Advances in Eco-Fuels for a Sustainable Environment. Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to sustainable eco-fuels 2. Eco-fuel feedstocks and their prospect 3. Prospect of biodiesel feedstocks as an effective eco-fuel source and their challenges 4. Sustainable feedstocks for eco-fuel: sources, properties, and prospects 5. Eco-fuel extraction technologies 6. Anaerobic digestion of various feed stocks for second generation biofuel production 7. Advances in bio-oil extraction from plant and algal sources 8. Efficient eco-fuel conversion approaches and techniques 9. Advances in eco-fuel conversion technologies 10. Catalyst free bio-crude eco-fuel production via subcritical hydrothermal liquefaction of biogas digestate 11. Eco-fuel characteristics and behaviour analysis 12. Eco-fuel and its compatibility with different automotive materials 13. Eco-fuel applications in internal combustion engine to mitigate harmful emission 14. Assessment of performance, combustion and emission behaviour of novel Annona biodiesel operated diesel engine 15. Eco-fuel applications in CI engine 16. Commercial prospect of eco-fuel as a new horizon for future scopes 17. Eco-fuel future prospect and community impact

Authors

Abul Kalam Azad The School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Melbourne Campus, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Kalam Azad is a Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Queensland University, Australia. He has a strong record of research publications and achievement in the areas of renewable energy technologies, energy conversion, and thermofluids engineering and their relevant industrial applications. His research focuses on clean energy production and mitigation of environmental pollution. He has published about eighty scientific articles including three edited refereed books, eight book chapters, forty-seven journal articles, and twenty-four conference papers so far. He made significant contributions to engineering education, research, and scholarship. The recognition of his research has been strongly demonstrated through a large number of citations and h-index both in Scopus and Google Scholar. He is also working as a reviewer of different renowned international journals and books. Currently, he is a member of different professional bodies throughout the world. He has been significantly contributing to the strategic research on Clean and Sustainable Energy Technologies at Central Queensland University, Australia.