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Nanotechnology for Advanced Biofuels

Fundamentals and Applications

  • 1st Edition - March 16, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ashok Kumar Nadda, Swati Sharma, Muhammad Bilal, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Ram K. Gupta
  • Language: English

Nanotechnology for Advanced Biofuels: Fundamentals and Applications highlights emerging techniques for the formulation of fuels using nanotechnology and bio-based concepts.… Read more

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Description

Nanotechnology for Advanced Biofuels: Fundamentals and Applications highlights emerging techniques for the formulation of fuels using nanotechnology and bio-based concepts. The addition of high-energy nanoparticles and biologically derived molecules in liquid fuel can increase the potential of energy-rich compounds. Key challenges in the production of nanotechnology-based fuels and their combustion or ignition during the operation are covered, along with the emission of oxidized particles and by-products of incomplete combustion and nano-fuels as an emerging field.

The bio-based energy-rich fuels are largely diffused in conventionally used fuels. The addition of biofuels and nano-additives to pre-existing fuels can offer opportunities for developing modified fuels in domestic industries with the maximum usage of renewable biomass. This is an important reference source for materials scientists, energy scientists and chemical engineers who want to understand more about how nanotechnology can help create more efficient biofuels.

Key features

  • Shows how nano-additives can significantly improve the properties and efficiency of biofuels
  • Provides information to help readers better understand the basic and advanced applications of nano-additive-based biofuels
  • Assesses the challenges of manufacturing nanotechnology-enhanced biofuels on an industrial scale

Readership

Materials Scientists, Energy Engineers, Chemical Engineers

Table of contents

1. Biouels: An overview

2. Green approaches to blend fuels with nanomaterials

3. Nanomaterials as additives for use in conventional fuels

4. Nanomaterial-bound biocatalysts for fuel synthesis

5. Advanced techniques for the formulation of nano-additive blended fuels

6. Effect of nano-additives on the performance of ignition engines

7. Characteristics and effects on ignition of fuel with nano-sized materials

8. Biomass-derived additives as blends in fuels

9. Nano-formulated biofuels and their performance

10. Non-edible waste bio-based oils as additives in conventional fuels. Magnetic nano-fuels and their performance

11. CNT-based nano-fuels: performance and emission

12. 2D nanomaterials as lubricant additives

13. Graphene quantum dot/nanoplatelets as nano-lubricant additives

14. Metal oxide-based nanomaterials as additives in nano-fuels

15. Rare earth metals and their derivatives as additives in nano-fuels

16. Boron nanoparticles as nano-fuel additives

17. Cerium and aluminum-based nanomaterials as additives in nano-fuels

18. Radiation-mediated combustion of nano-fuels and its effects

19. Applications of nano-fuels in automobiles and industries

20. Effects of nano-fuel additives to reduce total emissions

21. Toxicity and hazardous effects of nano-additives in fuels

22. Adverse effects, on respiratory and nervous systems, of nanosized additives in fuel

23. Technical challenges and practical viability (Nano-fuels stability and durability)

24. Economy aspects and future visions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 16, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

AN

Ashok Kumar Nadda

Dr. Ashok Kumar Nadda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, at Jaypee University of Information Technology, India. His research interests are microbial biotechnology, biocatalysis, biopolymers, enzyme immobilization, bioenergy, and CO2 conversion.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India

SS

Swati Sharma

Dr. Swati Sharma (MSc, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni Solan H.P. India; PhD. University Malaysia, Pahang, Malaysia) is Assistant Professor at University Institute of Biotechnology, the Chandigarh University Mohali, India. She worked as a visiting researcher in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea. She has also worked as a program co-coordinator at the Himalayan Action Research Center (HARC), Dehradun, and Senior Research Fellow at the India Agricultural Research Institute in 2013-2014. Presently, Dr. Sharma's research is in the field of bioplastics, hydrogels, keratin nano-fibers and nano-particles, biodegradable polymers and polymers with antioxidant and anticancer activities and sponges. Dr. Swati has published numerous books and papers in various internationally reputed journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

MB

Muhammad Bilal

Muhammad Bilal is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Previously, he served as an assistant/associate Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and the School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in bioengineering and applied biotechnology. His main research activities are oriented to Environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications, and industrial applications of microbial enzymes, liquid, and solid waste management. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books. Dr. Bilal is the associate editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers), and an editorial board member for several journals. He was listed as a highly cited researcher (Clarivate) in 2021 and holds several "highly cited papers" in WOS.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

TN

Tuan Anh Nguyen

Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

RG

Ram K. Gupta

Ram Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, Kansas, United States. His research focus is in green energy production and storage using nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, conducting polymers and composites as well as bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA

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