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Carbon source in the future chemical industries

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Rising crude oil prices favour the exploitation of hitherto unutilised energy carriers and the realisation of new technologies in all sectors where carbon is used. These changed economic constraints necessitate both savings in conventional petrochemistry and a change to oil-independent carbon sources in the chemical industry. While, in coal chemistry, the synthesis and process principles of petrochemistry — fragmentation of the raw material and subsequent buildup of molecular structures — can be maintained, the raw material structure largely remains unchanged in the chemistry of renewable raw materials. This lecture is to demonstrate the structural as well as the technological and energy criteria of the chemistry of alternative carbon sources, to forecast the chances of commercial realization and to discuss some promising fields of research and development.

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Slightly shortened manuscript of a lecture given to the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan on Ist April 1982 in Tokyo

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Hofmann, P., Heinrich Krauch, C. Carbon source in the future chemical industries. Naturwissenschaften 69, 509–519 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00463494

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