Biofuels || Process Technologies for Biodiesel Production

✍ Scribed by Soetaert, Wim; Vandamme, Erick J.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 480 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 047002674X
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470754108.ch5

✦ Synopsis

This book gives a broad overview of the key topics in this field of study, approaching them from a technical and economic angle giving the reader a comprehensive insight into biofuels as a whole. Dealing specifically with liquid and gaseous biofuels that can be produced from renewable resources this text also gives a summary of the past, present and future production technologies and applications of biofuels.

This book is particularly relevant as it highlights the extensive debate of the on-going global needs to find alternative fuels, making it not only a necessary text for working professionals and researchers in the field, but for anyone with an interest in sustaining the earth.