Handbook of Biorefinery Research and Technology

ISBN-13: 9789400763074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 2950 str.

Jong Moon Park

Opis

This book reviews biorefinery techniques, covering basic principles, upfront research accomplishments and successful industrial applications, including necessary steps for the provision and preparation of the biomass and all downstream processing steps.

Spis treści

Feedstock: General.- Agriculture residues.- Designing the perfect plant feedstock for biofuel production.- Microalgae: True sustainable feedstock.- Life Cycle Assessment of biomass production.- Pretreatment.- Nonbiological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.- Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.- Use of ionic liquids in converting lignocellulosic material to biofuels.- Pretreatment of macroalgae.- Saccharification.- Saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel and biorefinery applications.- Solid acid mediated hydrolysis of biomass for producing biofuels.- Microalgae.- Cultivation of Microalgae.- Microalgae Harvest.- Recent Advances in Biofuel Production.- Recent Developments in fermentative Bio-Hydrogen Production.- Progress in photosynthetic bio-hydrogen production.- Progress in Bio-oil Production.- Technical Advances in ethanol biofuel production.- Progress in the development of butanol production.- Progress in alkane biofuel.- Technologies on bio-gas production.- Progress in ethanol production from carbon monoxide.- Progress in the production of platform chemicals in biorefinery.- Recent development in bioproduction and application of 3-HP.- Progress in Polylactate production.- Progress in butanediol.- Past, Present and future of succinate.- Glutamate as a platform chemical of bio-based economy.- Production of long-chain organic for bioindustry.- Essential Technologies for Biorefinery.- Metabolic Engineering for Strain Improvement.- Genome-scale metabolic engineering.- Synthetic regulatory device for design of microbes.- Molecular device for genome redesign for synthetic biology.- Genome-scale genetic engineering for synthetic biology.- Progress in Integrated Bioprocess.

O autorze

​Prof Virendra S. Bisaria, a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, was till 2018 a professor of biochemical engineering at the Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT Delhi where he worked for about 42 years. He has extensive experience of working on different aspects of cellulosic biorefinery.   He was a post-doc at ETH-Zurich (Switzerland), University of Minnesota (USA), and Cambridge University (UK). He was also a visiting professor at International Centre of Biotechnology, Osaka University, Osaka and at Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. He has published more than 110 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and about 20 book chapters. He along with Prof A. Kondo of Kobe University has edited a book “Bioprocessing of Renewable Resources to Commodity Bioproducts”, which was published by Wiley in 2014. His awards include the Research Exchange Award from the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering. He is an editor of the Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering and serves on the editorial board of Process Biochemistry. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, India and a vice-president of Asian Federation of Biotechnology.

Blurb

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of techniques applied in biorefinery. it covers the basic principles, upfront research accomplishments as well as successful industrial applications, including all necessary steps for the provision and preparation of the biomass and all possible downstream processing steps. The book is structured in a way that is appropriate for advanced graduate students and professionals in diverse scientific and engineering communities, including biocatalysis, chemical catalysis, metabolic engineering, bioprocess engineering as well as in various engineering disciplines.