Next-Generation Biofuels

Sonil Nanda, Prasenjit Mondal

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443275654
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Next-Generation Biofuels delves into recent innovations and research advancements in alternative fuel processing for sustainable energy management. Focusing on thermochemical biorefining technologies, the book explores the production of advanced biofuel products, covering topics such as reaction mechanisms, catalysis, kinetic modeling, thermodynamics, process integration and optimization. It also addresses key aspects like process design and scale-up, supply chain management, and lifecycle and techno-economic assessments. The book highlights the benefits and drivers of next-generation biofuels, examining economic feasibility, sustainability, and policy frameworks through detailed case studies. Furthermore, it discusses future challenges and opportunities for large-scale implementation of thermochemical biomass conversion technologies.Aimed at scientists, researchers, engineers, and students in the field, this book offers valuable insights into biofuels, biochemicals, and biomass conversion technologies and its potential impact on sustainability. - Provides up-to-date info on clean fuel, energy security, waste management, and climate change mitigation - Focuses on thermochemical conversion technologies for waste biomass to biofuels like BtL, BtG, GtL - Covers conversion technologies, hydrotreating technologies, and catalytic processes for alternate fuels production - Emphasizes biomass conversion technologies with flow diagrams, reactor schematics, and statistical data - Explores recent developments in biofuels, bioprocess engineering, and environmental risk assessment - Includes topics like fuel refining, circular economy, lifecycle assessment, and GIS-based biomass supply chain modeling - Aids understanding chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and techno-economic analysis of biofuel production

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1. Focused perspectives on opportunities for biofuel production
• Chapter 2. Valorization of livestock manure for bioenergy recovery
• Chapter 3. Densification of waste biomass to produce durable solid pellets
• Chapter 4. Acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation to produce bioalcohols from biowaste residues
• Chapter 5. Breakthrough in the co-production of biohydrogen and biomethane using fermentative technologies
• Chapter 6. Thermochemical conversion of biomass to syngas via gasification
• Chapter 7. Production of green hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals from catalytic Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
• Chapter 8. Current developments in transesterification technology to produce biodiesel
• Chapter 9. Advancements in biomass pyrolysis for bio-oil and biochar production
• Chapter 10. Bio-jet fuel: Production and applications for sustainable aviation
• Chapter 11. Hydroprocessing and catalytic upgrading of bio-crude for clean transportation fuels
• Chapter 12. Advancements in co-refining biocrude with conventional crude oil: A comparative review of upgradation techniques
• Chapter 13. Sustainable and innovative thermal systems for biochar-based pyrometallurgical processes
• Chapter 14. Emerging applications of biochar in wastewater treatment and anaerobic digestion
• Chapter 15. Sustainable methane-rich biogas production via anaerobic digestion of food processing residues
• Chapter 16. Lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of biorefinery technologies for scale-up and commercialization
• Index