Abstract:

Biorefinery that utilizes renewable biomass for production of fuels，chemicals and bio-materials has become more and more important in chemical industry than ever before. Biotechnological platforms and thermochemical platforms are developed to transfer the efficiency and logic of fossil-based chemistry and petroleum refinery as well as energy production onto the renewable biomass industry. This article presents the up-to-date development of biorefinery in technologies and applications from the aspects of renewable feedstocks，bioconversion technologies，and thermochemical technologies. Future perspectives are discussed.