Progressive thermochemical biorefining technologies

Considering the deleterious impacts of fossil fuels on the environmental and natural ecosystems, it has become imperative to make a paradigm shift toward renewable fuels, chemicals, and materials. The exhaustive everyday usage of fossil fuels and processed petrochemical products are the leading causes for the increase in greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, climate changes, acid rain, ozone layer depletion, pollution of air, water, and soil as well as for the accumulation of nonbiodegradable materials in the soil and oceans. On the contrary, biofuels, biochemicals, and biomaterials derived from renewable wastes such as nonedible plant biomass (e.g., agricultural and forestry biomass), energy crops, microalgae, municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, and other biogenic residues seem to be carbon neutral. Therefore, the global interest in biorefining technologies, especially thermochemical and biological conversion processes, is gaining momentum in academic and industrial perspectives. Progressive Thermochemical Biorefining Technologies offers all-inclusive coverage of the most crucial topics as follows: State-of-the-art information on the production and utilization of biofuels through thermochemical biorefining technologies Conversion of waste biomass through pyrolysis, liquefaction, torrefaction, carbonization, gasification, reforming, and other clean technologies Waste-to-energy/chemical generation Fuel upgrading technologies Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle assessment of biorefining processes Specifically designed to be instantly applicable, this volume serves as a reference book for undergraduate and graduate students, scientific investigators, and research scholars working in the areas relating to energy and fuels.

Thermochemical and biological conversion of biomass into biofuels and biochemicals / Munusamy Subathra, Narasiman Nirmala, Shanmuganantham Selvanantham Dawn, Sivaprasad Shyam, Kannappan Panchamoorthy Gopinath and Jayaseelan Arun -- Solid and liquid biofuels from waste and biomass : production, characterization and combustion / Fang-Hsien Wu, Chao-Wei Huang, Yueh-Heng Li, Van-Huy Nguyen, Guan-Bang Chen -- Conversion of municipal solid waste to biofuels / Ravi Patel, Sonil Nanda, Ajay K. Dalai -- Conversion of plastic waste to fuels and chemicals / Ravi Patel, Sonil Nanda, Ajay K. Dalai -- Torrefied solids : a material border lining biomass and biochar / Tumpa R. Sarker, Sonil Nanda, Ramin Azargohar, Venkatesh Meda, Ajay K. Dalai -- Pelletization of torrefied biomass using binders / Jennifer Anno-Kusi, Tumpa R. Sarker, Sonil Nanda, Ajay K. Dalai -- Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to syngas through co-gasification approach / Minhaj Uddin Monir, Azrina Abd Aziz, Fatema Khatun, Dai-Viet N. Vo, Nadzirah Mohd Mokhtar -- Glycerol : a promising green source for chemicals and fuels / Thanh Khoa Phung, Khanh B. Vu, Quynh-Thy Song Nguyen, Khoa Dang Tong, Vy Anh Tran, Dai-Viet N. Vo, Hong D…