Fundamentals of Biofuels Engineering and Technology

• Main Author: De Blasio, Cataldo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Renewable energy resources.; Bioorganic chemistry.; Chromatography.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Bioorganic Chemistry.

This book explores the use of biomass as an energy source and its application in energy conversion technologies. Focusing on the challenges of, and technologies related to, biomass conversion, the book is divided into three parts. The first part underlines the fundamental concepts that form the basi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Light Harvesting and Biomass Generation.-Work From Light
• Characteristics of Wooden Biomass
• Analyses Conducted on Biomass
• Gas Chromatography
• Quantitative Content Determination in Chromatography
• Integrated Biorefinery Concepts
• Electronegativity and Microbial Catalysis
• Main Reactors Configurations
• Enzyme Kinetics
• Microbial Fermentation
• Biofuels Processes
• Biodiesel
• Analyses Related to Biodiesel
• Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis to Biofuels.