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Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals

Biochemicals and Materials Production from Sustainable Biomass Resources

  • 1st Edition - January 30, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Hu Li, S. Saravanamurugan, Ashok Pandey, Sasikumar Elumalai
  • Language: English

Biochemicals and Materials Production from Sustainable Biomass Resources provides a detailed overview of the experimentally developed approaches and strategies that facilitat… Read more

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Description

Biochemicals and Materials Production from Sustainable Biomass Resources provides a detailed overview of the experimentally developed approaches and strategies that facilitate carbon-based materials and fine chemicals derivation from biomass feedstocks with robust catalyst systems and renewed conversion routes. In addition, the book highlights theoretical methods like techno-economic analysis of biobutanol synthesis. As academia and industry are now striving to substitute fossil-based chemicals with alternative renewable resources, second-generation lignocellulosic biomass which does not depend on the food cycle has become increasingly important.

Lignocellulosic biomass is composed of three major polymeric components - lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. The polymers can be degraded into monomeric counterparts through selective conversion routes like hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose and of hemicellulose to xylose.

Key features

  • Includes the recent development of biomass-derived high-value chemicals and functional materials
  • Describes theoretical and technical details of specific conversion routes and preparation methods
  • Covers jointly organic transformations, catalytic synthesis, reaction mechanisms, thermal stability, reaction parameters and solvent effects

Readership

Post-graduates and researchers Academic discipline: Chemisty, especially catalysis chemistry and bioproduct chemistry, chemical engineering and biotechnology

Table of contents

I. Thermal biomass conversion

1. Thermal conversion of biomass to bio-oils

2. Syngas production by biomass gasification

3. Thermal upgrading of lignin to aromatic compounds

4. Amination of biomass to nitrogen-containing compounds

5. Production and applications of bio-chars

II. Enzymatic biomass conversion

6. Enzymatic hydrolysis enhanced by biomass pretreatment

7. Updated technologies for sugar fermentation to bioethanol

8. Techno-economic analysis of butanol biosynthesis

9. Enzymatic production and purification of methane

10. Recent advances in biohydrogen production and process optimization

11. Enzymatic production of organic acids via anaerobic oxidation of biomass

III. Chemocatalytic biomass conversion

12. Solid acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of cellulose

13. Hydrodeoxygenation of biomass-derived pyrolytic oil

14. Hydrogenation of biofuranics with nanocatalysts

15. Direct conversion of cellulosic biomass to furanics

16. Oxidation of bio-based alcohols/carbonyls

17. Hydrodeoxygenation of lignin to hydrocarbons

IV. Biomass-derived materials

18. Cellulose-based biosurfactants

19. Carbonaceous materials from lignocellulosic biomass

20. Production and application of nitrogenous carbon adsorbents

V. Green techniques developed for biomass valorization

21. Photocatalysis of bio-derived lignin to simple aromatic molecules

22. Upgrading of CO2 to N-formamides with low-cost catalysts

23. Biomass valorization via process intensification

24. Chemo-enzymatic cascades for one-pot multi-step biomass conversion

25. Green solvent-mediated processing of biomass feedstocks

26. Effective bioproduct separation techniques and systems

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 30, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

HL

Hu Li

Hu Li is currently associate Professor at Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University (GZU), China. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with a research topic on biomass upgrading at Tohoku University (Japan) and Nanjing Agricultural University (China) under supervision of Prof. R. L. Smith and Prof. Z. Fang, respectively. His research focuses on the catalytic conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels with functional catalytic materials. Dr. Li has more than 60 peer-reviewed papers (H-index 16), 6 patents, 1 co-edited Springer book and 2 book chapters on biomass valorization. He is a guest editor of Current Organic Chemistry, and recently was award by the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation, Ministry of Education (2018).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, State-Local Joint Laboratory for Comprehensive Utilization of Biomass, Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

SS

S. Saravanamurugan

Dr. S. Saravanamurugan is currently Scientist-E at Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali, India. Formerly, he was working as Senior Researcher at Centre for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark since 2010. He moved to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea as Research Scientist in 2005 after obtaining his Ph.D from Anna University, Chennai in the same year. He also worked as post-doctoral fellow at Inha University, South Korea between 2006 and 2007 before moving to Denmark in January 2008. He has more than sixteen years of research experience and his main research topics include synthesis and modification of zeolite and zeotype materials, biomass transformations and ionic liquids. He has 54 peer reviewed publications; two book chapter contributions, and eight patents filed/granted with more than 2000 citations (h Index 21). He has co-authored an article in the prestigious journal Science in 2010, related to conversion of sugars to lactic acid derivatives with Lewis acid containing zeolites. He is visiting professor of Guizhou University, China. He received a DST-DAAD Fellowship during his doctoral studies in 2004.
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist, Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali, Punjab, India

AP

Ashok Pandey

Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. His major research and technological development interests are industrial and environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels and chemicals, waste to wealth and energy, etc.

Affiliations and expertise
Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow, India

SE

Sasikumar Elumalai

Dr. Elumalai is currently a research scientist at the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), India. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering discipline from the Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu. He then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) for gaining the post-doctoral experience. His current research at CIAB, Mohali focuses on the thermochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass materials to high-value platform molecules (bulk chemicals). The principal activities of his research work include the development of protocols for the selective isolation of biomass constituents like lignin and hemicellulose for the synthesis of low molecular weight compounds, catalytic conversion of cellulose/glucose to fructose and further to levulinic acid and its kinetic modelling. He has about 20 peer reviewed publications, three book chapter contributions, and two patents filed and one granted patent.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist, Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali, Punjab, India

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