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Sustainable Bioenergy. Advances and Impacts

  • Book

  • May 2019
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 4720934

Sustainable Bioenergy: Advances and Impacts presents a careful overview of advances and promising innovation in the development of various bioenergy technologies. It covers the production of bio-jet fuel, algal biofuels, recent developments in bioprocesses, nanotechnology applications for energy conversion, the role of different catalysts in the production of biofuels, and the impacts of those fuels on society. The book brings together global experts to form a big picture of cutting-edge research in sustainable bioenergy and biofuels. It is an ideal resource for researchers, students, energy analysts and policymakers who will benefit from the book's overview of impacts and innovative needs.

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Table of Contents

1. Lignocellulosic feedstocks for the production of bioethanol: Availability, structure and composition 2. Rural Bio-refinery: A viable solution for Production of fuel and chemicals in Rural India 3. Sustainable Bioenergy Development in Africa: Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward 4. Biohydrogen Production and Bagasse Gasification Process in the Sugarcane Industry 5. Bio jet-fuel production from biomass 6. Bio-oil Production and Upgrading Technology 7. New Trends in Biogas Production and Utilization 8. Current challenges and advances in Butanol production 9. Mesoporous and other type of catalyst for conversion of non-edible oil to bio-gasoline via deoxygenation 10. Third generation biofuels: an overview 11. Nano-biocatalytic processes for producing biodiesel from algae 12. Impacts of sustainable biofuels production from biomass 13. Socio-economic impacts of harnessing the lignocellulose into biofuels 14. The challenges in the regulation of nanotechnology in sustainable production of bioenergy

Authors

Mahendra Rai Visiting Scientist, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. Professor Mahendra Rai is a UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former head of the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. Presently, he is a visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. He is a member of several scientific societies. His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, his group's main research interest is green synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. Prof. Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Medini Award by the Government of India. He has been featured in Stanford's list of the top 2% of scientists in nanoscience. Avinash P. Ingle Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Avinash P. Ingle has completed his doctoral degree from Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra (India). He had worked as Research Scientist in the same department from 2013-2016. He has more than 60 research publications, 45 book chapters and 2 books to his credit. He has been awarded travel grants from different Indian funding agencies to present his research work in international conferences held at Malaysia, China, Spain and France. Currently Dr. Ingle is working as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena -University of S�o Paulo, Brazil and he is actively engaged in development nanotechnology-based methods for the efficient production of biofuels.