Plant Biomass Conversion (eBook)

Elizabeth Hood, Ph.D, is a Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University. Peter Nelson is a principal in BioDimensions, providing services for startup companies developing green technology. Randy Powell, Ph.D, is the president of Powell Consulting, LLC, a construction consulting firm promoting biofuel and bioproducts.

Contributors.

Preface.

1 The Bioeconomy: A New Era of Products Derived from RenewablePlant-Based Feedstocks (Peter Nelson, Elizabeth Hood, andRandall Powell).

2 Agricultural Residues (James Hettenhaus).

3 Growing Systems for Traditional and New Forest-BasedMaterials (Randall Rousseau, Janet Hawkes, Shijie Liu, andTom Amidon).

4 Dedicated Herbaceous Energy Crops (Keat (Thomas) Teoh,Shivakumar Pattada Devaiah, Deborah Vicuna Requesens, and ElizabethE. Hood).

5 Municipal Solid Waste as a Biomass Feedstock (David J.Webster).

6 Water Sustainability in Biomass CroppingSystems (Jennifer L. Bouldin and Rodney E. Wright).

7 Soil Sustainability Issues in Energy CropProduction (V. Steven Green).

8 Fermentation Organisms for 5-and 6-Carbon Sugars (NicholasDufour, Jeffrey Swana, and Reeta P. Rao).

9 Pretreatment Options (Bradley A. Saville).

10 Enzyme Production Systems for Biomass Conversion (JohnA. Howard, Zivko Nikolov, and Elizabeth E. Hood).

11 Fermentation-Based Biofuels (Randy Kramer and HeleneBelanger).

12 Biobased Chemicals and Polymers (Randall W. Powell,Clare Elton, Ross Prestidge, and Helene Belanger).

13 Carbon Offset Potential of Biomass-BasedEnergy (Gauri-Shankar Guha).

14 Biofuel Economics (Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer, BradHolmes, Blake A. Simmons, and Harvey W. Blanch).

Index.

"Overall it gives very good insights on biomass feedstocks for all
uses of biomass as well as fermentation technologies mainly for
biofuels." (Encyclopedia of Industrial Biotechnology, 30 August
2011)