Next-Generation Biofuels delves into recent innovations and research advancements in alternative fuel processing for sustainable energy management. Focusing on thermochemical biorefining technologies, the book explores the production of advanced biofuel products, covering topics such as reaction mechanisms, catalysis, kinetic modeling, thermodynamics, process integration and optimization. It also addresses key aspects like process design and scale-up, supply chain management, and lifecycle and techno-economic assessments. The book highlights the benefits and drivers of next-generation biofuels, examining economic feasibility, sustainability, and policy frameworks through detailed case studies. Furthermore, it discusses future challenges and opportunities for large-scale implementation of thermochemical biomass conversion technologies.
Aimed at scientists, researchers, engineers, and students in the field, this book offers valuable insights into biofuels, biochemicals, and biomass conversion technologies and its potential impact on sustainability.
1. Focused perspectives on sustainable technologies for biofuels and biochemicals production: A review of opportunities and bottlenecks
2. Breakthrough in the co-production of biomethane and biohydrogen using fermentative technologies
3. Technological advances in gasification technology to generate high-grade syngas fuels
4. Production of green hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals from catalytic Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
5. Current developments in transesterification technology to produce biodiesel
6. Production and upgrading of bio-crude oil from hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass
7. Hydroprocessing of bio-oil and bio-crude oil for catalytic upgrading to clean transportation fuels
8. Production and application of bio-jetfuel as a renewable aviation fuel
9. Recent advances in biomass pyrolysis for bio-oil and biochar production
10. Promising applications of biochar in agriculture and environmental restoration
11. Emerging applications of biochar in anaerobic digestion for improved biogas production
12. Lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of biorefinery technologies for scale-up and commercialization
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