Main description:

Sustainable Biotechnology; Sources of Renewable Energy draws on the vast body of knowledge about renewable resources for biofuel research, with the aim to bridge the technology gap and focus on critical aspects of lignocellulosic biomolecules and the respective mechanisms regulating their bioconversion to liquid fuels and other value-added products. This book is a collection of outstanding research reports and reviews elucidating several broad-ranging areas of progress and challenges in the utilization of sustainable resources of renewable energy, especially in biofuels.

Contents:

Applications of Biotechnology for the Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources
Om V. Singh and Steven P. Harvey
Chapter 1
Heat and mass transport in processing of lignocellulosic biomass for fuels and chemicals
Sridhar Viamajala, Bryon S. Donohoe, Stephen R. Decker, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael J. Selig, Michael E. Himmel, and Melvin P. Tucker Chapter 2
Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass
Xiaorong Wu, James McLaren, Ron Madl and Donghai Wang Chapter 3
Environmentally Sustainable Biofuels - The Case for Biodiesel, Biobutanol and Cellulosic Ethanol
Palligarnai T. Vasudevan, Michael D. Gagnon and Michael S. Briggs Chapter 4
Biotechnological Applications of Hemicellulosic Derived Sugars: State-of-the-art
Anuj K. Chandel, Om V. Singh and L.Venkateswar Rao Chapter 5
Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER)
James J. Valdes and Jerry B. Warner Chapter 6
Production of Methane Biogas as Fuel through Anaerobic Digestion
Zhongtang Yu and Floyd L. Schanbacher Chapter 7
Waste to renewable energy: a sustainable and green approach towards production of biohydrogen by acidogenic fermentation
S. Venkata Mohan Chapter 8
Bacterial communities in various conditions of the composting reactor revealed by 16S rDNA clone analysis and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis
Keiko Watanabe, Norio Nagao, Tatsuki Toda and Norio Kurosawa Chapter 9
Perspectives on Bioenergy and Biofuels
Elinor L. Scott, A. Maarten J. Kootstra and Johan P.M. Sanders Chapter 10
Perspectives on Chemicals from Renewable Resources
Elinor L. Scott, Johan P.M. Sanders and Alexander Steinbuchel Chapter 11
Microbial Lactic Acid Production from Renewable Resources
Yebo Li and Fengjie Cui Chapter 12
Microbial production of potent phenolic-antioxidants through solid state fermentation
SilviaMartins, Diego Mercado, Marco Mata-Gomez, Luis Rodriguez, Antonio Aguilera-Carbo, Raul Rodriguez and Cristobal N. Aguilar Chapter 13
Photoautotrophic production of astaxanthin by the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis
Esperanza Del Rio, F. Gabriel Acien and Miguel G. Guerrero Chapter 14
Enzymatic Synthesis of Heparin
Renpeng Liu and Jian Liu Chapter 15
Extremophiles: Sustainable resource of natural compounds-Extremolytes
Raj Kumar, Dev Dutt Patel, Deen Dayal Bansal, Saurabh Mishra, Anis Mohammed, Rajesh Arora, Ashok Sharma, R.K. Sharma and Rajendra Prasad Tripathi