Bioenergy Engineering: Fundamentals, Methods, Modelling, and Applications presents the fundamental principles, recent developments, innovative state-of the-art technologies, challenges, solutions and future perspectives on the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Balancing the scientific and engineering aspects of biofuels production, the book guides readers through the chemical kinetics, modeling, thermodynamics, unit operations and technological advancements in fuel processing from conventional and alternative resources. Each chapter of the book starts with the fundamentals and goes on to assess the latest technologies for the production of renewable fuels on topics.
Sections cover biomass utilization, biomass-to-liquid conversion technologies (pyrolysis, liquefaction, solid-state fermentation and submerged fermentation), biomass-to-gas conversion technologies (thermochemical gasification, subcritical and supercritical water gasification, and methanation), gas-to-liquid conversion technologies (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), carbonization, transesterification, organic transformation, carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions, oxidation, reforming, hydrotreating technologies (hydrogenation, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation, hydro dearomatization and hydro demetalization), nanocatalysis and biocatalysis (enzymatic hydrolysis), and much more.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to bioenergy; current status, merits & demerits - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Feedstock for biofuel production: starch, oilseeds, lignocellulosic and algae-based, fuel logistics of biomass - p. 17 3. Chapter 3. Characterization techniques of biomass: physico-chemical, elemental, and biological - p. 51 4. Chapter 4. Comparisons between fossil fuels and bio-fuels - p. 67 5. Chapter 5. Agricultural waste to fuels and chemicals - p. 87 6. Chapter 6. Cogasification of biomass and coal for the production of biofuels - p. 99 7. Chapter 7. Role of catalysts in biofuel production through fast pyrolysis - p. 115 8. Chapter 8. Advances in gasification techniques - p. 133 9. Chapter 9. Thermal energy storage materials from triglycerides - p. 149 10. Chapter 10. Biological conversion technologies: Enzyme hydrolysis, ethanol fermentation - p. 171 11. Chapter 11. Anaerobic digestion methods for the production of fuels - p. 201 12. Chapter 12. Microbial fuel cells - p. 237 13. Chapter 13. Sustainable energy from food waste via using a sustainable microbial system - p. 277 14. Chapter 14. Algal biofuel and its prospects - p. 299 15. Chapter 15. High-value–added products from microalgae production integrated with bioethanol process - p. 315 16. Chapter 16. Bright-skies to biomass fuels in aviation sector - p. 333 17. Chapter 17. Biohydrogen production by biological water-gas shift reaction and bioelectrochemical systems - p. 353 18. Chapter 18. Methods of catalyst synthesis and recycling processes for biofuel upgradation - p. 381 19. Chapter 19. Biocatalysts for biofuels production - p. 409 20. Chapter 20. Microwave assisted catalysis for biofuel production - p. 427 21. Chapter 21. Alcoholic fuels from food waste in restaurants - p. 447 22. Chapter 22. Bioenergy engineering: fundamentals, methods, modeling, and applications: Mathematical modeling of biomass gasification processes - p. 463 23. Chapter 23. Hydro-deoxygenation of biofuel - p. 487 24. Chapter 24. Economic, social and ecological impacts of bioenergy at local, national and global levels - p. 507 25. Chapter 25. Life cycle assessment of biofuels - p. 535 26. Index - p. 551
Bioenergy Engineering: Fundamentals, Methods, Modelling, and Applications presents the fundamental principles, recent developments, innovative state-of the-art technologies, challenges, solutions and future perspectives on the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Balancing the scientific and engineering aspects of biofuels production, the book guides readers through the chemical kinetics, modeling, thermodynamics, unit operations and technological advancements in fuel processing from conventional and alternative resources. Each chapter of the book starts with the fundamentals and goes on to assess the latest technologies for the production of renewable fuels on topics.
Sections cover biomass utilization, biomass-to-liquid conversion technologies (pyrolysis, liquefaction, solid-state fermentation and submerged fermentation), biomass-to-gas conversion technologies (thermochemical gasification, subcritical and supercritical water gasification, and methanation), gas-to-liquid conversion technologies (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), carbonization, transesterification, organic transformation, carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions, oxidation, reforming, hydrotreating technologies (hydrogenation, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation, hydro dearomatization and hydro demetalization), nanocatalysis and biocatalysis (enzymatic hydrolysis), and much more.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to bioenergy; current status, merits & demerits - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Feedstock for biofuel production: starch, oilseeds, lignocellulosic and algae-based, fuel logistics of biomass - p. 17 3. Chapter 3. Characterization techniques of biomass: physico-chemical, elemental, and biological - p. 51 4. Chapter 4. Comparisons between fossil fuels and bio-fuels - p. 67 5. Chapter 5. Agricultural waste to fuels and chemicals - p. 87 6. Chapter 6. Cogasification of biomass and coal for the production of biofuels - p. 99 7. Chapter 7. Role of catalysts in biofuel production through fast pyrolysis - p. 115 8. Chapter 8. Advances in gasification techniques - p. 133 9. Chapter 9. Thermal energy storage materials from triglycerides - p. 149 10. Chapter 10. Biological conversion technologies: Enzyme hydrolysis, ethanol fermentation - p. 171 11. Chapter 11. Anaerobic digestion methods for the production of fuels - p. 201 12. Chapter 12. Microbial fuel cells - p. 237 13. Chapter 13. Sustainable energy from food waste via using a sustainable microbial system - p. 277 14. Chapter 14. Algal biofuel and its prospects - p. 299 15. Chapter 15. High-value–added products from microalgae production integrated with bioethanol process - p. 315 16. Chapter 16. Bright-skies to biomass fuels in aviation sector - p. 333 17. Chapter 17. Biohydrogen production by biological water-gas shift reaction and bioelectrochemical systems - p. 353 18. Chapter 18. Methods of catalyst synthesis and recycling processes for biofuel upgradation - p. 381 19. Chapter 19. Biocatalysts for biofuels production - p. 409 20. Chapter 20. Microwave assisted catalysis for biofuel production - p. 427 21. Chapter 21. Alcoholic fuels from food waste in restaurants - p. 447 22. Chapter 22. Bioenergy engineering: fundamentals, methods, modeling, and applications: Mathematical modeling of biomass gasification processes - p. 463 23. Chapter 23. Hydro-deoxygenation of biofuel - p. 487 24. Chapter 24. Economic, social and ecological impacts of bioenergy at local, national and global levels - p. 507 25. Chapter 25. Life cycle assessment of biofuels - p. 535 26. Index - p. 551
