Advances in Bioenergy and Microfluidic Applications

1st Edition - February 2, 2021
Editors: Mohammad Reza Rahimpour, Reza Kamali, Mohammad Amin Makarem, Mohammad Karim Dehghan Manshadi
Language: English
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Since fossil fuels suffer from dangerous side effects for the environment and their resources are limited, bioenergy attracted many attentions in various aspects as an alternative solution. Therefore, increasing number of researches are conducted every year and the processes updated frequently to make them more economic and industrially beneficial. Advances in Bioenergy and Microfluidic Applications reviews recent developments in this field and covers various advanced bio-applications, which rarely are reviewed elsewhere. The chapters are started from converting biomass to valuable products and continues with applications of biomass in water-treatment, novel sorbents and membranes, refineries, microfluidic devices and etc. The book covers various routes for gaining bioenergy from biomass. Their composition, carbon contents, heat production capacities and other important factors are reviewed in details in different chapters. Then, the processes for upgrading them directly and indirectly (using metabolic engineering and ultrasonic devices) to various fuels are explained. Each process is reviewed both technically and economically and the product analysis is given. Besides, the effect of various catalysts on increasing selectivity and productivity are taken into account. Biofuels are compared with fossil fuels and challenges in the way of bioenergy production are explained. Moreover, advanced bio-applications in membranes, adsorption, waste water treatment, microfluidic devices and etc. are introduced. This book provides a good insight about such bioprocesses and microfluidics devices for researchers, students, professors and related departments and industries that care about energy resources and curious about recent advances in related methods and technologies. Despite other books which review biomass chemistry and conversion, the current book emphasize on the application of biomass in the mentioned areas. Therefore, one can gain a better and more comprehensive insight by reading the book.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Section I. Biomass conversion and upgrading
1. Biomass conversion: general information, chemistry, and processes
1. Introduction
2. Chemical characterization of biomass
3. Biomass classification
4. From biomass to bioenergy production
5. Pretreatment processes of lignocellulosic biomass
6. Conversion technologies
7. Global biomass trends
8. Conclusion and future outlooks
2. An overview on pretreatment processes for an effective conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into bioethanol
1. Introduction
2. Pretreatment
3. Combined pretreatment
4. Conclusion and future trends
3. Biofuel purification and upgrading: using novel integrated membrane technology
1. Introduction
2. Membrane features
3. Membrane types
4. Benefits and drawbacks of using membrane technology in biofuel purification and upgrading
5. Membrane fouling
6. Upgrading biogas
7. Biodiesel purification
8. Upgrading bio-oil
9. Purification of bioethanol
10. Upgrading biohydrogen
11. Conclusion and future trend
4. Chemical looping conversion of biomass and biomass-derived feedstocks
1. Introduction
2. Basic principles and concepts
3. Chemical looping biomass and biomass-derived conversion
4. Comparative analysis
5. Concluding challenges and outlooks
Section II. Biomass conversion into bioproducts
5. Production of biogas, bio-oil, and biocoal from biomass
1. Introduction
2. Biomass technologies
3. Biogas
4. Bio-oil
5. Biocoal
6. Environmental impact and future of biomass and bioenergy
7. Conclusion and future trends
6. Production of biodiesel from biomass
1. Introduction
2. History of biodiesel
3. Biodiesel market
4. Feedstock classification and pretreatment
5. Biodiesel production processes
6. Transesterification of vegetable oil using homogeneous catalyst
7. Transesterification of vegetable oil using heterogeneous catalyst
8. Other processes of biodiesel production
9. Biodiesel byproduct: challenges and opportunities in glycerol valorization
10. Conclusions
7. Thermochemical routes for hydrogen production from biomass
1. Introduction
2. Hydrogen as a sustainable and clean energy carrier
3. Application of hydrogen
4. Feedstock for hydrogen production
5. Hydrogen from biomass feedstock
6. Different methods of hydrogen production
7. Production of hydrogen via thermochemical processes
8. Conclusion
8. Biofuel production from microalgae and process enhancement by metabolic engineering and ultrasound
1. Introduction
2. Microalgae
3. The procedure of lipid extraction from the microalgae biomass
4. Biofuel production from the microalgae extracted lipid
5. Production of biofuel from microalgae with ultrasound
6. Biofuel production improvement with metabolic engineered microalga
7. Conclusion
9. Biomass conversion to biomethanol
1. Introduction
2. Methanol production routes
3. Biomass to methanol technology
4. Challenges on industrialization
5. Conclusion
Section III. Advanced bioenergy applications
10. Biomass as a source of adsorbents for CO2 capture
1. Introduction
2. Chemical sorption
3. Physical adsorption
4. Conclusion and future outlooks
11. Fuel cells based on biomass
1. Introduction
2. Basis of MFC
3. Microbial culture
4. Scale-up and developments in technology
5. Conclusion
12. Wastewater treatment: employing biomass
1. Introduction
2. The biomass utilized in water and wastewater treatment
3. Operating parameters
4. Aerobic water treatment
5. Anaerobic water treatment
6. The membrane bioreactor
7. Sequencing batch reactor
8. Fixed bed reactors
9. Fluidized bed reactors
10. Dual-purpose algae–based systems
11. Economic analysis
12. Conclusion and future trends
13. Microfluidic devices and their bioprocess applications
1. Introduction to microfluidic device
2. Biomass
3. Production technology of bioenergy
4. Microfluidic device application in biofuel
5. Conclusion and future trends
14. Micro-bioprocessors and their applications in bioenergy production
1. Introduction
2. Micro-bioprocessors
3. Biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels
4. Micro-bioprocessors and fuel cells
5. Conclusions and future trends
15. An overview on micropumps, micromixers, and their applications in bioprocess
1. Introduction
2. Various types of bioprocess
3. Microfluidics bioprocess
4. Micromixers
5. Micropumps
6. Conclusion and future trend
16. Droplet-based microfluidic platforms and an overview with a focus on application in biofuel generation
1. Introduction
2. Droplet formation regimes
3. Device fabrications
4. Passive methods
5. Active methods
6. Droplet-based microfluidic platforms for bioenergy applications
7. Conclusions and future trends
17. Application of biomass ash for brick manufacturing
1. Introduction
2. Bricks
3. Necessity of the addition of wastes to the bricks
4. Biomass ash
5. Wastes categorization
6. Constituent of brick
7. Biomass origin
8. Effects of biomass waste addition to the bricks raw material
9. Brick production: process and methods
10. Commercialization
11. Conclusion and future aspects
18. Biomass technologies industrialization and environmental challenges
1. Introduction
2. Technology overview
3. Environmental challenges
4. Conclusion and future trends
Index

Mohammad Reza Rahimpour

Prof. Mohammad Reza Rahimpour is a professor in Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University joint with University of Sydney, Australia 1988. He started his independent career as Assistant Professor in September 1998 at Shiraz University. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour, was a Research Associate at University of California, Davis from 2012 till 2017. During his stay in University of California, he developed different reaction networks and catalytic processes such as thermal and plasma reactors for upgrading of lignin bio-oil to biofuel with collaboration of UCDAVIS. He has been a Chair of Department of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University from 2005 till 2009 and from 2015 till 2020. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour leads a research group in fuel processing technology focused on the catalytic conversion of fossil fuels such as natural gas, and renewable fuels such as bio-oils derived from lignin to valuable energy sources. He provides young distinguished scholars with perfect educational opportunities in both experimental methods and theoretical tools in developing countries to investigate in-depth research in the various field of chemical engineering including carbon capture, chemical looping, membrane separation, storage and utilization technologies, novel technologies for natural gas conversion and improving the energy efficiency in the production and use of natural gas industries.

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Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Reza Kamali

Reza Kamali is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the Shiraz University; one of the most prestigious universities in Iran. He teaches graduate and under graduate courses and conduct researches in the area of microfluidics, nanofluidics, biofluidics, energy systems, drug delivery, and alternative energy sources. He has over 24 years of academic and industrial experience and served in several public and private boards and panels and he has supervised several undergraduate, masters and PhD students as well as publishing many papers in high ranked journals and conferences. He also has several international collaborations with other international research teams in universities such as Dublin City University, University of Calgary, University of Brighton, and University of Wyoming.

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School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Mohammad Amin Makarem

Dr. Mohammad Amin Makarem is a research associate at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He former worked at Shiraz University. His research interests are gas separation and purification, nanofluids, microfluidics, catalyst synthesis, reactor design and green energy. In gas separation, his focus is on experimental and theoretical investigation and optimization of pressure swing adsorption process, and in the gas purification field, he is working on novel technologies such as microchannels. Recently, he has investigated methods of synthesizing bio-template nanomaterials and catalysts. Besides, he has collaborated in writing and editing various books and book-chapters for famous publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley, as well as guest editing journals special issues.

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Taylor's University, Malaysia

Mohammad Karim Dehghan Manshadi

Mohammad Karim Dehghan Manshadi is a research assistant at Shiraz University. His research has focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, biofluidics, and drug delivery and he published several papers in high ranked journals. He also has various international collaborations with Dublin City University and University of Calgary.

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School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

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