Green Biomass Pretreatment for Biofuels Production

• Author : Tingyue Gu
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2013-01-03
• Total pages : 153
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : The increasing global demand for energy requires a versatile approach, prompting many researchers to focus on renewable bioenergy from different biomasses, especially cellulosic biomass. Such biomasses can be agricultural wastes, municipal wastes or direct harvests from high-yield energy corps. If properly pre-treated, the subsequent enzyme hydrolysis step is much more ...

• Author : Pratima Bajpai
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2016-03-08
• Total pages : 87
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : The book describes the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for biomass-to-biofuel conversion processes, which is an important step in increasing ethanol production for biofuels. It also highlights the main challenges and suggests possible ways to make these technologies feasible for the biofuel industry. The biological conversion of cellulosic biomass into bioethanol ...

• Author : Ashok Pandey,Sangeeta Negi,Parmeswaran Binod,Christian Larroche
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2014-09-18
• Total pages : 272
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Pretreatment of Biomass provides general information, basic data, and knowledge on one of the most promising renewable energy sources—biomass for their pretreatment—which is one of the most essential and critical aspects of biomass-based processes development. The quest to make the environment greener, less polluted, and less hazardous has ...

• Author : Libing Zhang
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2016
• Total pages : 339
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Of all sustainable resources, only lignocellulosic biomass can be transformed into organic fuels and chemicals that can integrate well with our current transportation infrastructure due to the inherent convenience, cost, and efficiency advantages of these organic fuels over current fuels. However, the high cost of biofuel conversion technologies poses challenges ...

• Author : Zhen Fang
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2013-01-04
• Total pages : 457
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : This book includes 19 chapters contributed by the world's leading experts on pretreatment methods for biomass. It extensively covers the different types of biomass (e.g. molasses, sugar beet pulp, cheese whey, sugarcane residues, palm waste, vegetable oil, straws, stalks and wood), various pretreatment approaches (e.g. physical, thermal, chemical, physicochemical ...

• Author : Helen Treichel,Gislaine Fongaro,Thamarys Scapini,Aline Frumi Camargo,Fábio Spitza Stefanski,Bruno Venturin
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2019-10-15
• Total pages : 93
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : This book addresses the developing area of biomass for technological applications. Written by leading researchers in the field, the book differs from other literature available by providing a detailed, in-depth discussion of the characteristics of these materials. The use of biomass for technological applications is a rapidly growing area in ...

• Author : Charles E. Wyman
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2013-03-27
• Total pages : 568
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Plant biomass is attracting increasing attention as asustainable resource for large-scale production of renewable fuelsand chemicals. However, in order to successfully compete withpetroleum, it is vital that biomass conversion processes aredesigned to minimize costs and maximize yields. Advances inpretreatment technology are critical in order to develophigh-yielding, cost-competitive routes to renewable ...

• Author : Jaya Shankar Tumuluru
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2018-07-26
• Total pages : 458
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Engineering the physical, chemical, and energy properties of lignocellulosic biomass is important to produce high-quality consistent feedstocks with reduced variability for biofuels production. The emphasis of this book will be the beneficial impacts that mechanical, chemical, and thermal preprocessing methods can have on lignocellulosic biomass quality attributes or specifications for ...

• Author : Samuel Asomaning Agyemang
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 270
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Advances the knowledge of alternative pretreatment methods for breaking the interlinkages existing among the components of lignocellulosic biomass including lignin, hemicellulose, and cellulose for easier sugar hydrolysis. Converts the monomeric sugars produced as a result of hydrolysis into ethanol via simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. Isolates and concentrates hemicellulose fractions from ...

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2013-01-04
• Total pages : 164
• ISBN : 9400760523

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• Author : S.I. Mussatto
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2016-02-18
• Total pages : 674
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Biomass Fractionation Technologies for a Lignocellulosic Feedstock-based Biorefinery reviews the extensive research and tremendous scientific and technological developments that have occurred in the area of biorefinering, including industrial processes and product development using ‘green technologies’, often referred as white biotechnology. As there is a huge need for new design concepts ...

• Author : Shyamal Roy
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2021-09-01
• Total pages : 106
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuel is materially obstructed by the compositional and chemical complexity of biomaterials, resulting in a challenge in using these as raw materials for the biofuel production process. This book explains various lignocellulosic biomass pre-treatment methods with emphasis on concepts, practicability, mechanisms of action, and advantages ...

• Author : Pratima Bajpai
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2021
• Total pages : 98
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : This book focuses on the properties of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and recent advances in their application in lignocellulosic biomass processing. Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to biofuels, biochemicals and other value-added products has attracted global attention because it is a readily available, inexpensive and renewable resource. However, in order for biomass ...

• Author : Bon-Jae Gu
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018
• Total pages : 222
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and sustainable resource to produce biofuel as an alternative energy resource for fossil fuels. The biomass is mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Monosaccharides can be produced from cellulose and hemicellulose through enzymatic hydrolysis and subsequent fermentation of the mono-sugars to fuels. To effectively ...

• Author : Syed Ali Ashter
• Publisher : William Andrew
• Release Date : 2017-11-22
• Total pages : 286
• ISBN : 9400760523

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Summary : Technology and Applications of Polymers Derived from Biomass explores the range of different possible routes from biomass to polymeric materials, including the value and limitations of using biomass in material applications and a comparison of petrochemical-derived polymers and bio-based polymers. The book discusses biomass sources, types, chemistry and handling concerns. ...