Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Structure of the bioenergy business: Characteristics of biofuels and renewable fuel
  • The global demand for biofuels: technologies, markets and policies
  • Biofuel demand realization
  • Advanced biorefineries for the production of fuel ethanol
  • Part II: Diesel from biomass: Biomass liquefaction and gasification
  • Diesel from syngas
  • Biodiesel from vegetable oils
  • Biofuels from microalgae and seaweeds
  • Part III: Ethanol and butanol: Improvements in corn to ethanol production technology using saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Advanced technologies for biomass hydrolysis and saccharification using novel enzymes
  • Mass balances and analytical methods for biomass pretreatment experiments
  • Biomass conversion inhibitors and in situ detoxification
  • Fuel ethanol production from lignocellulosic raw materials using recombinant yeasts
  • Conversion of biomass to ethanol by other organisms
  • Advanced fermentation technologies
  • Advanced product recovery technologies
  • Clostridia and process engineering for energy generation
  • Part IV: Hydrogen, methane, and methanol: Hydrogen generation by microbial cultures
  • Engineering photosynthesis for H2 production from H2O: cyanobacteria as design organisms
  • Production and utilization of methane biogas as renewable fuel
  • Methanol production and utilization
  • Part V: Perspectives: Enhancing primary raw materials for biofuels
  • Axes of development in chemical and process engineering for converting biomass to energy