A-Z of Biorefinery

A-Z of Biorefinery: A Comprehensive View provides a comprehensive book that highlights and illustrates important topics relating to biorefineries, including associated theory, current and future research trends, available techniques and future challenges. This book will benefit a wide range of audiences, including students, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and those who are keen to explore more on biorefinery. Sections cover the availability of current technologies, constraints, market trends, recent system developments, and the concepts that enable modern biorefineries to utilize all kinds of biomass. This book is an essential resource for students, scientists, engineers and practitioners working in industry and academia.

Section 1 Overview of A-Z of Biorefinery: A comprehensive view 1. Overview of biorefinery Section 2 Biomass and Biobased Products 2. Whole crop feedstocks in biorefinery: A common classification  3. Lignocellulosic biomass and its potential derivative products 4. Algal based feedstocks 5. Waste and residues streams as feedstocks  6. Bioresources and biofuels - From classical to perspectives and trends 7. Key enzimes in biorefinery 8. Technology toward biochemical precursors and bioplastic production 9. Fine specialty chemicals for food and feed applications Section 3 Conversion of biomass to high-value products  10. Gasification/pyrolysis/torrefaction 11. Thermal, hydrothermal liquefaction, and electromagnetic processes for biomass conversion 12. Progress and challenges for microbial fermentation processes within the biorefinery context 13. Consolidated bioprocessing for ethanol and butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: Recent advances in strain and process engineering Section 4 Downstream recovery and separation 14. Overview of downstream product recovery technology in biorefinery 15. Key unit operations in biorefinery processes Section 5 Process creation, design and analysis 16. Sustainable biorefinery process synthesis, design, and simulation: Systematic computer aided methods and tools 17. Consequential life cycle assessment: Evaluating the environmental impact of dairy manure treatment using thermochemical conversion technologies Section 6 Tools and complete case studies 18. Complete design case study for pulp and paper industry 19. Conceptual design of sugarcane biorefinery upgrading molasses to value-added chemicals 20. Superstructure optimization of microalgal biorefinery producing biodiesel 21. Perspectives, challenges and future directions