Conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels is an active research study and development location as trends transfer to change traditional fossil fuels with eco-friendly resources. By integrating processing techniques with ultrasound and microwave irradiation into biorefineries, the time-scale of many operations can be significantly decreased while the efficiency of the responses can be extremely increased so that process surge can be attained. “Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ultrasound” and “Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Microwave” are two independent volumes in the Biofuels and Biorefineries series that take various, however complementary techniques for the pretreatment and chemical transformation of biomass into chemicals and biofuels. The volume “Ultrasound” supplies present research advances and prospects in mechanistic concepts of acoustic cavitation in sonochemistry, physical and chemical mechanisms in biofuel synthesis, reactor style for transesterification and esterification responses, lipid extraction from algal biomass, microalgae extraction, biodiesel and bioethanol synthesis, practical innovations and systems, pretreatment of biomass waste sources consisting of lignocellulosic products, manures and sludges for biogas production, vibration-assisted pelleting, combined chemical-mechanical methods, valorization of starch-based wastes and techno-economic approach. Each of the 12 chapters has actually been peer-reviewed and edited to improve both the quality of the text and the scope and coverage of the topics. Both volumes “Ultrasound” and “Microwave” are recommendations developed for students, scientists, academicians and industrialists in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering and include initial chapters to highlight present concepts of the basic technologies and their application. Dr. Zhen Fang is Professor in Bioenergy, Leader and founder of biomass group, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and is also accessory Teacher of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Richard L Smith, Jr. is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Environmental Researches, Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Innovation, Tohoku University, Japan. Dr. Xinhua Qi is Professor of Environmental Science, Nankai University, China.
Comments
Post a Comment