Recent Advancements in Biofuels and Bioenergy Utilization

✍ Scribed by Prakash Kumar Sarangi, Sonil Nanda, Pravakar Mohanty

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 410
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The concerns relating to global warming, climate change, and increasing energy demands have led to significant research towards the development of alternative energy to substitute the fossil energy sources. Biomass-based energy or biofuels are highly promising due to many perceptible environmental and socio-economic advantages. Cutting-edge academic research and advanced industrial product development have created tremendous scope for the implementation of biofuels at a global scale to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and supplement the escalating energy demands. The prime focus of this book is to provide an overview of the different technologies utilized to harness the chemical energy from plant-based non-edible biomass and other organic wastes in the form of solid, liquid, and gaseous biofuels. The opportunities and challenges of different biomass conversion technologies, especially biomass-to-liquid, biomass-to-gas and gas-to-liquid routes, as well as biomass pretreatments, densification, anaerobic digestion, reforming, transesterification, supercritical fluid extraction, microalgal carbon sequestration, life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis have been comprehensively discussed in this book. This book is an amalgamation of fifteen different chapters each with distinctive investigations and a collective focus relating to the transition from fossil fuels towards carbon-neutral biofuels. This book serves as a benchmark for academic and industrial researchers involved in exploring the true potentials of plant residues and waste organic matter to produce alternative renewable fuels. To realize the real promises of bioenergy, this book attempts to assess the biorefining approaches, biofuel production and application, and environmental sustainability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
A Broad Introduction to First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Biofuels (Sonil Nanda, Rachita Rana, Prakash K. Sarangi, Ajay K. Dalai, Janusz A. Kozinski)....Pages 1-25
Densification of Agricultural Wastes and Forest Residues: A Review on Influential Parameters and Treatments (Ramin Azargohar, Sonil Nanda, Ajay K. Dalai)....Pages 27-51
An Overview on the Application of Ligninolytic Microorganisms and Enzymes for Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass (Hossain Zabed, Shakila Sultana, Jaya Narayan Sahu, Xianghui Qi)....Pages 53-72
Role of Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for an Integrated Biorefinery and Bioprocessing Concept (Shaishav Sharma, Adepu Kiran Kumar)....Pages 73-109
Recent Developments and Challenges of Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol Fermentation (Prakash K. Sarangi, Sonil Nanda)....Pages 111-123
Current Advancements, Prospects and Challenges in Biomethanation (Soumya Nair, Anushree Suresh, Jayanthi Abraham)....Pages 125-146
An Overview of Biomass Gasification (Maharshi Thakkar, Pravakar Mohanty, Mitesh Shah, Vishal Singh)....Pages 147-176
Hydrogen-Rich Syngas Production via Ethanol Dry Reforming over Rare-Earth Metal-Promoted Co-based Catalysts (Fahim Fayaz, Mahadi B. Bahari, Thong L. M. Pham, Chinh Nguyen-Huy, Herma Dina Setiabudi, Bawadi Abdullah et al.)....Pages 177-204
High-Temperature Conversion of Fats: Cracking, Gasification, Esterification, and Transesterification (Federico Galli, Nicolas A. Patience, Daria C. Boffito)....Pages 205-225
A Review on Pyrolysis of Biomass and the Impacts of Operating Conditions on Product Yield, Quality, and Upgradation (Anil Kumar Varma, Ravi Shankar, Prasenjit Mondal)....Pages 227-259
Applications of Supercritical Fluids for Biodiesel Production (Sivamohan N. Reddy, Sonil Nanda, Prakash K. Sarangi)....Pages 261-284
Application of Microalgae for CO2 Sequestration and Wastewater Treatment (Nilotpala Pradhan, Biswaranjan Das)....Pages 285-302
Current Advances and Applications of Fuel Cell Technologies (Kaustav Saikia, Biraj Kumar Kakati, Bibha Boro, Anil Verma)....Pages 303-337
Techno-economic Assessment of Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Technologies (Tapas Kumar Patra, Pratik N. Sheth)....Pages 339-361
An Overview of Techno-economic Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment of Thermochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass (Ranjeet Kumar Mishra, Kaustubha Mohanty)....Pages 363-402

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology; Renewable and Green Energy; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Applied Microbiology