Bioenergy Systems for the Future: Prospects for Biofuels and Biohydrogen

Bioenergy Systems for the Future: Prospects for Biofuels and Biohydrogen examines the current advances in biomass conversion technologies for biofuels and biohydrogen production, including their advantages and challenges for real-world application and industrial-scale implementation.

In its first part, the book explores the use of lignocellulosic biomass and agricultural wastes as feedstock, also addressing biomass conversion into biofuels, such as bioethanol, biodiesel, bio-methane, and bio-gasoline. The chapters in Part II cover several different pathways for hydrogen production, from biomass, including bioethanol and bio-methane reforming and syngas conversion. They also include a comparison between the most recent conversion technologies and conventional approaches for hydrogen production.

Part III presents the status of advanced bioenergy technologies, such as applications of nanotechnology and the use of bio-alcohol in low-temperature fuel cells. The role of advanced bioenergy in a future bioeconomy and the integration of these technologies into existing systems are also discussed, providing a comprehensive, application-oriented overview that is ideal for engineering professionals, researchers, and graduate students involved in bioenergy.

Explores the most recent technologies for advanced liquid and gaseous biofuels production, along with their advantages and challengesPresents real-life application of conversion technologies and their integration in existing systemsIncludes the most promising pathways for sustainable hydrogen production for energy applications

Biomass to bioenergy 1. Biomass pretreatment and transformation from agricultural wastes 2. Efficient transformation of non-food agricultural lignocelluloses 3. Production of bio-alcohol and bio-methane 4. Light olefins/biogasoline production from biomass 5. Bioenergy from stillage anaerobic digestion to enhance the energy balance ratio of ethanol production

Hydrogen production 6. Thermodynamic analysis of ethanol reforming for hydrogen production 7. Catalysts for conversion of synthesis gas 8. Distributed H2 production from bio-alcohols and bio-methane in conventional steam reforming units 9. H2 production from bio-alchools and bio-methane steam reforming in conventional and membrane reactors 10. Formation of hydrogen rich gas via conversion of lignocellulosic biomass and its decomposition products 11. Advantages and diadvantages of recent biomass conversion technologies compared to conventional approaches for hydrogen production

Bioenergy technology aspects/status 12. Nanocomposites for ‘‘Nano Green Energy’’ Applications 13. Integration of membrane technologies into conventional existing systems in the food industry 14. Integration of microalgae into an existing biofuel industry 15. Low-temperature fuel cell operated with bio-alcohol fuels 16. Syngas cleaning system for power generation 17. Bioenergy production from second and third generation feedstocks