Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributing Authors -- 1 A new concept of biorefinery comes into operation: the EuroBioRef concept / Dumeignil, Franck -- 2 Refinery of the future: feedstock, processes, products / Dubois, Jean-Luc -- 3 The terrestrial biomass: formation and properties (crops and residual biomass) / Christou, Myrsini / Alexopoulou, Efthimia -- 4 Production of aquatic biomass and extraction of bio-oil / Dibenedetto, Angela -- 5 Biomass pretreatment: separation of cellulose , hemicellulose, and lignin - existing technologies and perspectives / Raspolli Galletti, Anna Maria / Antonetti, Claudia -- 6 Conversion of cellulose and hemicellulose into platform molecules: chemical routes / Serrano, David / Coronado, Juan M. / Melero, Juan A. -- 7 Conversion of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin into platform molecules: biotechnological approach / Rødsrud, Gudbrand / Frölander, Anders / Sjöde, Anders / Lersch, Martin -- 8 Conversion of lignin: chemical technologies and biotechnologies - oxidative strategies in lignin upgrade / Decina, Silvia / Crestini, Claudia -- 9 Process development and metabolic engineering for bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass / Agrimi, Gennaro / Pisano, Isabella / Palmieri, Luigi -- 10 Catalytic conversion of biosourced raw materials: homogeneous catalysis / Fischmeister, Cédric / Bruneau, Christian / De Oliveira Vigier, Karine / Jérôme, François -- 11 Catalytic conversion of oils extracted from seeds: from polyunsaturated long chains to functional molecules / Garrier, Eva / Packet, Dirk -- 12 Heterogeneous catalysis applied to the conversion of biogenic substances, platform molecules, and oils / Dibenedetto, Angela / Colucci, Antonella / Pastore, Carlo -- 13 Biomass gasification: gas production and cleaning for diverse applications - CHP and chemical syntheses / Panopoulos, Kyriakos D. / Christodoulou, Christos / Koytsoumpa, Efthymia-Ioanna -- 14 From Syngas to fuels and chemicals: chemical and biotechnological routes / Ricci, Marco / Perego, Carlo -- 15 Conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals via thermochemical processes / Lappas, Angelos A. / Iliopoulou, Eleni F. / Kalogiannis, Konstantinos / Stefanidis, Stylianos -- 16 Cellulosic ethanol production in northern Sweden - a case study of economic performance and GHG emissions / Slade, Raphael -- 17 Anaerobic fermentation: biogas from waste - the basic science / Aresta, Michele -- 18 From lab-scale to full-scale biogas plants / Farina, Roberto / Spagni, Alessandro -- Index |