Microbial Biofuel

Shashi Kant Bhatia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, and has more than ten years’ experience in biowastes valorization into bioenergy, biochemicals, and biomaterials. He holds an MSc and a PhD in biotechnology at Himachal Pradesh University (India). Dr. Bhatia has worked as a Brain Pool Post Doc Fellow at Konkuk University (2014–2016) and has contributed extensively to the industrial press and served as an editorial board member of Sustainability and Energies journal and associate editor of Frontier of Microbiology, Microbial Cell Factories, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Carbohydrate Technology and Applications, 3 Biotech, and PLOS One journals. Parmjit S. Panesar is working as Professor and Dean (Planning and Development), Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology Longowal, Punjab, India. Professor Panesar has also worked as Dean (Research and Consultancy), and Head, Department of Food Engineering & Technology, SLIET Longowal, India. His research is focused in the area of Food Biotechnology especially bioprocessing of food industry by-products, food enzymes, prebiotics (lactulose, GOS), biopigments etc. In 2005, he has been awarded BOYSCAST (Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology) fellowship by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, to carry out advance research at Chembiotech labs, University of Birmingham Research Park, UK. Ranjit Gurav is an Associate Professor at UPES Dehradun, India. He received his PhD in Biotechnology in 2013 and has since conducted extensive research for a decade in various countries, including the USA, South Korea, India, and China. Throughout his career, he has held roles such as Associate Professor, Research Professor, Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Research Associate, and Young Scientist, contributing significantly to advancements in his field. His research primarily focuses on harnessing agriculture and food industry waste biomass, and by-products to produce bioelectricity, polyhydroxyalkanoates, biodiesel, exopolysaccharides, and biohydrogen.

Contents

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction to microbial biofuels: Nature's solution to energy sustainability

Shashi Kant Bhatia, Parmjit S. Panesar and Ranjit Gurav

Chapter 2: Bioalcohol production: Fermenting nature's bounty into liquid gold

Naimi Sirjohn, Ravi Kant Bhatia and Pradeep Kumar

Chapter 3: Biodiesel production: Microbial alchemy for sustainable transportation

Falak Shaheen, Rohit Topkar, Ranjit Gurav, Yung-Hun Yang, Jyoti Jadhav and Rahul Jadhav

Chapter 4: Biohydrogen production: Harnessing microbes for clean energy generation

Rohit Topkar, Anmol Patil, Priyanka Magadum, Sarita Wadmare, Ranjit Gurav, Sangchul Hwang, Jyoti Jadhav and Rahul Jadhav

Chapter 5: Biomethane production: From organic waste to green gas

Ying Xu and Chen Zhang

Chapter 6: Biohythane production: Merging biohydrogen and biomethane for a sustainable future

Paramjeet Dhull, Neha Saini, Sugandhi and Sachin Kumar

Chapter 7: Bioelectricity generation: Powering the future with microbial fuel cells

Rajee Olaganathan

Chapter 8: Drop-in fuel production: Transforming biomass into next-generation fuels

Eunice O. Babatunde, Yura Kim and Sujata Mandal

Chapter 9: Bioelectricity generation: Powering the future with microbial fuel cells

Akansha Mohanty, Siddhika Ajmera, Yash Misra, Ranjeet Kumar Mishra, D. Jaya, Prasanna Kumar and Ravi Sankannavar

Chapter 10: Bio-oil production: Unlocking the liquid fuel potential of biomass

Ahmad Nawaz, Hayat Ali Haddad, Ayah Stif and Shaikh Abdur Razzak