Bioethanol: A Green Energy Substitute for Fossil Fuels
This book looks deeply into the prospects for using ethanol as a greener alternative to fossil fuels and the technical and scientific issues that surround them. Ethanol, with its numerous advantages, has emerged as a promising contender to replace gasoline as a fuel source. Currently, it is commerci...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Green Energy and Technology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Benefits, prospects, and challenges of bioethanol production
- Novel and cost-effective feedstock for sustainable bioethanol production
- Feedstock Conditioning and pretreatments (physical, chemical, and intensification assistance)
- Current status on substrate hydrolysis to fermentable sugars
- Bioethanol production from novel starch sources
- Bioethanol production from lignocellulosic wastes: potentials and challenges
- Bioethanol production from microalgae: potentials and challenges
- Bioethanol production via fermentation: microbes, process modeling and optimization
- Bioethanol recovery and dehydration techniques
- Ethanol utilization in spark ignition engines and emission characteristics
- Overview of commercial bioethanol production plants
- Techno-economic evaluation, Life cycle analysis of ethanol production
- Concluding remarks and future directions