Advances in Feedstock Conversion Technologies for Alternative Fuels and Bioproducts: New Technologies, Challenges and Opportunities

Advances in Feedstock Conversion Technologies for Alternative Fuels and Bioproducts: New Technologies, Challenges and Opportunities highlights the novel applications of, and new methodologies for, the advancement of biological, biochemical, thermochemical and chemical conversion systems that are required for biofuels production. The book addresses the environmental impact of value added bio-products and agricultural modernization, along with the risk assessment of industrial scaling. The book also stresses the urgency in finding creative, efficient and sustainable solutions for environmentally conscious biofuels, while underlining pertinent technical, environmental, economic, regulatory and social issues.

Users will find a basis for technology assessments, current research capability, progress, and advances, as well as the challenges associated with biofuels at an industrial scale, with insights towards forthcoming developments in the industry.

Presents a thorough overview of new discoveries in biofuels research and the inherent challenges associated with scale-upHighlights the novel applications and advancements for biological, biochemical, thermochemical and chemical conversion systems that are required for biofuels productionEvaluates risk management concerns, addressing the environmental impact of value added bio-products and agricultural modernization, and the risk assessment of industrial scaling

1. Micro-scale and macro-scale modelling of microalgae cultivation in photobioreactor: A review and perspective
2. Cell wall disruption: a critical up-stream process for biofuel production
3. Enhancing carbohydrate productivity in photosynthetic microorganism production: A comparison between cyanobacteria and microalgae and the effect of cultivation systems
4. Production of ethanol from brown algae
5. Approaches to improve the quality of microalgae biodiesel: challenges and future prospects
6. Biosequestration of carbon dioxide from flue gases by algae
7. Using Microalgae for treating Wastewater 
8. Jerusalem artichoke: A promising feedstock for bioethanol production
9. Recent advances and future prospective of biogas production
10. Recent Advances in lipid extraction for Biodiesel production
11. Synthesis of catalyst support from waste biomass for impregnation of catalysts in biofuel production
12. Heterogeneous Catalytic Conversion of Rapeseed Oil to Methyl Esters: Optimization and Kinetic Study
13. Fatty acid profiling of biofuels produced from microalgae, vegetable oil, and waste vegetable oil
14. The challenges to produce an oxidation stable and an acceptable cloud point biodiesel from lipid sources
15. Supercritical Extraction of Value-Added Compounds from Empty Fruit Bunch: An Optimization Study by Response Surface Methodology
16. Progress in anaerobic digestion of manures
17. Thermochemical processes aimed at the energy valorization of cow manure from feedlots
18. Environmental concerns on the production of Value Added Bio-products from Residual Renewable Sources 
19. LCA of First-, Second- generation and Micro-algae Biofuels