Biofuels and Sustainability

Life-cycle Assessments, System Biology, Policies, and Emerging Technologies

1st Edition - October 1, 2024
Editors: Daochen Zhu, Mudasir Ahmad Dar, Mohd. Shahnawaz
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 3 3 - 2
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 3 4 - 9

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Biofuels and Sustainability: Life-cycle Assessments, System Biology, Policies, and Emerging Technologies presents the current progress and challenges related to the sustainability of biofuels. Addressing a wide range of issues, the book examines the methods and technologies, policies for sustainable biofuels, impacts of advanced fuels, recent advances, and future research prospects. Reflecting new developments, emphasis is given to new biological/biochemical approaches that offer the most efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable strategies for biofuel production.

Divided into five parts, the first provides an overview of biofuels, the need for alternate fuels, carbon footprints, life cycle assessments, environmental aspects, various generations of biofuels, biofuel production from lignocellulosic material, and artificial intelligence in biofuel production. Part 2 examines the various methods and technologies for biofuels production, with case studies from the USA, UK, and Brazil. Part 3 explores the policies for sustainable biofuels, including current standards, with applications from the USA, European Union, Asia, and Africa. Part 4 analyses the impacts of advanced fuels in the decarbonization of transport, climate change mitigation, sustainable agriculture, and water resources, with perspectives from developed and developing countries. Finally, Part 5 critically reviews the recent advances and future research prospects related to termites, insects, metabolic engineering, microorganisms, and bioreactors.

Part-I: Overview of Biofuels

1. A perspective on the emergence and need of alternate fuels.

2. Carbon foot-printing analysis and strategies for limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: Life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis of biofuels/bioproducts production/application pathways and compliance with the international standard

3. Environmental Aspects of biofuels used as Sustainable Energy resources: Current Situation and Future Trends

4. Drawbacks of the first-generation of biofuels: Challenges and paradigm shifts in technology for second and third generation biofuels

5. Preprocessing of the lignocellulosic waste for biofuel productions

Part-2: Methods and technologies

6. A holistic approach towards the maximum conversion of lignocellulose into biofuels

7. Targeting lignin as a substrate for future biorefinery

8. Using systems biology to exploit the resources/natural reservoirs for biofuel production

9. Exploiting the gut bacteria for the production of biofuels from lignocellulose

10. Rumen as a potential reservoir for advanced biocatalysts for alternate fuels

Part-3: Polices for sustainable biofuels

11. Guidelines for the production of different generations of Biofuels in United states

12. Policies and innovative technologies required for the sustainable production of biofuels from organic waste

13. European Union guidelines for the production of different generations of biofuels

14. Policies and guidelines for the production of Biofuels in Asian counties

15. African countries regulations and guidelines for the production of biofuels

16. Hindrances and drawback in the existing Biofuel policies and roadmap for sustainable production of biofuels

Part 4: Impact of advanced biofuels

17. Impact of advances biofuels to decarbonizes transport

18. Impact of advanced biofuels on climate change

19. Impact of advanced biofuels on sustainable agriculture

20. Impact of advanced biofuels on water resources

21. The impact of developed countries advanced Biofuel production on developing countries

Part-5: Recent advances and Future research prospects

22. Can termites serve the role of future biorefinery?

23. Non-termite Insects as biomimetic models to advance the production of second and third generation of biofuels

24. Metabolic engineering and designing of the novel biomass species for enhanced production of biofuels

25. Bioengineering of the extremophilic microorganisms for biofuel production

26. Design of the novel bioreactors for efficient bioconversion of lignocellulose into bioethanol

Daochen Zhu

Prof. Zhu has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience after obtaining PhD degree. Dr. Daochen Zhu is currently working as a Professor at Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. He is a reviewer and editorial board member of various peer-reviewed journals of international repute. His research group mainly focuses on microorganism resource and diversity, Enzyme mediated valorization of lignin into value added commodity products, and biodegradation of organic pollutants. He is also interested in the mitigation of microplastic through bioremediation technology. Dr. Zhu has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, 12 patents, and 4 book chapters and three edited books to his credit with international repute.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor at Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, China

Mudasir Ahmad Dar

Dr. Dar have more than 3 years of teaching and research experience after obtaining PhD degree. Dr. Mudasir Ahmad Dar is working as an Associate Professor, at Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. He is currently working to design a novel biorefinery model adapted from the termite-bacteria symbiosis via biomimetic strategies. He completed his postdoctoral studies from the Jiangsu University, China. He has completed his masters in Zoology from University of Pune, Maharashtra with First Division. After completing his master’s, he pursued Ph.D. from the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, under the supervision of Prof. R. S. Pandit on the topic entitled, Bioprospection of symbiotic gut-bacteria from the snails for agro-waste disposal management. He is highly interested to work on Biofuels; Environmental biotechnology; Bioremediation, Systems biology; Gut-microbiome; Bioprospection; and modeling insects for biotechnological applications.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, China

Mohd. Shahnawaz

Dr. Shahnawaz have more than 6 years of teaching and research experience after obtaining his doctoral degree. Recently, Dr. Mohd. Shahnawaz got selected as an Associate Professor at Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. In 2020, he got selected as a postdoc fellow at Yeungnam University, South Korea; however, due to the COVID-19 scenario, he was not able to join. He has several years of teaching and postdoctoral research experience. Dr. Shahnawaz worked on bioremediation of polythene at the Botany Department, SP Pune University, during his doctoral research with Prof. A. B. Ade. He is recipient of various fellowships awarded by the SPPU, UGC-BSR, UGC-MANF, and DST-SERB. His research interest is in Biofuels, Microbiology, Bioremediation, and Plant Biotechnology. Besides working on the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels, he is also focused on the mitigation of microplastic using bioremediation technology.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, University of Ladakh, Kargil Campus, India