Biomass Conversion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Biomass Conversion to Energy

   • Maneesha Pande, Ashok N. Bhaskarwar

   Pages 1-90

3. Biomass Energy

   • A. K. Kurchania

   Pages 91-122

4. Lignocellulose Pretreatment by Ionic Liquids: A Promising Start Point for Bio-energy Production

   • Haibo Xie, Wujun Liu, Zongbao K. Zhao

   Pages 123-144

5. Application of Ionic Liquids in the Conversion of Native Lignocellulosic Biomass to Biofuels

   • Marcel Lucas, Gregory L. Wagner, Kirk D. Rector

   Pages 145-186

6. Catalysts in Thermochemical Biomass Conversion

   • Ali Sınağ

   Pages 187-197

7. Fatty Acids-Derived Fuels from Biomass via Catalytic Deoxygenation

   • Bartosz Rozmysłowicz, Päivi Mäki-Arvela, Dmitry Yu. Murzin

   Pages 199-220

8. Biobutanol: The Future Biofuel

   • Manish Kumar, Kalyan Gayen

   Pages 221-236

9. Molecular Genetic Strategies for Enhancing Plant Biomass for Cellulosic Ethanol Production

   • Rengasamy Ramamoorthy, Prakash P. Kumar

   Pages 237-250

10. Production of Bioethanol from Food Industry Waste: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Technology

    • V. K. Joshi, Abhishek Walia, Neerja S. Rana

    Pages 251-311

11. Enhancement of Biohydrogen Production by Two-Stage Systems: Dark and Photofermentation

    • Tugba Keskin, Patrick C. Hallenbeck

    Pages 313-340

12. Organosolv Fractionation of Lignocelluloses for Fuels, Chemicals and Materials: A Biorefinery Processing Perspective

    • Ming-Fei Li, Shao-Ni Sun, Feng Xu, Run-Cang Sun

    Pages 341-379

13. Lignin as Source of Fine Chemicals: Vanillin and Syringaldehyde

    • Paula C. Rodrigues Pinto, Eduardo A. Borges da Silva, Alírio E. Rodrigues

    Pages 381-420

14. Liquefaction of Softwoods and Hardwoods in Supercritical Methanol: A Novel Approach to Bio-Oil Production

    • J. Andres Soria, Armando G. McDonald

    Pages 421-433

15. Bioextraction: The Interface of Biotechnology and Green Chemistry

    • Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Alok Adholeya, Aditi Puri, Manab Das

    Pages 435-457

16. Back Matter

    Pages 459-465

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The consumption of petroleum has surged during the 20th century, at least partially because of the rise of the automobile industry. Today, fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas provide more than three quarters of the world's energy. Unfortunately, the growing demand for fossil fuel resources comes at a time of diminishing reserves of these nonrenewable resources. The worldwide reserves of oil are sufficient to supply energy and chemicals for only about another 40 years, causing widening concerns about rising oil prices. The use of biomass to produce energy is only one form of renewable energy that can be utilized to reduce the impact of energy production and use on the global environment. Biomass can be converted into three main products such as energy, biofuels and fine chemicals using a number of different processes. Today, it is a great challenge for researchers to find new environmentally benign methodology for biomass conversion, which are industrially profitable as well. This book focuses on the conversion of biomass to biofuels, bioenergy and fine chemicals with the interface of biotechnology, microbiology, chemistry and materials science. An international scientific authorship summarizes the state-of-the-art of the current research and gives an outlook on future developments.

• Bioconversion
• Bioenergy
• Biofuels
• Biomass
• Fine chemicals
• Microbial production of biofuels
• Renewable energy
• Renewable phenolics

• , Dept. of Environmental Engineering and B, Myongji University, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

  Chinnappan Baskar

• , THDC Institute of Hydropower, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India

  Shikha Baskar

• , Dept. of Chemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

  Ranjit S. Dhillon

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