Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts

Designed as a text not only for students and researchers, but anyone interested in green technology, Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts offers the reader a vast overview of the state-of-the-art in renewable energies.  The typical chapter sets out to explain the fundamentals of a new technology as wel...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lee, James W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • To synthesize liquid fuels on precipitated Fe catalyst with CO2-containing syngas gasified from biomass
  • Cellulosic butanol production from agricultural biomass and residues: Recent advances in technology
  • Consolidated bioprocessing
  • The synthesis, regulation and modification of lignocellulosic biomass as a resource for biofuels and bioproducts
  • Genetic modifications of plant cell walls to increase biomass and bioethanol production
  • Designer enzymes/cellulosomes
  • Designer algae for photobiological production of hydrogen from water
  • Designer photosynthetic organisms for photobiological production of ethanol from carbon dioxide and water
  • Synthetic biology for photobiological production of butanol and/or related higher alcohols from carbon dioxide and water
  • Production of biodiesel and nontoxic jatropha seedcake from Jatropha curcas
  • Biofuels from microalgae towards meeting advanced fuel standards
  • Gas hydrates as a potential energy source: state of knowledge and challenges
  • Electrofuels: A new paradigm for renewable fuels
  • Engineering Ralstonia eutropha for production of isobutanol from CO2, H2, and O2
  • Microbial ElectroCatalytic (MEC) biofuel production
  • Introduction: an overview of advanced biofuels and bioproducts
  • Sugarcane ethanol: strategies to a successful program in Brazil
  • Smokeless biomass pyrolysis for producing biofuels and biochar as a possible arsenal to control climate
  • Oxygenation of biochar for enhanced cation exchange capacity
  • Characterization of biochars using advanced solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  • Biochar fertilizers as soil amendment and carbon sequestration agent
  • Selection and use of designer biochars to improve characteristics of Southeastern USA Coastal Plain degraded soils
  • Biochar: A co-product to bioenergy from slow-pyrolysis technology
  • Catalytic pyrolysis of biomass
  • Selective fast pyrolysis of biomass to produce fuels and chemicals
  • Sub- and supercritical water technology for biofuels
  • Biomass to liquid fuel via Fischer-Tropsch and related syntheses
  • Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbons synthesis from a simulated biosyngas
  • Bioprocess engineering aspects of biodiesel and bioethanol production from microalgae
  • Closed photo-bioreactors as tools for biofuel production
  • Alternative methods for the extraction of hydrocarbons from Botryococcus braunii
  • Valorisation of waste frying oils and animal fats for biodiesel production
  • One-step conversion of algal biomass to biodiesel with formation of an algal char as potential fertilizer
  • Process economics and greenhouse gas audit for microalgal biodiesel production
  • Sustainability considerations about microalgae for biodiesel production
  • Life cycle assessment of algae-to-energy systems
  • Cultivation of Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis by fed-batch process
  • Bioprocess development for chlorophyll extraction from microalgae
  • Screening for bioactive compounds from algae
  • Biogas production from algae and cyanobacteria through anaerobic digestion: a review, analysis and research needs