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Title:
Biofuels from agricultural wastes and byproducts
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010
Physical Description:
xii, 262 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780813802527

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Summary

Summary

Traditional agriculture and emerging biofuels technology produce a number of wastes and by-products, ranging from corn fiber and glycerin to animal manure, that have the potential to serve as the basis for additional sources of bioenergy that includes both liquid biofuels and biogas.

Biofuels from Agricultural Wastes and Byproducts is the first book to focus solely on the production of biofuels primarily from agricultural waste and by-products. The book is divided roughly into two sections. The first section looks at liquid biofuel production from agricultural byproducts, densification of agricultural residues, and the delivery from farm to processing plant of waste and byproducts for use in biofuel production. The second section focuses on anaerobic digestion of food and animal wastes, microbial diversity, molecular and biochemical aspects of methanogensis.

Together these sections solidify Biofuels from Agricultural Wastes and Byproducts as a definitive source of information on the use of agricultural waste and by-products in biofuel production.


Author Notes

Hans Blaschek is Professor of Food Microbiology and Assistant Dean at teh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Thaddeus Ezeji is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Biotechnology and Bioenergy Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jürgen Scheffran is Professor at the Institute for Geography and at the KlimaCampus of Hamburg University in Germany.


Table of Contents

Preface
About the Editors
Contributors
1 Biofuels from Agricultural Wastes and Byproducts: An IntroductionHans P. Blaschek and Thaddeus C. Ezeji and Jürgen Scheffran
2 Production of Liquid Biofuels from Biomass: Emerging TechnologiesNasib Qureshi and Stephen Hughes and Thaddeus C. Ezeji
3 Butanol Production from Lignocellulosic BiomassThaddeus C. Ezeji and Hans P. Blaschek
4 Practical Aspects of Methane Production from Agricultural WastesLargus T. Angenent and Norman R. Scott
5 Conversion of Agricultural Residues to Bioethanol: The Roles of Cellulases and CellulosomesEdward A. Bayer and Raphael Lamed and Bryan A. White and Shi-You Ding and Michael E. Himmel
6 Fuel and Chemical Production from Glycerol, a Biodiesel Waste ProductSyed Shams Yazdani and Anu Jose Mattam and Ramon Gonzalez
7 Farm-Gate to Plant-Gate Delivery of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks from Plant Biomass for Biofuel ProductionKlein E. Ileleji and Shahab Sokhansanj and John S. Cundiff
8 Conversion of Existing Dry-Mill Ethanol Operations to BiorefineriesTimothy C. Lindsey
9 Cellulosic Ethanol from Agricultural ResiduesBin Yang and Yanpin Lu and Charles E. Wyman
10 Hydrothermal Liquefaction to Convert Biomass into Crude OilYuanhui Zhang
11 Detoxification of Lignocellulosic HydrolysatesBin Wang and Hao Feng
Index.
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