Abstract
Switchable solvents have excellent advantages over traditional solvents including low volatility and flammability, reuse or recycling, and benign to the environment. These attributes make them an excellent candidate to be used in biorefinery for fractionation, separation, and development of different products with multiple functions. This chapter focuses primarily on the use of different switchable solvents such as switchable polarity solvents, switchable hydrophilicity solvents, and switchable water in the biorefinery processes. This chapter also discusses the concept of biorefinery briefly and ends with the future perspective for utilization of switchable solvents in the biorefinery.
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