A-Z of Biorefinery: A Comprehensive View provides a comprehensive book that highlights and illustrates important topics relating to biorefineries, including associated theory, current and future research trends, available techniques and future challenges. This book will benefit a wide range of audiences, including students, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and those who are keen to explore more on biorefinery. Sections cover the availability of current technologies, constraints, market trends, recent system developments, and the concepts that enable modern biorefineries to utilize all kinds of biomass. This book is an essential resource for students, scientists, engineers and practitioners working in industry and academia.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Editor’s biographies - p. xix 8. Preface - p. xxi 9. Acknowledgments - p. xxii 10. Section 1: Overview of A–Z of biorefinery: A comprehensive view - p. xxii 11. 1. Overview of biorefinery - p. 22 12. Section 2: Biomass and biobased products - p. 32 13. 2. Whole crop feedstocks in biorefinery: A common classification - p. 57 14. 3. Lignocellulosic biomass and its potential derivative products - p. 86 15. 4. Algal-based feedstocks - p. 121 16. 5. Waste and residues streams as feedstock - p. 143 17. 6. Bioresources and biofuels—From classical to perspectives and trends - p. 165 18. 7. Key enzymes in biorefinery - p. 221 19. 8. Technology toward biochemicals precursors and bioplastic production - p. 278 20. 9. Fine specialty chemicals for food and feed applications - p. 349 21. Section 3: Conversion of biomass to high-value products - p. 386 22. 10. Gasification/pyrolysis/torrefaction - p. 389 23. 11. Thermal, hydrothermal liquefaction, and electromagnetic processes for biomass conversion - p. 421 24. 12. Progress and challenges for microbial fermentation processes within the biorefinery context - p. 447 25. 13. Consolidated bioprocessing for ethanol and butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: Recent advances in strain and process engineering - p. 473 26. Section 4: Downstream recovery and separation - p. 506 27. 14. Overview of downstream product recovery technology in biorefineries - p. 509 28. 15. Key unit operations in biorefinery processes - p. 548 29. Section 5: Process creation, design, and analysis - p. 555 30. 16. Sustainable biorefinery process synthesis, design, and simulation: Systematic computer-aided methods and tools - p. 559 31. 17. Consequential life cycle assessment: Evaluating the environmental impact of dairy manure treatment using thermochemical conversion technologies - p. 607 32. Section 6: Tools and complete case studies - p. 637 33. 18. Complete design case study for pulp and paper industry - p. 641 34. 19. Conceptual design of sugarcane biorefinery upgrading molasses to value-added chemicals - p. 683 35. 20. Superstructure optimization of microalgal biorefinery producing biodiesel - p. 713 36. 21. Perspectives, challenges and future directions - p. 739 37. Index - p. 751
A-Z of Biorefinery: A Comprehensive View provides a comprehensive book that highlights and illustrates important topics relating to biorefineries, including associated theory, current and future research trends, available techniques and future challenges. This book will benefit a wide range of audiences, including students, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and those who are keen to explore more on biorefinery. Sections cover the availability of current technologies, constraints, market trends, recent system developments, and the concepts that enable modern biorefineries to utilize all kinds of biomass. This book is an essential resource for students, scientists, engineers and practitioners working in industry and academia.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Editor’s biographies - p. xix 8. Preface - p. xxi 9. Acknowledgments - p. xxii 10. Section 1: Overview of A–Z of biorefinery: A comprehensive view - p. xxii 11. 1. Overview of biorefinery - p. 22 12. Section 2: Biomass and biobased products - p. 32 13. 2. Whole crop feedstocks in biorefinery: A common classification - p. 57 14. 3. Lignocellulosic biomass and its potential derivative products - p. 86 15. 4. Algal-based feedstocks - p. 121 16. 5. Waste and residues streams as feedstock - p. 143 17. 6. Bioresources and biofuels—From classical to perspectives and trends - p. 165 18. 7. Key enzymes in biorefinery - p. 221 19. 8. Technology toward biochemicals precursors and bioplastic production - p. 278 20. 9. Fine specialty chemicals for food and feed applications - p. 349 21. Section 3: Conversion of biomass to high-value products - p. 386 22. 10. Gasification/pyrolysis/torrefaction - p. 389 23. 11. Thermal, hydrothermal liquefaction, and electromagnetic processes for biomass conversion - p. 421 24. 12. Progress and challenges for microbial fermentation processes within the biorefinery context - p. 447 25. 13. Consolidated bioprocessing for ethanol and butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: Recent advances in strain and process engineering - p. 473 26. Section 4: Downstream recovery and separation - p. 506 27. 14. Overview of downstream product recovery technology in biorefineries - p. 509 28. 15. Key unit operations in biorefinery processes - p. 548 29. Section 5: Process creation, design, and analysis - p. 555 30. 16. Sustainable biorefinery process synthesis, design, and simulation: Systematic computer-aided methods and tools - p. 559 31. 17. Consequential life cycle assessment: Evaluating the environmental impact of dairy manure treatment using thermochemical conversion technologies - p. 607 32. Section 6: Tools and complete case studies - p. 637 33. 18. Complete design case study for pulp and paper industry - p. 641 34. 19. Conceptual design of sugarcane biorefinery upgrading molasses to value-added chemicals - p. 683 35. 20. Superstructure optimization of microalgal biorefinery producing biodiesel - p. 713 36. 21. Perspectives, challenges and future directions - p. 739 37. Index - p. 751
