Biofuels and Bioenergy: Opportunities and Challenges

Biofuels and Bioenergy: Opportunities and Challenges addresses the technological developments and challenges in the production of a broad range of biofuels and bioenergy products from renewable feedstock. The book emphasizes the opportunities and challenges involved in various processes including fermentation, transesterification, microbial fuels cells, liquefaction, gasification, and pyrolysis. These are also considered from a biorefinery perspective and discuss all common biomass feedstocks. In addition, the book presents new research on microalgae from waste water treatment, large scale production of microalgae, microbial biooil production, biogas production, computational tools for manipulation of metabolic pathway for enhanced biogas production, production of biofuel from genetically modified microalgal biomass, techno-economic analysis, environmental impact and life cycle analysis. Biofuels and Bioenergy is an ideal reference on the latest research for researchers and students working in the area of biofuels and renewable energy. Addresses biological and chemical methods of biofuel and bioenergy productionProvides industry case studies alongside in-depth techno-economic analysis, environmental impact, and life cycle assessment of biofuels productionFocuses on the commercial viability of production processes INDICE: Section I Biofuels and Bioenergy 1. An overview of Bioenergy, Biofuels and Biorefining 2. Opportunities and challenges in industrial production of biofuels and bioenergy Section II Biomass into Biofuels and Bioenergy 3. Technologies to Convert Biomass to BioOil : Opportunities and Challenges 4. Non-waste technology in the bioethanol and biodiesel industries 5. Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Lignocellulosic Biomass for production of Bio-oil and By-Products: Current State of the Art and Challenges Section III Bioethanol and Biodiesel Production 6. Refining lignocellulose of second generation waste for bioethanol production 7. The Role of Fungal Species in the Release of Sugars and Production of Bioethanol from Forest Products 8. Various Methods of Biodiesel Production and Types of Catalysts 9. Biodiesel Production Using Enzymatic Catalyst 10. Importance of nanocatalyst and its role in biofuel production 11. Potentials and Challenges on Biodiesel production from Algae - Technological outlook Section IV Biogas Production 12. Sustainable approaches for biohydrogen and biogas production from corn wastes: prospects and challenges 13. Biogas production potential in India, latest biogas up gradation techniques and future application in a fuel cell 14. Anaerobic Digestion of Agro Wastes: End of Life Step of a Bio-refinery 15. Metabolic pathway manipulation for enhanced biogas production using computational tools 16. Biomass gasification: a step towards cleaner fuel and chemicals Section V Bioenergy Production using Pyrolysis 17. Pyrolysis: an alternative approach for utilization of biomass into bio-energy generation Section VI Bioenergy Production using Microbial Fuel Cell 18. Production of biofuels in a microbial electrochemical reactor 19. Advances in Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Zero-Carbon Emission Energy Generation from Waste 20. In-situ monitoring of biogas production using microbial fuel cell (MFC) 21. Concomitant bioenergy production and wastewater treatment employing microbial electrochemical technologies Section VII Microalgae as Source of Biofuels and Bioenergy 22. Microalgae - the ideal source of biofuel 23. Algae as Source of Biofuels and Bioenergy Through Waste-Water Treatment 24. Principles and technology advances in wastewater treatment using microalgae towards bioenergy production 25. Weeds as a renewable bioresource: Prospects for bioconversion to biofuels and biomaterials through a cascade of approaches 26. Critical Parameters Affecting Large-Scale Microalgal Biomass Production in Open Raceway Pond 27. Fostering single cell oil synthesis by de novo and ex novo pathway in oleaginous microorganisms for biodiesel production 28. Production of Biofuel from Genetically Modified Microalgal Biomass and its Effect on Environment and Public Health Section VIII Techno-economic analysis and Life Cycle Assessment 29. Sustainability Assessment of Third Generation Biofuels:  A Life Cycle Perspective

• ISBN: 978-0-323-85269-2
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 370
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés