Bioethanol: Science and technology of fuel alcohol

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