, biomass polysaccharides), the catalytic dehydration of monosaccharides to HMF followed by catalytic oxidation of HMF to FDCA and polymerization to biodegradable polymers. The technologies reviewed in this article will be of interest both to industry and science. This paper presents an overview of alternative uses for products of sugar beet processing, especially sucrose, as chemical raw materials for the production of biodegradable polymers.
ISSN:2046-2069
2046-2069
DOI:10.1039/c7ra12782k