Table of Contents
1. Introduction: biodiesel and biorefineries: Its interest, markets, regulations and characteristics2. Overview of current processes for biodiesel production
3. Recent studies concerning non-traditional sources for biodiesel production
4. Recent developments in catalytic systems for biodiesel production:
5. Modelling and techno-economic assessment of biodiesel production processes
6. Use of machine learning and data mining within biodiesel production
7. Environmental impacts regarding biodiesel production
Authors
Jo�o Fernando Gomes Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering (ISEL), Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon / CERENA, University of Lisbon, Portugal.Prof. Dr. Jo�o Fernando Gomes is Habilitated Coordinating Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering (ISEL) at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, and Senior Researcher at CERENA, University of Lisbon, in Portugal. His research covers several areas related to optimized and clean processes, clean energy and clean chemical technologies.
Jorge Mario Marchetti Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), �s, Norway.Prof. Dr. Jorge Mario Marchetti is a Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), in �s, Norway, as well as Coordinator of the European Research Project UNPRECEDENTED. Dr. Marchetti is the leader of the Reaction Engineering and Catalysis Group which works on waste-based biorefinery, biochemical production, biofuel production, and mathematical modeling, kinetics modeling and techno economy assessment of upscaling technologies.
