Renewable Energy Innovations

Alok Kumar Patel, Amit Kumar Sharma

• Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781119785675
• eBook ISBN: 9781119785699
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Engineering General
• Index: Technology & Engineering

RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATIONS

This critical text, designed for microbiologists, biotechnologists, entrepreneurs, process engineers, chemical engineers, electrical engineers, physicists, and environmentalists, assesses the current knowledge about lab-scale and large-scale production of renewable and sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials.

Global warming is having a huge impact on the world's ecosystem. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up early, and plant and animal ranges have relocated. On a worldwide scale, the threat posed by climate change and pollution is obvious. A green and sustainable future necessitates using renewable resources to produce fuels, chemicals, and materials. This book investigates diverse bioprocesses that are crucial to everyday life, including the key concerns regarding the generation of biofuels, energy, and food securities, along with waste management. Commercial interest in biotechnological processes has risen to produce pharmaceuticals, health supplements, foodstuffs, biofuels, and chemicals using a biocatalyst such as enzymes, microorganisms, plant cells, or animal cells in a bioreactor. The sustainability of renewable biomass, replacement of depleted fossil fuels, and the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from the existing chemical and oil industries are the key benefits of switching to bioproducts.

This book discusses bioprocessing to produce biofuels, biobased chemicals, bioproducts, and biomass biorefinery processes. This involves designing novel pretreatment and fractionation technologies for lignocellulose biomass into cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin and the conversion of these streams into biofuels and biobased chemicals via biochemical and thermochemical routes. This book also covers the advancement of oleaginous microorganisms for biofuels and nutraceutical, biological wastewater treatment.

Written and edited by authors from leading biotechnology research groups from across the world, this exciting new volume covers all of these technologies, including the basic concepts and the problems and solutions involved with the practical applications in the real world. Whether for the veteran engineer or scientist, student, manager, or another technician working in the field, this volume is essential for any library.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• 1 Microbial Fuel Cells – A Sustainable Approach to Utilize Industrial Effluents for Electricity Generation
• 2 Nanotechnologies in the Renewable Energy Sector
• 3 Sustainable Approach in Utilizing Bioenergy Commonly for Industrial Zones by Limiting Overall Emission Footprint
• 4 Recycling of Plastic Waste into Transportation Fuels and Value-Added Products
• 5 An Outlook on Oxygenated Fuel for Transportation
• 6 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions and Its Mitigation Technology in Transportation Sector
• 7 Advanced Techniques for Bio-Methanol Production
• 8 Biodiesel Production: Advance Techniques and Future Prospective
• 9 Biomass to Biofuel: Biomass Sources, Pretreatment Methods and Production Strategies
• 10 Opportunity and Challenges in Biofuel Productions through Solar Thermal Technologies
• 11 Algae Biofuels: A Promising Fuel of the Transport Sector
• 12 A Review of Chemical and Physical Parameters of Biodiesel vs. Diesel: Their Environmental and Economic Impact
• 13 An Indian Viewpoint on Promoting Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles: Focussing on the Scope of Fuel Cells
• 14 Microalgae as Source of Bioenergy
• 15 Hazards and Environmental Issues in Biodiesel Industry
• Index
• Also of Interest
• End User License Agreement