Due to the growing awareness of the finite resources in fossil liquid fuels and the noticeable climate changes resulting from the consumption of fossil fuels, energy is becoming a vital issue in our society. New materials and new processes are required to replace the current energy supply at least to a certain extent. The Series dedicates volumes to the re-thinking in the chemical industry and the transport sector, the potential of nanotechnology, but also bio-mimicking, biorefineries, energy storage and Life-Cycle Assessment of the green energy economy. A valuable insight for chemists, physicists, materials scientists and process engineers.

The book is about the concept of how to introduce renewable energy into the chemical production chain and how to revise the chemical production from this perspective - a direction along which the chemical industry and Europe (resource efficiency, low carbon economy) is moving. This topic will be discussed with the direct participation (and contribution to the book) of top managers of the chemical companies.

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Gabriele Centi and Siglinda Perathoner, University of Messina, Messina, Italy; Ed d'Hooghe, Dow Chemical, Netherlands

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