Overview
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Ravindra Pogaku
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University Malaysia Sabah, Kotakinabalu, Malaysia
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Rosalam Hj. Sarbatly
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University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Timely publication about energy and the environment
Displays improved techniques for extracting energy from biomass (cheaper, more efficient, less, waste)
Written for students but suitable for the interested lay reader
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Biofuels Opportunity
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- Soh Kheang Loh, Yuen May Choo
Pages 3-14
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- Teck Wai Pang, Ming Tong Lee
Pages 15-26
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Biomass Conversion
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- Suzana Yusup, Murni Melati Ahmad, Anita Ramli, Khan Zakir, Mas Fatiha Mohamad
Pages 29-39
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- Matlal Fajri Alif, Kozo Matsumoto, Kuniyuki Kitagawa
Pages 41-51
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- Keat Teong Lee, Cynthia Ofori-Boateng
Pages 53-87
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- Nelfa Desmira, Shigeaki Morita, Kitagawa Kuniyuki
Pages 89-96
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- Ravindra Pogaku, Tapan Kumar Biswas, Rahmath Abdulla
Pages 97-104
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Biodiesel Production
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Front Matter
Pages 105-105
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- A. H. Kamaruddin, N. A. Serri, J. H. Sim, S. F. A. Halim, S. R. A. Rahaman
Pages 107-125
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- Ahmad Hafiidz Mohammad Fauzi, Nor Aishah Saidina Amin
Pages 127-152
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- Y. H. Taufiq-Yap, H. V. Lee
Pages 153-176
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Enzymatic Biofuels
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Front Matter
Pages 177-177
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- Rahmath Abdulla, Ravindra Pogaku
Pages 191-216
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Algal Biofuels
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Front Matter
Pages 217-217
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- Rachel Fran Mansa, Wei-Fang Chen, Siau-Jen Yeo, Yan-Yan Farm, Hafeza Abu Bakar, Coswald Stephen Sipaut
Pages 219-240
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- Rosalam Hj. Sarbatly, Emma Suali
Pages 241-258
About this book
​Biofuels will play a key role in the 21st century as the world faces two critical problems; volatile fuel prices and global climatic changes. Both of these are linked to the overdependence on the fossil fuels: petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Transportation is almost totally dependent on petroleum based fuels such as gasoline, diesel fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, and on natural gas. Despite a significant amount of research into biofuels, the field has not been able to replace fossil fuels. Recent advances will change this scenario. Extracting fuel from biomass has been very expensive (both monetarily and in land usage), time consuming, unusable byproducts, etc. Technology to obtain liquid fuel from non-fossil sources must be improved to be faster, more efficient and more cost-effective. This book will cover the current technology used for a variety of plant types and explore shortcomings with each.
Editors and Affiliations
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University Malaysia Sabah, Kotakinabalu, Malaysia
Ravindra Pogaku
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University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Rosalam Hj. Sarbatly
About the editors
Dr.Pogaku Ravindra Professor of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering Postgraduate coordinator School of Engineering and Information Technology University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Rosalam Hj.Sarbatly, Ph.D Dean/Assoc.Prof. School Of Engineering and Information Technology, University Malaysia Sabah
