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Green Biomass Pretreatment for Biofuels Production

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Tingyue Gu

    1. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, USA

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. “Plant Cell Wall Structure-Pretreatment” the Critical Relationship in Biomass Conversion to Fermentable Sugars

    • Ahmed Faik
    Pages 1-30

  3. Thermo-Mechanical Pretreatment of Feedstocks

    • Chinnadurai Karunanithy, Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan
    Pages 31-65

  4. Solid-State Biological Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass

    • Caixia Wan, Yebo Li
    Pages 67-86

  5. Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass

    • Iwona Cybulska, Grzegorz Brudecki, Hanwu Lei
    Pages 87-106

  6. Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as a Green Solvent

    • Tingyue Gu
    Pages 107-125

  7. Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass Using Green Ionic Liquids

    • Jian Luo, Meiqiang Cai, Tingyue Gu
    Pages 127-153
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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.

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  • Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, USA

    Tingyue Gu

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