Microbial technologies in advanced biofuels production

✍ Scribed by Patrick C. Hallenbeck (auth.), Patrick C. Hallenbeck (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Concerns over dwindling fossil fuel reserves and impending climate changes have focused attention worldwide on the need to discover alternative, sustainable energy sources and fuels. Biofuels, already produced on a massive industrial scale, are seen as one answer to these problems. However, very real concerns over the effects of biofuel production on food supplies, with some of ht recent increases in worldwide food costs attributable to biofuel production, have lead to the realization that new, non-food substrates for biofuel production must be bought online. This book is an authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date review of the various options under development for the production of advanced biofuels as alternative energy sources. A general overview and introductory chapters for each section place the field in the context as well as provide essential basic notions for the more general reader. Accomplished, internationally recognized experts carrying out research on individual focus areas contribute specific technical chapters detailing present progress and future prospects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Biofuels, the Larger Context....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Hydrogen Production by Cyanobacteria....Pages 15-28
Hydrogen Production: Light-Driven Processes – Green Algae....Pages 29-51
Hydrogen Production: Photofermentation....Pages 53-75
Fermentative Hydrogen Production....Pages 77-92
Microbial Electrolysis: Novel Biotechnology for Hydrogen Production from Biomass....Pages 93-105
Combined Systems for Maximum Substrate Conversion....Pages 107-126
Syntrophic Degradation of Fatty Acids by Methanogenic Communities....Pages 127-142
Anaerobic Digestion as an Effective Biofuel Production Technology....Pages 143-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Advanced Bioethanol Production....Pages 165-181
Novel Strategies for Production of Medium and High Chain Length Alcohols....Pages 183-211
Microbial Production of Fatty-Acid-Based Biofuels....Pages 213-230
Algae Oil....Pages 231-259
The Future of Biofuels, Biofuels of the Future....Pages 261-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-272

✦ Subjects

Microbiology; Biochemistry, general; Immunology; Renewable and Green Energy