Biomass Processes and Chemicals
- 1st Edition - February 13, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: James G. Speight
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 6 7 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 2 4 4 - 6
Biomass Processes and Chemicals is written to assist the reader in understanding the options available for the production of chemicals from biomass. Petroleum-based and natura… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBiomass Processes and Chemicals is written to assist the reader in understanding the options available for the production of chemicals from biomass. Petroleum-based and natural gas-based chemicals are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However, time is running out and natural gas and petroleum are now being depleted. Thus, the need for alternative technologies to produce chemicals is necessary. Chemicals produced from sources are now coming into place for the establishment of a chemicals-from-biomass industry, hence this book covers these advancements.
- Introduces a variety of biomass feedstocks as sources of chemicals
- Includes accurate background science and technology for technological options
- Features a very thorough approach for topical matters
- Written in a highly structured way by a globally recognized authority in the field
Professionals, managers, and technicians in chemical engineering industry working on chemical and process aspects of the production of chemicals
Researchers in academia working on chemical and process aspects of the production of chemicals
Researchers in academia working on chemical and process aspects of the production of chemicals
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the author
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The chemical industry
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical aspects and overview
- 3. The chemical industry
- 4. Conventional sources of chemicals
- 5. Unconventional sources of chemicals
- 6. The next-generation feedstocks
- Chapter 2. Biomass
- 1. Introduction
- 2. History
- 3. Biomass resources
- 4. The chemistry of biomass
- 5. Preparation for processing
- 6. Biomass as a source of chemicals
- 7. The future
- Chapter 3. Chemicals from biogas
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Digester gas
- 3. Landfill gas
- 4. Gas cleaning and upgrading
- 5. Uses
- 6. The future
- Chapter 4. Chemicals from crops
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cereal crops and noncereal crops
- 3. Crops for chemicals
- 4. Products
- 5. The future
- Chapter 5. Chemicals from waste
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Domestic waste
- 3. Industrial waste
- 4. Effects of waste
- 5. Waste disposal
- 6. Chemicals from waste
- 7. The future
- Chapter 6. Chemicals from wood
- 1. Introduction
- 2. History
- 3. Woody biomass
- 4. Composition and properties
- 5. Black liquor, tall oil, and turpentine
- 6. Chemicals from wood
- 7. The future
- Chapter 7. The Fischer–Tropsch process
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Process history and development
- 3. Production of synthesis gas
- 4. Fischer–Tropsch chemistry
- 5. Products and product quality
- 6. Refining Fischer–Tropsch products
- Chapter 8. The biorefinery
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Feedstocks
- 3. Feedstock pretreatment
- 4. Chemistry in the biorefinery
- 5. Biorefinery configuration
- 6. Chemicals
- 7. The future
- Chapter 9. Chemical products
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Paraffin hydrocarbons
- 3. Olefin hydrocarbons
- 4. Alcohols
- 5. Bio-ethers
- 6. Bio-oil
- 7. Other chemical products
- 8. The future
- Glossary
- Appendix A. Conversion processes
- Appendix B. Gas cleaning processes
- Conversion tables
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 13, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 472
- No. of pages (eBook): 472
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128216798
- eBook ISBN: 9780128232446
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James G. Speight
Dr. Speight has more than fifty years of experience in areas associated with the properties and processing of conventional and synthetic fuels. He has participated in, as well as led, significant research in defining the use of chemistry of tar sand bitumen, heavy oil, conventional petroleum, natural gas, coal, oil shale, and biomass as well as work related to corrosion and corrosion prevention. He has founded and/or edited several international journals, most recently the Proceedings of the Oil Gas Scientific Research Project Institute, Azerbaijan, and Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis, until 2020).
Dr. Speight is an author/editor of several databases and encyclopedic works. He has also authored more than 95 books as well as more than 400 publications, reports, and presentations detailing these research activities, and has taught more than eighty related courses.
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