Advances in 2nd Generation of Bioethanol Production
- 1st Edition - January 13, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editor: Xin Lu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 8 6 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 8 6 3 - 7
Advances in 2nd Generation of Bioethanol Production presents a comprehensive overview of technologies and strategies for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. This includ… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in 2nd Generation of Bioethanol Production presents a comprehensive overview of technologies and strategies for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. This includes issues like sustainable production, environmental and economic benefits, and the main hurdles for upscaling and achieving commercial viability. The book assesses the current biomass conversion technologies, their readiness level for commercial production, and applications of bioethanol in bioenergy and chemical feedstock. The essential conversion process of 2nd generation biofuels, including feedstock composition and pretreatment, is then broken down, with special focus on advantages and pitfalls of each feedstock and process. It also explores the advances and challenges of bioprocessing, hydrolysis technologies and simultaneous fermentation of pentose and hexose. Finally, it presents the current status and bottlenecks for industrial production of bioethanol, as well as its future prospects.
Its interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon plant biology, chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, and genetics, makes Advances in 2nd Generation of Bioethanol Production a must-have reference for researchers in academia and industry R&D. It allows them to compare challenges and opportunities of new technologies and identify the gaps where new technology is needed. Practitioners in the industry also benefit from the information on working principles, design and control of the bioethanol production process, highlighting areas where technology innovation and investment should be placed. Graduate students and researchers newly entered in this field find here a key-resource to thoroughly understand the process as well as the fundamentals of bioethanol and bioproducts production from lignocellulosic biomass.
- Presents fundamentals and state-of-the-art of available pathways for bioethanol and bioproducts production from lignocellulosic biomass
- Discusses key-challenges for large scale production of bioethanol, such as pretreatment and hydrolysis
- Covers the specificities of various feedstocks and processes, the role of microorganisms in fermentation, saccharification limitations and challenges in the C5 and C6 fermentation
Researchers in academia and industry, PhD students and practitioners in the biofuels, bioenergy and bioproducts sectors
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. General introduction to biofuels and bioethanol
- 1.1. Historical development of biofuels
- 1.2. Advantages and development of second-generation bioethanol
- 1.3. The technical problems of biofuels and bioethanol
- Chapter 2. The need for biofuels in the context of energy consumption
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Nonrenewable energy
- 2.3. Renewable energy
- 2.4. Development and utilization of biomass energy in various countries
- Chapter 3. More than biofuels: use ethanol as chemical feedstock
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Chemicals derived from bioethanol
- 3.3. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Essential process and key barriers for converting plant biomass into biofuels
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Biomass resources for second-generation biofuels
- 4.3. Pretreatment: breaking down stubborn plant fibers
- 4.4. Hydrolysis
- 4.5. Biofuel fermentation
- 4.6. Purification
- 4.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Composition of plant biomass and its impact on pretreatment
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Composition, properties, and characteristics of plant biomass
- 5.3. The impact of plant biomass on pretreatment
- 5.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Pretreatment: Toward effectiveness and sustainability
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Pretreatment methods
- 6.3. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Tiny bugs play big role: Microorganisms’ contribution to biofuel production
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Microorganism as catalytic enzyme producer
- 7.3. Cell factory for biofuels
- 7.4. Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for biofuel production
- 7.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Overcome saccharification barrier: Advances in hydrolysis technology
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Classification of saccharification and hydrolysis
- 8.3. Cellulolytic enzymes
- 8.4. Factors affecting enzymatic hydrolysis
- 8.5. Enhance enzyme yield
- 8.6. Improve enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency
- 8.7. Enhance the economics of enzymatic hydrolysis
- 8.8. Future perspective
- Chapter 9. Strategies on simultaneous fermentation of pentose and hexose to bioethanol
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Metabolic pathways of pentose sugars and carbon catabolite repression
- 9.3. Exploration and improvement of native cofermenting microbes to ethanol production
- 9.4. Engineering of industrial microbes for cofermenting mixed sugars to ethanol production
- 9.5. Coculture engineering
- 9.6. Development of fermentation strategy and techniques
- 9.7. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 10. Industrial bioethanol production: status and bottlenecks
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Bioethanol production and consumption worldwide
- 10.3. First-generation bioethanol
- 10.4. Second-generation bioethanol
- 10.5. Third-generation bioethanol
- 10.6. Conclusions
- Chapter 11. Ending fossil fuels addiction: Prospects for biofuels
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Global development and application of biofuels
- 11.3. Prospects for biofuels
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 13, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 266
- No. of pages (eBook): 266
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128188620
- eBook ISBN: 9780128188637
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Xin Lu
Xin Lu is currently professor, Dean of College of Food Science and Engineering at Northwest A&F University. He studied at Xinjiang University and Northwest A&F University from 1993-2000. In 2004, he gained his PhD at Jiangnan University. After that, he worked as post-doc at Kyoto University (Japan) with key interests on agricultural and food wastes utilization, biomass saccharization, and bioethanol production. In 2009, he was appointed as full associate professor and started his own lab. His group studies various aspects of bioethanol production, e.g. subcritical water pretreatment, closed circuit fermentation, biofuel production using different agricultural wastes, and microbial community dynamics during fermentation. This research results, for example, in increasing knowledge about the clean bioethanol production and in expanding the pool of bioethanol feedstock.
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Professor of College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F UniversityRead Advances in 2nd Generation of Bioethanol Production on ScienceDirect