Green Fuels Technology (eBook)

History and global policy of biofuels.- Feedstock to biofuels.- Oil crops in the context of global biodiesel production.- An overview of production, properties and uses of biodiesel from vegetable oil.- Pretreatment processes for cellulosic ethanol production: processes integration and modelling for the utilization of lignocellulosics such as sugarcane straw.- Fungal enzymatic degradation of cellulose.- Principles and challenges involved in the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic materials at high total solids.- First generation bioethanol.- Second generation bioethanol.- Bioethanol from soybean molasses.- Bioethanol wastes: Economic valorization.- General assessment of the currently available biodiesel production technologies.- Biodiesel Production by Hydro-Esterification – Simulation Studies.- Biodiesel and bioethanol from algae.- Microbial oil for biodiesel production.- Biohydrogen.- Biogas: An evolutionary perspective in the Indian context.- Biobutanol : A renewable green alternative of liquid fuel from algae.- Biofuel from pyrolysis.- Life cycle assessment of biofuels.- Patents on biofuels.- Economic and environmental aspects of biofuels.