Overview
- The first book focused on pretreatment techniques for biofuels contributed by the world's leading experts
- Extensively covers the different types of biomass, various pretreatment approaches and methods that show the subsequent production of biofuels and chemicals
- In addition to traditional pretreatment methods, novel techniques are also introduced and discussed
- An accessible reference work for students, researchers, academicians and industrialists in biorefineries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Thermal Pretreatment
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Chemical Pretreatment
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Novel Pretreatment Techniques
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About this book
This book includes 19 chapters contributed by the world's leading experts on pretreatment methods for biomass. It extensively covers the different types of biomass (e.g. molasses, sugar beet pulp, cheese whey, sugarcane residues, palm waste, vegetable oil, straws, stalks and wood), various pretreatment approaches (e.g. physical, thermal, chemical, physicochemical and biological) and methods that show the subsequent production of biofuels and chemicals such as sugars, ethanol, extracellular polysaccharides, biodiesel, gas and oil. In addition to traditional methods such as steam, hot-water, hydrothermal, diluted-acid, organosolv, ozonolysis, sulfite, milling, fungal and bacterial, microwave, ultrasonic, plasma, torrefaction, pelletization, gasification (including biogas) and liquefaction pretreatments, it also introduces and discusses novel techniques such as nano and solid catalysts, organic electrolyte solutions and ionic liquids.
This book offers a review of state-of-the-art research and provides guidance for the future paths of developing pretreatment techniques of biomass for biofuels, especially in the fields of biotechnology, microbiology, chemistry, materials science and engineering. It intends to provide a systematic introduction of pretreatment techniques. It is an accessible reference work for students, researchers, academicians and industrialists in biorefineries.
Zhen Fang is a Professor of Bioenergy and the leader and founder of the biomass group at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an adjunct full Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pretreatment Techniques for Biofuels and Biorefineries
Editors: Zhen Fang
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32735-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-32734-6Published: 04 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44050-2Published: 19 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-32735-3Published: 04 January 2013
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 457
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Renewable and Green Energy, Biotechnology