Bioethanol: Science and technology of fuel alcohol

publisher: UK-TB

Language‎: English

price: 199 $

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Biofuels play significant roles in decarbonisation of our future energy needs and act to mitigate deleterious impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. Bioethanol - fermentation-derived fuel alcohol - is the world’s leading transportation biofuel and is currently produced from cereal and sugarcane feedstocks. However, the future lies with more sustainable fermentation substrates, including bio-wastes from agriculture and woody biomass.

This book provides a timely overview of biomass-to-bioethanol conversion technologies and is aimed mainly at advanced students of biological and environmental sciences.

Content :-

  • Introduction
    1. What is bioethanol?
    2. Economic aspects
    3. Energy balances
    4. Main drivers for bioethanol
    5. References
  • Global production of bioethanol
    1. Statistics
    2. National and international directives
    3. Current and emerging status
    4. References
  • Bioethanol feedstocks
    1. First generation feedstocks (starch and sugar-based)
    2. Second generation feedstocks (cellulose-based)
    3. Bioethanol feedstocks with future potential
    4. Feedstock processing
    5. Alternative routes to ethanol
    6. References
  • Fermentation aspects
    1. Microbes for fermentation
    2. Fermentation – theoretical aspects
    3. Fermentation – applied aspects
    4. Sucrose fermentations
    5. Starch hydrolysate fermentations
    6. Lignocellulosic hydrolysate fermentations
    7. References
  • Distillation
    1. Distillation technology – theoretical aspects
    2. Distillation technology – applied aspects
    3. Anhydrous ethanol methods
    4. Biorefi nery concept
    5. References
  • Bioethanol quality control
    1. Quality parameters – process and product
    2. Fuel alcohol specifi cations, denaturation requirements
    3. References
  • Environmental aspects
    1. Sustainability and climate change
    2. Energy and water conservation
    3. Co-products: generation and utilisation
    4. Effluent treatment and control
    5. References
  • Future prospects for Bioethanol
    1. Global trends and issues
    2. Future challenges
    3. References
  • Further reading
  • Notes

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