Microbial Technologies in Advanced Biofuels Production

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hallenbeck, Patrick C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Renewable energy resources.; Immunology.; Biochemistry.; Microbiology.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Renewable and Green Energy.

Concerns over dwindling fossil fuel reserves and impending climate changes have focused attention worldwide on the need to discover alternative, sustainable energy sources and fuels. Biofuels, already produced on a massive industrial scale, are seen as one answer to these problems. However, very rea...

Table of Contents:

• Biofuels, the larger context
• Hydrogen production: light driven processes; cyanobacteria
• Hydrogen production: light driven processes; green algae
• Hydrogen production : photofermentation
• Hydrogen production : dark processes
• Microbial Electrolysis: Novel Biotechnology for Hydrogen Production from Biomass
• Combined Processes for maximum substrate conversion
• Syntrophic Degradation of Fatty Acids by Methanogenic Communities
• Anaerobic digestion as an effective biofuel production technology
• Advanced Bioethanol Production
• Novel strategies for production of medium and high chain length alcohols
• Microbial Production of Fatty-Acid Based Biofuels
• Biodiesel production by microalgae
• Algae Oil
• The Future of Biofuels, Biofuels of the Future.