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- Discusses renewable bioenergy from cellulosic biomass
- Focuses on pretreatment methods aimed at minimizing waste disposal
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry for Sustainability (GREENCHEMIST)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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 effective and can effectively minimises the waste disposal.
Green Biomass Pretreatment for Biofuels Production reviews a range of pretreatment methods such as ammonium fiber explosion, steam explosion, dilute acid hydrolysis, alkali hydrolysis, and supercritical carbon dioxide explosion focusing on their final sugar yields from hemicellulose, glucose yields from cellulose, as well as on their feasibilities in bioenergy production processes at various scales.
This book emphasises the tactical mobile and on-farm scales applications that use green pretreatments and processing technologies without the need of on-site waste treatment. Because of the varieties of different biomasses, no single pretreatment is expected to be the universal choice. Some of the pretreatment methods present niche applications are also discussed.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, USA
Tingyue Gu
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Green Biomass Pretreatment for Biofuels Production
Editors: Tingyue Gu
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6052-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6051-6Published: 02 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6052-3Published: 03 January 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 153
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Renewable and Green Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Applied and Technical Physics