Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels: Opportunities and Perception

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This volume focuses on the prospects of the conversion of biomass into biofuels including ethanol, butanol, biogas, biohydrogen, biodiesel, syn-gas and other useful products. Biomass-derived fuels have gained tremendous attention worldwide. However, due to high raw material and processing costs, biofuels produced from lignocelluloses have been found to be more expensive than conventional fuels. Therefore, a concept of biorefining has been introduced, where more than one product or each and every component of biomass may be derived into useful products in a manner of petroleum refinery. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Biorefining of Lignocelluloses: An Opportunity for Sustainable Biofuel Production (Pratibha Dheeran, Lalini Reddy)....Pages 1-23 Biomass, Its Potential and Applications (Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Amit R. Patel, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Tyagi)....Pages 25-52 Biomass Gasification and Sustainability Assessment of Biomass Utilization (Amit R. Patel, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Tyagi)....Pages 53-85 Advances in Transformation of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Carbohydrate-Derived Fuel Precursors (Sasikumar Elumalai, Bhumica Agarwal, Troy M. Runge, Rajender S. Sangwan)....Pages 87-116 Biodiesel Synthesis: Use of Activated Carbon as Support of the Catalysts (Aida Mireya Ramírez-Arias, Liliana Giraldo, Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján)....Pages 117-152 Utilization of Biodiesel in Compression Ignition Engines (K. A. Subramanian)....Pages 153-165 Potential Role of Halophile in Crude Glycerol Based Biorefinery (Noopur Singh, Rukmini Roy, Swapna K. Srivastava, Bijan Choudhury)....Pages 167-186 Bio-jet Fuel (Dilip Kumar Adhikari)....Pages 187-201 Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass Toward Biofuel Production (Soumya Sasmal, Kaustubha Mohanty)....Pages 203-221 Operational Strategies for Enzymatic Hydrolysis in a Biorefinery (Daniela L. Aguilar, Rosa M. Rodríguez-Jasso, Elisa Zanuso, Anely A. Lara-Flores, Cristóbal N. Aguilar, Arturo Sanchez et al.)....Pages 223-248 Prospects of Solvent Tolerance in Butanol Fermenting Bacteria (Shuvashish Behera, Nilesh Kumar Sharma, Sachin Kumar)....Pages 249-264 Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation of Lignocellulosic Biomass (Avanthi Althuri, Anjani Devi Chintagunta, Knawang Chhunji Sherpa, Rintu Banerjee)....Pages 265-285 Bioalkanes and Bioalkenes: An Ecofriendly and Alternate Fuel in Bioenergy Research (Lohit K. S. Gujjala, Sanjeev Kumar, Rajiv Chandra Rajak, Rintu Banerjee)....Pages 287-304 Algal Biorefineries for Biofuels and Other Value-Added Products (Madhulika Shukla, Sachin Kumar)....Pages 305-341 Biodiesel—Technical Viability for India (S. Sakthivel, S. Suresh, N. Selvaraju)....Pages 343-359 Kinetic Modeling of Ethanol Production for Substrate–Microbe System (S. Suresh, V. C. Srivastava, S. Sakthivel, S. Arisutha)....Pages 361-372