Biofuels and Sustainability

Life Cycle Assessments, System Biology, Policies, and Emerging Technologies

Daochen Zhu, Mudasir Ahmad Dar, Mohd. Shahnawaz

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780443214349
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Ciencias físicas
• Subtopic: Energía

Biofuels and Sustainability: Life-cycle Assessments, System Biology, Policies, and Emerging Technologies presents the current progress and challenges related to the sustainability of biofuels. Addressing a wide range of issues, the book examines the methods and technologies, policies for sustainable biofuels, impacts of advanced fuels, recent advances, and future research prospects. Reflecting new developments, emphasis is given to new biological/biochemical approaches that offer the most efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable strategies for biofuel production.Divided into five parts, the first provides an overview of biofuels, the need for alternate fuels, carbon footprints, life cycle assessments, environmental aspects, various generations of biofuels, biofuel production from lignocellulosic material, and artificial intelligence in biofuel production. Part 2 examines the various methods and technologies for biofuels production, with case studies from the USA, UK, and Brazil. Part 3 explores the policies for sustainable biofuels, including current standards, with applications from the USA, European Union, Asia, and Africa. Part 4 analyses the impacts of advanced fuels in the decarbonization of transport, climate change mitigation, sustainable agriculture, and water resources, with perspectives from developed and developing countries. Finally, Part 5 critically reviews the recent advances and future research prospects related to termites, insects, metabolic engineering, microorganisms, and bioreactors. - Provides carbon footprints and lifecycle assessments of biofuel and bioproduct production from 2nd and 3rd generation feedstocks and compliance with the international standards - Highlights the emerging applications of systems biology in biofuel and bioenergy production, including biomimetics and protein engineering - Analyzes the sustainable production of biofuels at various stages, such as feedstock production, biomass pre-treatment and novel bioprospection - Explains the technological challenges of biofuel production, designing novel bioreactors, and value-added processing of biofuel residues - Discusses and analyses biofuel and bioenergy policies from various countries and various regions of the world

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contributors
• About the editors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : A perspective on the emergence and need of alternate fuels
• Chapter 2 : Environmental aspects of biofuels used as sustainable energy resources: Current situation and future trends
• Chapter 3 : Drawbacks of first-generation biofuels: Challenges and paradigm shifts in technology for second- and third-generation biofuels
• Chapter 4 : Preprocessing of lignocellulosic waste for biofuels production
• Chapter 5 : Nanobiotechnology in biofuel production and implementation
• Chapter 6 : A holistic approach toward the maximum conversion of lignocellulose into biofuels
• Chapter 7 : Methodology for the evaluation of the potential of solid biofuels, their environmental impacts, and applications in end-use technologies in developing countries
• Chapter 8 : Targeting lignin as a substrate for future biorefinery
• Chapter 9 : Using systems biology to exploit the resources/natural reservoirs for biofuel production
• Chapter 10 : Exploiting the gut bacteria for the production of biofuels from lignocellulose
• Chapter 11 : Rumen microbiota: Potential biocatalyst for biofuels
• Chapter 12 : Economics and guidelines for the production of biofuels in the United States
• Chapter 13 : European Union guidelines for the production of different generations of biofuels
• Chapter 14 : African countries' regulations and guidelines for the production of biofuels: A quality control analysis of Uganda
• Chapter 15 : Hindrances and drawbacks of the existing policies and roadmap for sustainable production of biofuels: An Indian scenario
• Chapter 16 : Impact of advanced biofuels to promote decarbonized transport
• Chapter 17 : Impact of advanced biofuels on climate change
• Chapter 18 : Impact of advanced biofuels on water resources
• Chapter 19 : The impact of developed countries advanced biofuel production on developing countries
• Chapter 20 : Can termites serve as models for future biorefinery?
• Chapter 21 : Nontermite insects as biomimetic models to advance the production of second- and third-generation biofuels
• Chapter 22 : Metabolic engineering and designing of the novel biomass species for enhanced production of biofuels
• Chapter 23 : Metabolic engineering of Ogataea polymorpha for biofuel production
• Chapter 24 : Design of the novel bioreactors for efficient bioconversion of lignocellulose into bioethanol
• Chapter 25 : Microbial production of biofuels: An insight into cocultivation, challenges, and future prospects
• Index
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