A-Z of Biorefinery

A-Z of Biorefinery: A Comprehensive View provides a comprehensive book that highlights and illustrates important topics relating to biorefineries, including associated theory, current and future research trends, available techniques and future challenges. This book will benefit a wide range of audiences, including students, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and those who are keen to explore more on biorefinery. Sections cover the availability of current technologies, constraints, market trends, recent system developments, and the concepts that enable modern biorefineries to utilize all kinds of biomass. This book is an essential resource for students, scientists, engineers and practitioners working in industry and academia.
- Covers the most important topics relating to biorefineries
- Provides related definitions, theories, overviews of methods, applications and important references
- Offers perspectives and concise reviews for each section
- Includes complete design case studies with tutorials

Section 1 Overview of A-Z of Biorefinery: A comprehensive view1. Overview of biorefinerySection 2 Biomass and Biobased Products 2. Whole crop feedstocks in biorefinery: A common classification 3. Lignocellulosic biomass and its potential derivative products4. Algal based feedstocks5. Waste and residues streams as feedstocks 6. Bioresources and biofuels - From classical to perspectives and trends7. Key enzimes in biorefinery8. Technology toward biochemical precursors and bioplastic production9. Fine specialty chemicals for food and feed applicationsSection 3 Conversion of biomass to high-value products 10. Gasification/pyrolysis/torrefaction11. Thermal, hydrothermal liquefaction, and electromagnetic processes for biomass conversion12. Progress and challenges for microbial fermentation processes within the biorefinery context13. Consolidated bioprocessing for ethanol and butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: Recent advances in strain and process engineeringSection 4 Downstream recovery and separation14. Overview of downstream product recovery technology in biorefinery15. Key unit operations in biorefinery processesSection 5 Process creation, design and analysis 16. Sustainable biorefinery process synthesis, design, and simulation: Systematic computer aided methods and tools17. Consequential life cycle assessment: Evaluating the environmental impact of dairy manure treatment using thermochemical conversion technologiesSection 6 Tools and complete case studies18. Complete design case study for pulp and paper industry19. Conceptual design of sugarcane biorefinery upgrading molasses to value-added chemicals20. Superstructure optimization of microalgal biorefinery producing biodiesel21. Perspectives, challenges and future directions