Microbial Fuels: Technologies and Applications

✍ Scribed by Farshad Darvishi Harzevili (Editor); Ir Serge Hiligsmann (Editor)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Leaves: 578
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book will highlight major trends and developments in the field of microbial fuels, with contributions from a number of highly experienced researchers. It will serve as a comprehensive reference for industrial stakeholders, scientists, researchers and graduate students interested in microbial fuels. The aims of this work are to present the technologies and perspectives taking into account different socio-economical contexts. A specific chapter will focus on the general perspectives of microbial fuels for low-income and emerging countries.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Impressive Potential of Microorganisms to Achieve the Transition from Fossil

Fuels to Biofuels

Farshad Darvishi and Serge Hiligsmann

Section I Gaseous Biofuels

2. Bioenergy Production from Waste Substrates

Amit Kumar, Anish Ghimire, Bo H. Svensson, and Piet N.L. Lens

3. Biomethane from Industrial and Municipal Wastewater

Miriam H.A. van Eekert and Grietje Zeeman

4. Microbial Biomethane from Solid Wastes: Principles and Biotechnogical Processes

Antoine P. Trzcinski and David C. Stuckey

5. Microbial Biomethane Production from Municipal Solid Waste Using High Soilds

Anaerobic Digestion

Gregory R. Hinds, Piet N.L. Lens, Qiong Zhang, and Sarina J. Ergas

6. Microbial Biomethane Production from Agricultural Solid Wastes

Rémy Bayard and Pierre Buffière

7. Dark Fermentative Hydrogen Production: From Concepts to a Sustainable Production

Patrícia Madeira da Silva Moura, Joana Resende Ortigueira, Idania Valdez-Vazquez,

Ganesh Dattatray Saratale, Rijuta Ganesh Saratale, and Carla Alexandra

Monteiro da Silva

8. Engineering Strategies for Enhancing Photofermentative Biohydrogen Production

by Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria Using Dark Fermentation Effluents

Anish Ghimire, Giovanni Esposito, Vincenzo Luongo, Francesco Pirozzi,

Luigi Frunzo, and Piet N.L. Lens

9. Hydrogen Photoproduction by Oxygenic Photosynthetic Microorganisms

Fabrice Franck, Bart Ghysels, and Damien Godaux

Section II Liquid Biofuels

10. Microbial Production of Liquid Biofuels through Metabolic Engineering

Wei Ning Chen and Jiahua Shi

11. Designing a Plant for Bioethanol Production from Different Raw Materials:

The Biowanze Ethanol Plant as a Case Study

Olivier Janssens

12. Microbial Lipids as Diesel Replacement: Current Challenges and Recent Advances

Hatim Machrafi, Christophe Minetti, and Carlo Saverio Iorio

Section III Prospects for Future Development of Biofuels

13. New Tools for Bioprocess Analysis and Optimization of Microbial Fuel Production

Isabelle France George, Philippe Bogaerts, Dimitri Gilis, Marianne Rooman,

and Jean-François Flot

14. Industrial Integration of Biotechnological Processes from Raw Material to Energy

Integration: Study by Modeling Approach

Grégoire Léonard, Andreas Pfennig, Ayse Dilan Celebi, Shivom Sharma,

and François Maréchal

15. Perspectives of Microbial Fuels for Low-Income and Emerging Countries:

Biogas Production

Puhulwella G. Rathnasiri

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Power & Energy;Renewable Energy;Clean Tech;Bio Energy