Sustainable Bioenergy: Advances and Impacts

ISBN-13: 9780128176542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str.

Mahendra Rai; Avinash P. Ingle

Spis treści

1. Lignocellulosic feedstocks for the production of bioethanol: Availability, structure and composition 2. Rural Bio-refinery: A viable solution for Production of fuel and chemicals in Rural India3. Sustainable Bioenergy Development in Africa: Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward4. Biohydrogen Production and Bagasse Gasification Process in the Sugarcane Industry 5. Bio jet-fuel production from biomass 6. Bio-oil Production and Upgrading Technology7. New Trends in Biogas Production and Utilization 8. Current challenges and advances in Butanol production 9. Mesoporous and other type of catalyst for conversion of non-edible oil to bio-gasoline via deoxygenation10. Third generation biofuels: an overview11. Nano-biocatalytic processes for producing biodiesel from algae12. Impacts of sustainable biofuels production from biomass13. Socio-economic impacts of harnessing the lignocellulose into biofuels14. The challenges in the regulation of nanotechnology in sustainable production of bioenergy

O autorze

Professor Mahendra Rai is a UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former head of the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. Presently, he is a visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, his group's main research interest is green synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. Prof. Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Medini Award by the Government of India. He has been featured in Stanford's list of the top 2% of scientists in nanoscience.

Dr. Avinash P. Ingle has completed his doctoral degree from Department of Biotechnology, SGB Amravati University, Amravati. He had worked as Research Scientist in the same department from 2013-2016. Later he has awarded Postdoctoral Fellow (FAPESP) at the Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil for three years. Currently, Dr. Ingle is currently working as Research Scientist (Ramanujan Fellow) at Biotechnology Centre, Department of Agricultural Botany, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University, Akola, Maharashtra, India. Dr. Ingle has edited 10 books from various publishers like Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, Blackwell Wiley, etc. in the fields of bioenergy, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Moreover, he has published about 65 book chapters and more than 90 research publications of high repute in esteemed journals. The research interests of Dr. Ingle mainly include nanobiotechnology, biofuel technology and sustainable agriculture.