Biofuel Production: Recent Developments and Prospects

✍ Scribed by Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes (ed.)

• Publisher: InTech
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 606
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book aspires to be a comprehensive summary of current biofuels issues and thereby contribute to the understanding of this important topic. Readers will find themes including biofuels development efforts, their implications for the food industry, current and future biofuels crops, the successful Brazilian ethanol program, insights of the first, second, third and fourth biofuel generations, advanced biofuel production techniques, related waste treatment, emissions and environmental impacts, water consumption, produced allergens and toxins. Additionally, the biofuel policy discussion is expected to be continuing in the foreseeable future and the reading of the biofuels features dealt with in this book, are recommended for anyone interested in understanding this diverse and developing theme.

✦ Table of Contents

preface_biofuel......Page 1
Part 1......Page 11
Abiotic Stress Diagnosis via Laser Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Analysis in Plants for Biofuel......Page 13
Is It Possible to Use Biodiesel as a Reference Material?......Page 33
First Generation Biodiesel......Page 55
Part 2......Page 75
Bioethanol – What Has Brazil Learned About
Yeasts Inhabiting the Ethanol Production
Processes from Sugar Cane......Page 77
Ethanol Production in Brazil: The Industrial Process
and Its Impact on Yeast Fermentation......Page 95
Ethanol Reforming in the Dynamic Plasma -
Liquid Systems......Page 111
Developing Organisms for Consolidated
Bioprocessing of Biomass to Ethanol......Page 147
Latest Frontiers in the Biotechnologies for Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass......Page 173
Part 3......Page 207
Novel Approaches to Improve Cellulase Biosynthesis for Biofuel Production – Adjusting Signal Transduction
Pathways in the Biotechnological Workhorse
Trichoderma reesei......Page 209
Detoxification of Lignocellulosic Hydrolysates for
Improved Bioethanol Production......Page 235
Biofuel From Cellulosic Mass with Incentive for Feed Industry Employing Thermophilic Microbes......Page 257
Kinetic Modelling of Dilute Acid Hydrolysis
of Lignocellulosic Biomass......Page 303
Trichoderma reesei: A Fungal Enzyme
Producer for Cellulosic Biofuels......Page 319
Part 4......Page 351
Application of Response Surface Methodology to Optimize Alkali Concentration, Corn Stover Particle Size, and Extruder Parameters for Maximum Sugar Recovery......Page 353
Innovative Biological Solutions to Challenges
in Sustainable Biofuels Production......Page 385
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Biofuels......Page 425
Fertilizer Potential of Biofuel Byproducts......Page 447
The Past, Present, and Future of Biofuels –
Biobutanol as Promising Alternative......Page 461
DMF - A New Biofuel Candidate......Page 497
Biofuels: From Hopes to Reality......Page 531
Bioproduction of Hydrogen with the
Assistance of Electrochemical Technology......Page 557
A Genetic-Fuzzy System for Modelling of Selected
Processes in Diesel Engine Fuelled by Biofuels......Page 571
Determination of the Impact of Biogas on the Engine Oil Condition Using a Sensor Based on Corrosiveness......Page 587

✦ Subjects

Топливно-энергетический комплекс;Биотопливо, биоэнергетика;