Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Glucose

Raw material
1. Starch (many crops can be used as the source of starch eg. maize, rice, wheat, cassava, corn husk, sago)

Process
Glucose is produced commercially via the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch. 

Product
Glucose

Used as
Source of energy, precursor to make vitamin C in the Reichstein process (to make citric acid, gluconic acid, bio-ethanol, polylactic acid, sorbitol)

Production facility 
Ipswich, QLD

Export
N'Djamena, Chad

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