Higher Alcohols Production Platforms
From Strain Development to Process Design
- 1st Edition - September 26, 2023
- Latest edition
- Editors: Hamid Amiri, Meisam Tabatabaei, Abdul-Sattar Nizami
- Language: English
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
Higher 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
PhD students, researchers, and industry practitioners involved in the production of biofuels; biotechnologists, chemical engineers
1. Higher alcohols: The fundamentals
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
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
- Latest edition
- Published: September 26, 2023
- Language: English
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Hamid Amiri
Hamid Amiri is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering–Biotechnology at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia, with extensive academic and research experience in bioprocess design, integration, and techno-economic evaluation for waste-to-value platforms. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering–Biotechnology from the Isfahan University of Technology and has held senior academic and leadership roles in biotechnology and environmental research. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers, including influential works in Nature Food, Biotechnology Advances, and Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, attracting more than 3,300 citations (h-index 33, Google Scholar, August 2025). Recognised among the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering (Top 2% globally, 2023 and 2024), Dr Amiri is a member of the editorial board of BMC Biotechnology (Springer) and co-editor of the Elsevier book Higher Alcohols Production Platforms: From Strain Development to Process Design (Elsevier, 2023). His current research advances aquatic biorefineries for the sustainable production and property enhancement of high-value biopolymers through innovative processing strategies.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, MalaysiaMT
Meisam Tabatabaei
Meisam Tabatabaei is a Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. From 2010 to 2019, he 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 450 works, including original research papers and reviews in leading journals such as The Lancet, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Nature Food, Trends in Biotechnology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He currently serves as a Visiting Professor at Henan Agricultural University (China), Visiting Professor & Global Ambassador at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Zhengzhou University (China). He has held top editorial roles in journals with impact factors above 30 and is currently Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Biotechnology and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. As of June 2025, Prof. Tabatabaei has led and collaborated on 24 research projects with a focus on waste valorisation and biorefineries, sustainable aquaculture, climate change, and food security.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Environmental Biotechnology, Universiti Malaysia Terenggan, MalaysiaAN
Abdul-Sattar Nizami
Abdul-Sattar Nizami has a master’s in engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Gaseous Biofuel from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. Later, he worked at the University of Toronto, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow on alternative fuels, life cycle studies under the Institute for Sustainable Energy. He served the Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES) of King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as an Assistant Professor and Head of Solid Waste Management Unit, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, Pakistan. He has published more than 100 papers on the topics of renewable energy, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, catalytic pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and resource recovery. Dr. Nizami is an Associate Editor in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy & Environment, and Frontiers in Energy Research. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member in Bioresource Technology Reports, and Energy Sources Part B.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, PakistanRead Higher Alcohols Production Platforms on ScienceDirect