
Higher Alcohols Production Platforms
From Strain Development to Process Design
- 1st Edition - September 26, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Hamid Amiri, Meisam Tabatabaei, Abdul-Sattar Nizami
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 7 5 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 6 3 1 - 1
Higher Alcohols Production Platforms: From Strain Development to Process Design comprehensively covers the production of higher alcohols, from the fundamentals to the latest re… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHigher Alcohols Production Platforms: From Strain Development to Process Design comprehensively covers the production of higher alcohols, from the fundamentals to the latest research. Bringing together experts from industry and academia, the book sheds light on the practical aspects of higher alcohol production and offers a roadmap for researchers to follow. In addition to the fundamentals of higher alcohol production, readers are presented with detailed information on up and downstream processes, including microbial processes and the various production pathways available. A discussion of metabolic pathways has a dedicated chapter, as do C2, C3-C8, and C4 sugar fermentation platforms.
A lifecycle assessment is also presented, addressing the energy, environmental, social and economic factors in the sustainability of higher alcohol production. Readers will find this to be a unique and comprehensive reference on the production of higher alcohols that will be of interest to students, researchers and industry professionals involved in bioenergy and renewable energy, and more.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the energy, environmental and economic aspects of higher alcohols biofuels
- Presents a rational basis for assessing alcoholic products that can be used as a roadmap for their further developments
- Analyzes and synthesizes the latest research and developments on the production of higher alcohols as biofuels for audiences in academia and industry
2. Alcohol production: Metabolic pathways
3. Alcohol production: Upstream processes
4. Sugar fermentation: C2 (ethanolic) platform
5. Sugar fermentation: C3-C8 platforms
6. Sugar fermentation: C4 (Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol and Isopropanol-Butanol-Ethanol) platform
7. Sugar fermentation: C4 (fermentative and non-fermentative isobutanol) platform
8. Syngas fermentation platforms: Alcohols from syngas by mono- and mixed-cultures
9. Photosynthetic platforms: Alcohols from CO2
10. Electrofuel platforms: Non-photosynthetic alcohol production
11. Alcohol production: Downstream processes
12. Alcohol production: Scale-up
13. Life cycle assessment of higher alcohols production
14. Economic analysis: Prospective market of alcoholic fuels and chemicals
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 26, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 348
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323917568
- eBook ISBN: 9780323986311
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Hamid Amiri
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Meisam Tabatabaei
Meisam Tabatabaei is a Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. Over the last decade, Meisam has worked closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK). He has published over 400 publications, including original research papers and reviews in journals such as The LANCET, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Nature Food, Trends in Biotechnology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Henan Agricultural University, China, and University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a member of the editorial board for the journals Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Biofuel Research Journal, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Data in Brief, and Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects. Prof. Tabatabaei is the Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Biotechnology and Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and Senior Editor of e-Prime.
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