Handbook of Biotechnology for Renewable Fuels (ePub)

The Handbook of Biotechnology-Based Alternative Fuels encompasses fundamental studies, applications and recent progress, challenges, and breakthroughs related to alternative fuels. In its chapters, world-class researchers and specialists present the current knowledge in the areas of biotechnology-based alternative fuels, such as bioethanol, biobutanol, biodiesel, biohydrogen, biochar, biocrude, biogas and biohydrogen. This handbook offers a fundamental knowledge on each topic, along with practical examples and applications. It is designed into two major parts. Part one covers challenges and potential mechanisms and properties, classification and composition of different types of bio-based alternative fuels. Several emerging topics are discussed, including value-added bioproducts, synthesis, characterization and processing of alternative fuels, biological energy production, cellulose enzyme development, strain development, algal biofuels, bioethanol and biodiesel, biogas, biomass, liquid and gaseous biofuel production, bionanofuels, pretreatment, fractionation, processing, and conversion of biomasses for biofuel production, bioconversion of agro-industrial residues, carbon cycle, sustainability and biodiversity issues, bioseparation and purification of biobased fuels and chemicals. Part two explores the applications of biotechnology-based alternative fuels, including their most recent and emerging industrial applications. Current research capability, and challenges for scaling up of alternative fuels in industry, with special attention to future outlook. It is an ideal resource for professional engineers and scientists in the biomass conversion and technology fields with, including biotechnology, chemical, energy, mechanical, environmental and manufacturing engineering.Examines the most advanced technologies for industrially-oriented biotechnology-based alternative fuels and renewable energies, including recent evaluation methods, technical aspects, and advanced bioengineered techniques for evaluating themPresents the basic and fundamental aspects of alternative fuels, mechanisms, structure, synthesis and properties and the most developed industrial scale alternative fuels already in use or which may have a potential use by the industryDiscusses the novel approaches and challenges for scaling up and commercialization of bio-based alternative fuels as well as advances in value added bioproducts