Overview
- Provides up-to-date fundamentals, state-of-the-art reviews, current assessments and prospects in this field
- Covers the techno-economic analysis of the processes
- Contributed by international leading experts in the area
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biofuels and Biorefineries (BIOBIO, volume 4)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biodiesel: Extraction and Production
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Lignocellulose and Industrial Waste: Pretreatment and Conversions
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About this book
Conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels is an active research and development area as trends move to replace traditional fossil fuels with renewable resources. By integrating processing methods with ultrasound and microwave irradiation into biorefineries, the time-scale of many operations can be greatly reduced while the efficiency of the reactions can be remarkably increased so that process intensification can be achieved. “Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ultrasound” and “Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Microwave” are two independent volumes in the Biofuels and Biorefineries series that take different, but complementary approaches for the pretreatment and chemical transformation of biomass into chemicals and biofuels.
The volume “Ultrasound” provides current research advances and prospects in mechanistic principles of acoustic cavitation in sonochemistry, physical and chemical mechanisms in biofuel synthesis, reactor design for transesterification and esterification reactions, lipid extraction from algal biomass, microalgae extraction, biodiesel and bioethanol synthesis, practical technologies and systems, pretreatment of biomass waste sources including lignocellulosic materials, manures and sludges for biogas production, vibration-assisted pelleting, combined chemical-mechanical methods, valorization of starch-based wastes and techno-economic methodology. Each of the 12 chapters has been peer-reviewed and edited to improve both the quality of the text and the scope and coverage of the topics. Both volumes “Ultrasound” and “Microwave” are references designed for students, researchers, academicians and industrialists in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering and include introductory chapters to highlight present concepts of the fundamental technologies and their application.
Dr. Zhen Fang is Professor in Bioenergy, Leader and founder of biomass group, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and is also adjunct Professor of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China.Dr. Richard L Smith, Jr. is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology, Tohoku University, Japan.
Dr. Xinhua Qi is Professor of Environmental Science, Nankai University, China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ultrasound
Editors: Zhen Fang, Richard L. Smith, Jr., Xinhua Qi
Series Title: Biofuels and Biorefineries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9624-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9623-1Published: 09 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0793-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9624-8Published: 26 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2214-1537
Series E-ISSN: 2214-1545
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 358
Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Biochemistry, general, Biotechnology