Nanomaterials in Biomass Conversion

Advances and Applications for Bioenergy, Biofuels, and Bio-based Products

1st Edition - February 23, 2024
Editors: Komal Rizwan, Muhammad Bilal
Language: English
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Nanomaterials in Biomass Conversion: Advances and Applications for Bioenergy, Biofuels and Biobased Products critically reviews basic principles and advances in nanotechnology for the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Sections explain the fundamentals of nanomaterials, their properties, characterization, and basic processes for synthesis while also reviewing various methods and technologies for the conversion of biomass to bioenergy, biofuels, and value-added products using nanomaterials. This includes homogeneous and heterogeneous nano-catalytic systems, nano-photocatalytic conversion, nanomaterial-assisted anaerobic digestion, nanoparticles-immobilized enzymes conversion, the production of biogas, volatile fatty acids, value-added products, and in carbon capture and conversion to sustainable energy products, and much more.

Final sections address technoeconomics and financial viability in the context of the circular economy, risk related to toxicology, stability, and environmental impacts, and consider the various challenges and future opportunities of biomass conversion through nanomaterials.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Woodhead Series in Bioenergy
Copyright
List of contributors
Preface
1. Biomass feedstock: A sustainable and renewable source of energy production
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Bioenergy, a key pillar of modern sustainability
1.3. Biomass conversion pathways
1.4. Conclusion
2. Nanotechnology for bioenergy production
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Global view of bioenergy and biofuel
2.3. Nanotechnology in bioenergy production
2.4. Nanotechnology in hydrogen production
2.5. Conclusion
3. Introduction to nanomaterials: A strategic tool for production of biofuel and bioenergy from biomass
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Role of nanoparticles in biofuel production
3.3. Challenges as well as boundaries of nanomaterials in biofuel in bioenergy manufacturing
3.4. Use of nanomaterials to improve the production of biofuels and bioenergy from biomass through photocatalysis and nanofiltration
3.5. Use of nanocatalysts to enhance the efficiency by reducing activation energy and enhancing rate of reaction
3.6. Conclusion
4. Chemical and bio-mediated processes for the synthesis of nanomaterials
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Synthesis methods of nanomaterials
4.3. Bio-mediated method
4.4. Conclusion
4.5. Future perspectives
Abbreviations
5. Nanomaterials derived from animals, plants, and microbes for energy production
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Nanotechnology
5.3. Use of nanomaterials in the field of renewable energy
5.4. Microorganism-derived nanomaterials
5.5. Plant-derived nanomaterials
5.6. Animal-derived nanomaterials
5.7. Land animal–derived nanomaterials
5.8. Conclusion
6. Physicochemical attributes, structural characterization, and catalytic properties of nanomaterials
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Physicochemical properties
6.3. Selectivity parameters for nanomaterials
6.4. Structural characterization of nanomaterials
6.5. Catalytic properties of nanomaterials
6.6. Conclusion
7. Homogeneous and heterogeneous nanocatalytic systems for bioenergy and biofuel production
7.1. Overview of bioenergy and biofuels
7.2. Biofuels production via nanotechnology
7.3. Nanocatalyst for biofuel production
7.4. Importance of machine learning, modeling, and optimization of biofuel production
7.5. Issues and challenges and future perspectives
8. Nanophotocatalytic conversion of biomass to bioenergy
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Biomass as useful source of energy
8.3. Catalytic or photocatalytic conversion of biomass
8.4. Catalyst and nanomaterials as photocatalyst or nanophotocatalyst
8.5. Nanophotocatalytic conversion of biomass into energy
8.6. Potentially employed photocatalysts for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass
8.7. Different types of bioenergy by using nanophotocatalyst
8.8. Some nanophotocatalyst for energy production from biomass
8.9. Conclusion
8.10. Future prospectives
9. Potential role of nano-biochar, nano-cellulose, and other nanomaterials in microbial fuel cell
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Nano-biochar in MFCs
9.3. Nano-cellulose in MFCs
9.4. Other nanomaterials in MFCs
9.5. Challenges and considerations
9.6. Conclusion
10. Nanomaterial-assisted anaerobic digestion of biomass for bioenergy and biofuel production
10.1. Anaerobic digestion—Introduction
10.2. Anaerobic digestion process stages
10.3. Factors affecting anaerobic digestion
10.4. Denitrification
10.5. Ammonia
10.6. Challenges like toxicity of nanomaterials to microorganisms and environment
10.7. Why nanomaterials are important?
10.8. Types of nanomaterials and their impacts on the AD process
10.9. Mechanisms of nanomaterials in AD process
10.10. Factors affecting the performance of nanoparticles
10.11. Challenges and future outlook
11. Augmentation of biomass digestion under optimal conditions for bioenergy production
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Biomass and its sources
11.3. Biomass conversion technologies
11.4. Anaerobic digestion
11.5. Process of Anaerobic digestion
11.6. AD biological community
11.7. Bioenergy/biofuel production by AD of biomass
11.8. Key parameters for AD process
11.9. Nano-assisted bioenergy/biofuel production
11.10. Nanomaterials
11.11. Types of Nanomaterial in AD enhancement
11.12. Nano-assisted biofuel production
11.13. Factors influencing nano-assisted biofuel production
11.14. Conclusion
11.15. Future directions
12. Advances in nanomaterials for production of fuel gases from biomass
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Biomass conversion techniques/technologies
12.3. Role of nanomaterials in biomass conversion
12.4. Nanomaterials for enhanced fuel gas production from biomass
12.5. Nanomaterials for gas cleaning and conditioning
12.6. Emerging nanomaterials and innovative techniques
12.7. Challenges and future perspectives
12.8. Conclusion
13. Developments in nanomaterials for conversion of biomass to bio-based value-added products
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Nanomaterials-based biomass pretreatment
13.3. Production of value-added derivatives
13.4. Challenges and opportunities
13.5. Conclusion
14. Production of volatile fatty acids from biomass, their recovery and applications in fuel and other valued products formation
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Production of VFAs from biomass
14.3. Recovery of volatile fatty acids
14.4. Applications of VFA in fuel formation
14.5. Applications of VFA in valued products formation
14.6. Future prospects and challenges
14.7. Conclusion
15. Nanomaterials for carbon capture and their conversion to useful products for sustainable energy production
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Carbon capture
15.3. Existing carbon capturing and storage methods
15.4. Carbon capture through conventional methods
15.5. Advanced methods
15.6. Carbon capture to useful products
15.7. Conclusion
16. Nanomaterial for carbon dioxide capturing and carbon emission control
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Carbon emission impact
16.3. Nanomaterials for CO2 capturing
16.4. Modification techniques for enhancement of CO2 capture
16.5. Nanomaterials properties–performance relationships
16.6. Membranes-based nanomaterials for CO2 capturing
16.7. CO2 emission control through sustainable catalysis conversions
16.8. Concluding remarks
17. Recovery of resources and circular economy from biomass-derived waste through aerobic and anaerobic digestion-based technique
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Biomass waste
17.3. Global scenario of biowaste generation
17.4. Biowaste recycling and its resource recovery
17.5. Biomass-derived wastes and bioproducts
17.6. Biomass-waste conversion techniques
17.7. Bioenergy and bioproducts generated by different bioprocesses
17.8. Biorefinery processes and bioproducts
17.9. Circular economy
17.10. Sustainable biomass
17.11. Bio-based fertilizers
17.12. Significance of circular economy of bioenergy and bioproducts
17.13. Biowaste refining process advancement and technologies for bioenergy and bioproducts development
17.14. Challenges and prospects of bio-based circular economy
17.15. Circular life cycle assessment tools for biowaste utilization
17.16. Policy frame works for transforming bio-based sector toward circular economy
17.17. Conclusion
17.18. Research gaps and future aspects
18. Potential risks, toxicology, stability, economic feasibility, and environmental impacts of biomass conversion
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Biomass conversion pathways
18.3. Potential risks of biomass conversion
18.4. Toxicology of biomass conversion
18.5. Socioeconomic issues
18.6. Stability and economic consideration
18.7. Environmental impacts of biomass conversion
18.8. Conclusion and future perspective
19. Challenges and future prospective of biomass conversion to various products
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Current state of energy production from biomass feedstock
19.3. Availability of biomass resource for biofuels
19.4. Structural complexity of biomass
19.5. Technological progress for increasing biofuel production
19.6. Biofuels production: Challenges and perspectives
19.7. The need for incentives and shift in policies
19.8. Conclusion
Index

Komal Rizwan

She earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan in 2016 and carried out research work at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She is interested in synthesizing molecules that possess interesting functions, including biological activity (natural products, drugs, drug-like compounds etc.) or materials with useful properties. She develops tools to perform efficient synthetic transformations in creating novel molecular architectures of medicinal or industrial relevance. In a nutshell, my interests are broadly in synthetic organic chemistry, with a particular focus on the synthesis of bioactive natural products and novel molecular architectures (nanomaterials). She worked on organic synthesis focused on catalysis, visible light photoredox couplings, transition metal-catalyzed -couplings, and click chemistry. Synthesis of nanomaterials and their applications to control environmental pollution is also her area of interest.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Sahiwal, Sahiwal, Pakistan

Muhammad Bilal

Muhammad Bilal is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Previously, he served as an assistant/associate Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and the School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in bioengineering and applied biotechnology. His main research activities are oriented to Environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications, and industrial applications of microbial enzymes, liquid, and solid waste management. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books. Dr. Bilal is the associate editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers), and an editorial board member for several journals. He was listed as a highly cited researcher (Clarivate) in 2021 and holds several "highly cited papers" in WOS.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

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