About this book series
Annual global biomass
production is about 220 billion dry tons or 4,500 EJ, equivalent to 8.1 times
the world’s energy consumption in 2020 (556 EJ). On the other hand,
world-proven oil reserves at the end of 2020 reached 1732.4 billion barrels,
which can only meet just over 51.5 years of global production. Therefore,
alternative resources are needed to both supplement and replace fossil oils as
the raw material for transportation fuels, chemicals and materials in
petroleum-based industries. Renewable biomass is a likely candidate, because it
is prevalent over the Earth and is readily converted to other products.
Compared with coal, some of the advantages of biomass are: (i) its
carbon-neutral and sustainable nature when properly managed; (ii) its reactivity
in biological conversion processes; (iii) its potential to produce
bio-oil (ca. yields of 75%) by fast pyrolysis because of its high
oxygen content; (iv) its low sulfur and lack of undesirable contaminants (e.g.
metals, nitrogen content) (v) its wide geographical distribution and (vi)
its potential for creating jobs and industries in energy crop productions
and conversion plants. Many researchers, governments, research institutions and
industries are developing projects for converting biomass including forest
woody and herbaceous biomass into chemicals, biofuels and materials and the
race is on for creating new “biorefinery” processes needed for future
economies. The development of biorefineries will create remarkable
opportunities for the forestry sector, biotechnology, materials, chemical
processing industry, and stimulate advances in agriculture. The Biofuels and Biorefineries Series strives to
highlight methods and technologies that will help industries to shift to
renewable and carbon-neutral resources which will lead to the creation of
sustainable society.
- Electronic ISSN
- 2214-1545
- Print ISSN
- 2214-1537
- Series Editor
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- Zhen Fang
Book titles in this series
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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals from Sustainable Recycling of Organic Solid Waste
- Editors:
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- Zhen Fang
- Richard L. Smith Jr.
- Lujiang Xu
- Copyright: 2022
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Pyrolysis
- Editors:
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- Zhen Fang
- Richard L. Smith Jr
- Lujiang Xu
- Copyright: 2020
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
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Production of Materials from Sustainable Biomass Resources
- Editors:
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- Zhen Fang
- Richard L. Smith, Jr
- Xiao-Fei Tian
- Copyright: 2019
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- eBook
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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Bifunctional Catalysts
- Editors:
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- Zhen Fang
- Richard L. Smith Jr.
- Hu Li
- Copyright: 2017
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
Abstracted and indexed in
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- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series