Bioenergy Engineering: Fundamentals, Methods, Modelling, and Applications

Bioenergy Engineering: Fundamentals, Methods, Modelling, and Applications presents the fundamental principles, recent developments, innovative state-of the-art technologies, challenges, solutions and future perspectives on the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Balancing the scientific and engineering aspects of biofuels production, the book guides readers through the chemical kinetics, modeling, thermodynamics, unit operations and technological advancements in fuel processing from conventional and alternative resources. Each chapter of the book starts with the fundamentals and goes on to assess the latest technologies for the production of renewable fuels on topics. Sections cover biomass utilization, biomass-to-liquid conversion technologies (pyrolysis, liquefaction, solid-state fermentation and submerged fermentation), biomass-to-gas conversion technologies (thermochemical gasification, subcritical and supercritical water gasification, and methanation), gas-to-liquid conversion technologies (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), carbonization, transesterification, organic transformation, carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions, oxidation, reforming, hydrotreating technologies (hydrogenation, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation, hydro dearomatization and hydro demetalization), nanocatalysis and biocatalysis (enzymatic hydrolysis), and much more. Analyzes emerging technologies for the sustainable conversion of various waste and non-waste materials into bioenergy and biofuels Examines a wide range of feedstocks and conversion pathways for liquid and gaseous biofuels Offers practical guidance and data on how to conduct lifecycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, and utilize GIS modeling for a range production pathways INDICE: 1. Introduction to Bioenergy; Current status, merits & demerits2. Feedstock for biofuel production: starch, oilseed, lignocellulogic and algae based, fuel logistics of Biomass. 3. Characterization techniques of biomass: Physico-chemical, Elemental, and Biological 4. Biological conversion technologies: enzyme hydrolysis, ethanol fermentation. 5. Thermochemical conversion techniques: Thermal and catalytic pyrolysis 6. Comparisons of fossil fuels and biofuels 7. Anaerobic digestion methods for the production of fuels 8. Microbial fuel cells 9. Agricultural waste to fuels and chemicals 10. Bio-aviation fuel 11. Upgrading of biofuel 12. Methods of Catalytic synthesis for biofuel upgrading 13. Biocatalyst for biofuel production 14. Nano-catalyst and its application in bio-fuel industry 15. Microwave synthesis of catalyst for biofuel production 16. Algal biofuels and its future prospective 17. Advance in Biogas technologies 18. Co-gasification of biomass and coal for the production of biofuels 19. The mathematical modelling of biomass gratifiers 20. Co-pyrolysis of plastic waste and biomass 21. Catalytic de-oxygenation of biofuel 22. Hydro-de-oxygenation of biofuel 23. Economic, Social and Ecological Impacts of Bioenergy at Local, National and Global Levels24. Life cycle assessment of biofuels25. Current and emerging challenges to bioenergy development26. Govt. policies and standards of bioenergy

• ISBN: 978-0-323-98363-1
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 380
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés