Fundamentals of Biofuels Engineering and Technology
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This book explores the use of biomass as an energy source and its application in energy conversion technologies. Focusing on the challenges of, and technologies related to, biomass conversion, the book is divided into three parts. The first part underlines the fundamental concepts that form the basis of biomass production, its feasibility valuation, and its potential utilization. This part does not consider only how biomass is generated, but also methods of assessment. The second part focuses on the clarification of central concepts of the biorefinery processes. After a preliminary introduction with industrial examples, common issues of biochemical reaction engineering applications are analysed in detail. The theory explained in this part demonstrates that the chemical kinetics are the core focus in modelling biological processes such as growth, decay, product formation and feedstock consumption. This part continues with the theory of biofuels production, including biogas, bioethanol, biodiesel and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons. The third part of this book gives detailed explanations of preliminary notions related to the theory of thermodynamics. This theory will assist the reader when taking into account the concepts treated in the previous two parts of the book. Several detailed derivations are given to give the reader a full understanding of the arguments at hand. This part also gives literature data on the main properties of some biomass feedstock. Fundamentals of Biofuels Engineering and Technology will be of interest not only to academics and researchers working in this field but also to graduate students and energy professionals seeking to expand their knowledge of this increasingly important area. Front Matter ....Pages i-xl Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 3-12 Light Harvesting and Biomass Generation (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 13-30 Redox Potential and Galvanic Cells (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 31-45 Overview of the Main Mechanisms of Photosynthesis (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 47-56 Work from Light (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 57-69 Some Types of Analyses Conducted on Biomass (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 71-89 Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 91-102 Chromatography (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 103-125 Examples of Quantitative Content Determination in Chromatography and Elemental Analysis (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 127-139 Some Considerations and Statistical Derivations for the Concentration Profile and Gaussian Curve (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 141-143 Front Matter ....Pages 145-145 Introduction to Part 2 (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 147-153 Integrated Biorefinery Concepts (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 155-171 Electronegativity and Microbial Catalysis (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 173-187 Main Reactors Configurations (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 189-207 Enzyme Kinetics (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 209-220 Balances on Microbial Fermentation (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 221-231 Processes of Bioethanol Production (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 233-252 Biodiesel (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 253-265 Some Chemical Analyses in Biodiesel Production and Biofuel Characteristics (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 267-285 Fischer–Tropsch (FT) Synthesis to Biofuels (BtL Process) (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 287-306 Notions of Biomass Gasification (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 307-334 Front Matter ....Pages 335-335 Preliminary Concepts (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 337-352 Introduction to Entropy and Second Law (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 353-364 Thermodynamics in Chemical Reactions Engineering (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 365-374 Some Parameters and Properties of Biomass Fuels (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 375-395 A Simple Estimation of the Efficiency for a Biomass Power Plant (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 397-403 Some Data on Oxidation and Reduction States and Half-Cell Reactions (Cataldo De Blasio)....Pages 405-410
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