Biofuels from Agricultural Wastes and Byproducts

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

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