Sustainable Biofuels: Opportunities and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780128202975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str.

Ramesh C. Ray

Spis treści

1. Sustainable biofuels: opportunities and challenges  2. Lignocellulosic biorefineries: the path forward  3. Process consolidation approaches for cellulosic ethanol production  4. Recent advancements in biofuels production with a special attention to fungi  5. Advances in biofuels and by-products from lignin  6. Advanced and sustainable biodiesel fuels: technologies and applications  7. Biobutanol from lignocellulosic biomass and microalgae: Scope, technology, and economics  8. A technological outlook of biokerosene production  9. Production of renewable aviation fuel at industrial scale: opportunities and challenges  10. Techno-economic and life cycle assessment review of sustainable aviation fuel produced via biomass gasification  11. Biogas, biohydrogen, and polyhydroxyalkanoates production from organic waste in the circular economy context  12. Effects of public policies on the sustainability of the biofuels value chain   13. A relook on the biofuels: how can industrial processes underpin the drive for sustainable development?  14. Advances, challenges, and opportunities in genetic engineering for biofuels production   15. Potential uses of halophytes for biofuel production: Opportunities and challenges 16. Algal biofuels-technologies, scope, opportunities, challenges, and applications

O autorze

Dr. Ramesh C. Ray is a former Principal Scientist (Microbiology) and Head of the ICAR- Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (Regional Centre), Bhubaneswar, India. He has 35 years of research experiences in agriculture and food microbiology, published 140 research and review papers in international journals, 63 books chapters, edited 14 books and authored 3 books and received more than 4400 citations. He has more than 40 research papers, book chapters and review articles concerning lactic fermentation of roots and tuber crops (please see the CV). He is a distinguished fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi, India and 10 other scientific societies. Currently, he is Director of Centre for Food Biology & Environmental Studies, a non-government organization at Bhubaneswar, India.