Handbook of Biofuels Production

Rafael Luque (PhD 2005, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain) has significant experience in biomass and waste valorization practices to materials, fuels, and chemicals as well as nanoscale chemistry, green chemistry and (photo)catalysis (600+ publications, h-index 92, >39,000 citations, 7 patents, 10 edited books). He is Editor-in-chief of Molecular Catalysis (Elsevier) and has been named 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics). Carol Lin received her BEng degree in Chemicals & Material Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and her Ph.D. from The University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Lin is currently Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong. She is internationally known for her work on bioconversion of agricultural, food and industrial residues for production of chemicals, materials and fuels through green and sustainable chemistry. Her current research interests include cultivation of anaerobic human gut microbial consortia in cellulose hydrogel-based immobilized bioreactors, waste and biomass valorisation. Dr. Lin leads a team of researchers with a current grant portfolio of over HK$18M and on-going collaborations with numerous companies. She has given numerous Keynote and Plenary speeches at major international conferences. In 2016 and 2018, her research team won the Gold Medal at the Geneva Invention Exhibition. In 2017, she received The President’s Awards, CityU. Karen Wilson is Professor of Catalysis in the School of Science at RMIT University and was previously Chair of Catalysis and Research Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute at Aston University (2013-17), where she also held a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Johnson Matthey. She holds a BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and MSc in heterogeneous catalysis from the University of Liverpool and has held academic positions at the University of York and Cardiff University. Her research interests lie in the design of tunable porous materials for sustainable biofuels and chemicals production from renewable resources. She is currently Associate Editor of the academic journals Sustainable Energy & Fuels, and Energy & Environmental Materials. Chenyu Du is a Reader in Chemical Engineering in the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Huddersfield. His BEng was awarded in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. He completed his PhD in the department of Chemical Engineering in Tsinghua University. He held a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of Manchester working on a platform chemical production from sustainable raw materials. Following this he joined a research and development company in London contributing to the development of the 2nd generation of biofuel. In 2010 he was appointed as lecturer in the University of Nottingham. He has been involved in research pertaining to the Lignocellosic Conversion to Ethanol programme. He was responsible for developing and directing a new MSc course on Sustainable Bioenergy. His research interests focus on bioenergy, fermentation, metabolic engineering, bioprocess development and simulation. He has generated research income over £17 million as PI or Co-I.

Part One: Key Issues and Assessment of Biofuels Production 1. Introduction: An Overview of Biofuels and Production Technologies 2. Multiple Objectives Policy for Biofuels Production: Environmental, Socio-Economic and Regulatory Issues 3. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Biofuels 4. Biofuels: Technology, Economics, And Policy Issues 5. Feedstocks and Challenges to Biofuel Development

Part Two: Biofuels from Chemical and Biochemical Conversion Processes and Technologies 6. Production of Biofuel Via Catalytic Upgrading and Refining of Sustainable Oleagineous Feedstocks 7. Biotechnological Production of Biofuels 8. Biodiesel Production from Microbial Oil Using Oleagineous Microorganisms 9. Biochemical Production of Bioalcohols 10. Production of Biogas Via Anaerobic Digestion 11. Lignocellulose Biorefinery Advances the Liquid Biofuels Platform 12. Chemical Routes for The Conversion Of Cellulosic Platform Molecules Into High-Energy-Density Biofuels

Part Three: Biofuels from Thermal and Thermo-Chemical Conversion Processes And Technologies 13. Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis for Improved Liquid Quality 14. Production of Bio-Syngas and Biohydrogen Via Gasification 15. Production of Biofuels Via Hydrothermal Conversion 16. Production of Biofuels Via Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: Biomass-To-Liquids

Part Four: Integrated Production and Application of Biofuels 17. Integrated Biorefinery Production of Biofuels and Coproduction Of High Value Products 18. Microalgae for Biofuels: A Prospective Feedstock 19. Utilisation of Biofuels in Diesel Engines 20. Power to X Technologies & CO2 Utilisation