Pretreatment techniques for biofuels and biorefineries / / Zhen Fang, editor

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, : Springer, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Disciplina: 662.88
• Soggetto topico: Biomass energy; Biomass energy industries
• Altri autori: FangZhen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Biopretreatment -- pt. 2. Thermal pretreatment -- pt. 3. Chemical pretreatment -- pt. 4. Physicochemical pretreatment -- pt. 5. Gasification, liquefaction and biogas -- pt. 6. Novel pretreatment techniques -- pt. 7. Pretreatment of different types of biomass.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book includes 19 chapters contributed by the world's leading experts on pretreatment methods for biomass. It extensively covers the different types of biomass (e.g. molasses, sugar beet pulp, cheese whey, sugarcane residues, palm waste, vegetable oil, straws, stalks and wood), various pretreatment approaches (e.g. physical, thermal, chemical, physicochemical and biological) and methods that show the subsequent production of biofuels and chemicals such as sugars, ethanol, extracellular polysaccharides, biodiesel, gas and oil. In addition to traditional methods such as steam, hot-water, hydrothermal, diluted-acid, organosolv, ozonolysis, sulfite, milling, fungal and bacterial, microwave, ultrasonic, plasma, torrefaction, pelletization, gasification (including biogas) and liquefaction pretreatments, it also introduces and discusses novel techniques such as nano and solid catalysts, organic electrolyte solutions and ionic liquids. This book offers a review of state-of-the-art research and provides guidance for the future paths of developing pretreatment techniques of biomass for biofuels, especially in the fields of biotechnology, microbiology, chemistry, materials science and engineering. It intends to provide a systematic introduction of pretreatment techniques. It is an accessible reference work for students, researchers, academicians and industrialists in biorefineries. Zhen Fang is a Professor of Bioenergy and the leader and founder of the biomass group at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an adjunct full Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China.
• Titolo autorizzato: Pretreatment techniques for biofuels and biorefineries
• ISBN: 1-283-94629-7; 3-642-32735-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910437779103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Green Energy and Technology, . 1865-3529