Green Fuels Technology: Biofuels

Book Overview

History and global policy of biofuels.- Feedstock to biofuels.- Oil crops in the context of global biodiesel production.- An overview of production, properties and uses of biodiesel from vegetable oil.- Pretreatment processes for cellulosic ethanol production: processes integration and modelling for the utilization of lignocellulosics such as sugarcane straw.- Fungal enzymatic degradation of cellulose.- Principles and challenges involved in the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic materials at high total solids.- First generation bioethanol.- Second generation bioethanol.- Bioethanol from soybean molasses.- Bioethanol wastes: Economic valorization.- General assessment of the currently available biodiesel production technologies.- Biodiesel Production by Hydro-Esterification - Simulation Studies.- Biodiesel and bioethanol from algae.- Microbial oil for biodiesel production.- Biohydrogen.- Biogas: An evolutionary perspective in the Indian context.- Biobutanol: A renewable green alternative of liquid fuel from algae.- Biofuel from pyrolysis.- Life cycle assessment of biofuels.- Patents on biofuels.- Economic and environmental aspects of biofuels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319807498
• ISBN13: 9783319807492
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 555 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"