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Recent Developments in Bioenergy Research

  • 1st Edition - June 21, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Vijai G. Gupta, Helen Treichel, Ramesh Chander Kuhad, Susana Rodriguez-Couto
  • Language: English

Recent Developments in Bioenergy Research reviews all these topics, reports recent research findings, and presents potential solutions to challenging issues. The book consolida… Read more

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Description

Recent Developments in Bioenergy Research reviews all these topics, reports recent research findings, and presents potential solutions to challenging issues. The book consolidates the most recent research on the (bio)technologies, concepts and commercial developments that are currently in progress on different types of widely-used biofuels and integrated biorefineries across biochemistry, biotechnology, biochemical engineering and microbiology. Chapters include very recent/emerging topics, such as non-ionic and ionic liquids/surfactants for enhancement of lignocellulose enzymatic hydrolysis and lignocellulose biomass as a rich source of bio-ionic liquids.

The book is a useful source of information for those working in the area of- industrial wastewater treatment and microbial fuel cells, but is also a great resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, professionals, biochemical engineers and other interested individuals/groups working in the field of biofuel/bioenergy.

Key features

  • Provides unique information on biomass-based biofuels for fundamental and applied research
  • Outlines research advancements in the areas of bio-hydrogen, bioethanol, bio-methane and biorefineries
  • Includes emerging topics on biomass (including wastes) characterization and its uses as a resource for environmental bioremediation and bioenergy
  • Reviews enzyme engineering for biomass to bioproducts and biochemicals, lipids/bio-oil
  • Focuses on biological/ biochemical routes, as these options have the greatest potential to be the most cost-effective methods for biofuel/bioenergy production

Readership

Biotechnologists, (bio)chemical engineers, bio-enterpreneurs and biochemists

Table of contents

1. Biomass - a resource for environmental bioremediation and bioenergy

2. Renewable energy and the role of biofuels in the current world

3. Power the future with bioenergy from wastes

4. Databases for analysis of plant cell wall degrading related enzymes used in bioenergy researches

5. Impact of compositional analysis on biomass to biofuels production processes

6. Fungal bioenergy: recent progress and challenges

7. Bio-fuels and bioproducts produced through microbial conversion of biomass

8. Use of volatile solids from agricultural residues for energy production

9. Efficient technology of biofuel production from agricultural wastes

10. New advancements in cellulases for waste to wealth economy

11. Role of fungal lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LMPOs) in biofuel production from agricultural waste

12. Lignocellulose-based Chemical Products

13. The refinery concept: addressing the challenges of microalgal biodiesel production

14. Minerals and fatty acid methyl esters of seven wild inedible seeds of the Western Ghats

15. Non-ionic surfactants for Enhancement of lignocellulose enzymatic hydrolysis

16. Volatile fatty acids production during anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass

17. Microalgae as a source of sustainable biofuels

18. Biobased fats and oils from microalgae/cyanobacteria

19. Production of Biochar from biomass and waste

20. Strategies for optimization of microbial community structure in microbial fuel cells for advanced industrial wastewater treatment

21. Sustainable bioenergy production

22. Recent advancements in pretreatment technologies of biomass to produce bioenergy

23. Bioenergy technology for integrated production of poly-3hydroxybutyrate

24. Ionic liquid based pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass to enhance enzymatic bioconversion (One-step hydrolysis)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 23, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

VG

Vijai G. Gupta

Dr Vijai G. Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at MITS University of India. Currently he is working as Research Scientist at National University of Ireland in Galway. Dr. Gupta’s present work is focused on the development and optimization of novel Enzyme-based bioconversion systems for biorefining and bioenergy. He has been honored with several awards, including the prestigious Indian ICAR Senior Research Fellowship and Indian Young Scientist Award. He has submitted 33 new fungal nucleotide sequences and deposited 147 fungal strains in International databases. His work with Fusarium spp., Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Penicillium spp. and Trichoderma spp. is augmented by contributions to biotechnological development, molecular diversity, secondary metabolites and industrial applications Dr. Gupta is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Plant Pathology and a regional editorial board member of 8 other respected journals. He is the author of 40 journal articles and 27 book chapters. Gupta has also written and edited books and series from reputed publishers, including CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, USA; Springer, USA; Elsevier, USA; Nova Science Publisher, USA and LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

HT

Helen Treichel

Prof. Helen Treichel is a Research Productivity Scholar at level 1C in Environmental Sciences. She holds a degree in Food Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande (1999), a Master's and a Ph.D. in Food Engineering from the State University of Campinas (2001 and 2004, respectively). She is currently a Professor and Researcher at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS)-Campus Erechim. She works in undergraduate courses in Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Biological Sciences, and Agronomy and is a Permanent Professor in the Graduate Programs in Environmental Science and Technology (UFFS-Campus Erechim), Food Science and Technology (UFFS-Campus Laranjeiras do Sul) and Biotechnology and Biosciences (UFSC). She coordinates the Laboratory of Microbiology and Bioprocesses (LAMIBI) at UFFS (Erechim), working mainly on the following topics, design of experiments and statistical optimization of processes; production, purification, immobilization, and application of enzymes; use of microorganisms and enzymes in the treatment and/or recovery of effluents and residues; bioherbicides; biofuels. She acts as the leader of the Agroenergy research group.
Affiliations and expertise
Laboratory of Microbiology and Bioprocess, Environmental Science and Technology Department, Federal University of Fronteira Sul, Erechim, RS, Brazil

RK

Ramesh Chander Kuhad

Ramesh Chander Kuhad is a Distinguished Professor at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana; Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh and the Director, at the DPGITM, Gurugram, Haryana. His areas of research include plant biomass biotechnology, biorefineries for sustainable production of biofuels, and other bio-based products.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana; Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh; Director, DPGITM, Gurugram, Haryana

SR

Susana Rodriguez-Couto

Susana Rodríguez-Couto is a professor in biological water treatment at LUT University, Finland. She got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor (Biological Water Treatment), Department of Separation Science, LUT School of Engineering Science, LUT University, Finland

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