Green Fuels Technology Biofuels

This book presents key recent developments in biofuel policy, products, processes, patents and innovative technologies. It presents several case studies, which maximize reader insights into how innovative green energy technologies can be implemented on an industrial scale, with illustrations, photos...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Soccol, Carlos Ricardo (Editor), Brar, Satinder Kaur (Editor), Faulds, Craig (Editor), Ramos, Luiz Pereira (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:Green Energy and Technology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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