Biorefineries: Integrated Biochemical Processes for Liquid Biofuels

Biorefineries outlines the processes and steps to successfully scale up production of two types of biofuels, butanol and ethanol, from cellulosic residues for commercial purposes. It covers practical topics, including biomass availability, pretreatment, fermentation, and water recycling, as well as policy and economic factors. This reflects the unique expertise of the editor team, whose backgrounds range from wood and herbaceous feedstocks to process economics and industrial expertise. The strategies presented in this book help readers to design integrated and efficient processes to reduce the cost of production and achieve an economically viable end product

Outlines the economic benefits of designing a single operational process.Includes all currently available processes on pretreatment, fermentation and recoveryCovers all pretreatment, fermentation, and product recovery optionsFocuses on biofuels but acts as a stepping stone to develop cost-efficient processes for an array of commodity chemicals

PART I CELLULOSIC BIOMASS PROCESSING & BIOREFINERY ROAD MAP

CHAPTER 1 An Overview of Existing Individual Unit Operations

CHAPTER 2 Biomass for Biorefining: Resources, Allocation, Utilization, and Policies

CHAPTER 3 Biorefinery Roadmaps

CHAPTER 4 Integration of (Hemi)-Cellulosic Biofuels Technologies with Chemical Pulp Production

CHAPTER 5 Integrated Processes for Product Recovery

PART II CELLULOSIC ETHANOL

CHAPTER 6 Development of Growth-Arrested Bioprocesses with Corynebacterium glutamicum for Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Complex Sugar Mixtures

CHAPTER 7 Consolidated Bioprocessing for Ethanol Production

CHAPTER 8 Integration of Ethanol Fermentation with Second Generation Biofuels Technologies

PART III CELLULOSIC BUTANOL

CHAPTER 9 Mixed Sugar Fermentation by Clostridia and Metabolic Engineering for Butanol Production

CHAPTER 10 Integrated Bioprocessing and Simultaneous Product Recovery for Butanol Production

CHAPTER 11 Integrated Production of Butanol from Glycerol

PART IV PROCESS ECONOMICS & FARM-BASED BIOREFINERY

CHAPTER 12 Process Economics of Renewable Biorefineries: Butanol and Ethanol Production in Integrated Bioprocesses from Lignocellulosics and Other Industrial By-Products

CHAPTER 13 Integrated Farm-Based Biorefinery