Handbook of Biorefinery Research and Technology, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

This book reviews biorefinery techniques, covering basic principles, upfront research accomplishments and successful industrial applications, including necessary steps for the provision and preparation of the biomass and all downstream processing steps.

Inhaltsangabe

Feedstock: General.- Agriculture residues.- Designing the perfect plant feedstock for biofuel production.- Microalgae: True sustainable feedstock.- Life Cycle Assessment of biomass production.- Pretreatment.- Nonbiological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.- Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.- Use of ionic liquids in converting lignocellulosic material to biofuels.- Pretreatment of macroalgae.- Saccharification.- Saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel and biorefinery applications.- Solid acid mediated hydrolysis of biomass for producing biofuels.- Microalgae.- Cultivation of Microalgae.- Microalgae Harvest.- Recent Advances in Biofuel Production.- Recent Developments in fermentative Bio-Hydrogen Production.- Progress in photosynthetic bio-hydrogen production.- Progress in Bio-oil Production.- Technical Advances in ethanol biofuel production.- Progress in the development of butanol production.- Progress in alkane biofuel.- Technologies on bio-gas production.- Progress in ethanol production from carbon monoxide.- Progress in the production of platform chemicals in biorefinery.- Recent development in bioproduction and application of 3-HP.- Progress in Polylactate production.- Progress in butanediol.- Past, Present and future of succinate.- Glutamate as a platform chemical of bio-based economy.- Production of long-chain organic for bioindustry.- Essential Technologies for Biorefinery.- Metabolic Engineering for Strain Improvement.- Genome-scale metabolic engineering.- Synthetic regulatory device for design of microbes.- Molecular device for genome redesign for synthetic biology.- Genome-scale genetic engineering for synthetic biology.- Progress in Integrated Bioprocess.

Klappentext

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of techniques applied in biorefinery. it covers the basic principles, upfront research accomplishments as well as successful industrial applications, including all necessary steps for the provision and preparation of the biomass and all possible downstream processing steps. The book is structured in a way that is appropriate for advanced graduate students and professionals in diverse scientific and engineering communities, including biocatalysis, chemical catalysis, metabolic engineering, bioprocess engineering as well as in various engineering disciplines.