Open AccessPolymers based on renewable raw materials
Author(s) -
Miodrag Jovanović,
P Zeljko Stojanovic,
B Katarina Jeremic
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
hemijska industrija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.147
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2217-7426
pISSN - 0367-598X
DOI - 10.2298/hemind0211447j
Subject(s) - raw material , renewable energy , chemical industry , renewable resource , fossil fuel , mineral oil , production (economics) , natural gas , polymer , environmental science , biochemical engineering , waste management , natural resource economics , pulp and paper industry , materials science , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering , metallurgy , environmental engineering , economics , electrical engineering , macroeconomics
The basic raw materials for the chemical industry, which also means for polymer production, are mineral oil and natural gas. Mineral oil and natural gas resources are limited so that sooner or later they will be consumed. For this reason alternative, renewable raw materials for the chemical industry have become the object of intensive investigation all over the world. Some of the results of these investigations concerning renewable raw materials for the production of polymer materials are presented in this paper