New Industrial Products from Starch
Herbert Koch, Harald Röper · Starch - Stärke · 1988
Abstract The industrial (non‐food) use of starch and starch‐based products as renewable raw materials is discussed together with examples, in the following application areas: –Starch as auxiliary raw material: binder, adhesive, thickener, protective colloid. –Starch as raw material for new products in chemical or biotechnical processes: polyols, acids, polysaccharides, enzymes. –Starch as filler with specific functionality for synthetic polymers to improve application properties in e. g. polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyurethane‐foams, styrene/butadiene copolymers, polyvinylchloride. –Starch as reactive component to be incorporated during production of synthetic polymers leading to synergistic effects: urea/formaldehyde resins, phenolic resins, alkyd‐ and melamine resins. –Starch‐based active materials which either exhibit direct functionality themselves, (e. g. as surfactants, sequestrants and bleaching boosters) or which represent building blocks for the synthesis of chiral compounds for the pharmaceutical or the agro‐industries.