Next-Generation Biofuels
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Sonil Nanda, Prasenjit Mondal
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 5 6 4 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 5 6 5 - 4
Next-Generation Biofuels delves into recent innovations and research advancements in alternative fuel processing for sustainable energy management. Focusing on thermo… Read more
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Next-Generation Biofuels delves into recent innovations and research advancements in alternative fuel processing for sustainable energy management. Focusing on thermochemical biorefining technologies, the book explores the production of advanced biofuel products, covering topics such as reaction mechanisms, catalysis, kinetic modeling, thermodynamics, process integration and optimization. It also addresses key aspects like process design and scale-up, supply chain management, and lifecycle and techno-economic assessments. The book highlights the benefits and drivers of next-generation biofuels, examining economic feasibility, sustainability, and policy frameworks through detailed case studies. Furthermore, it discusses future challenges and opportunities for large-scale implementation of thermochemical biomass conversion technologies.
Aimed at scientists, researchers, engineers, and students in the field, this book offers valuable insights into biofuels, biochemicals, and biomass conversion technologies and its potential impact on sustainability.
Aimed at scientists, researchers, engineers, and students in the field, this book offers valuable insights into biofuels, biochemicals, and biomass conversion technologies and its potential impact on sustainability.
- Provides up-to-date info on clean fuel, energy security, waste management, and climate change mitigation
- Focuses on thermochemical conversion technologies for waste biomass to biofuels like BtL, BtG, GtL
- Covers conversion technologies, hydrotreating technologies, and catalytic processes for alternate fuels production
- Emphasizes biomass conversion technologies with flow diagrams, reactor schematics, and statistical data
- Explores recent developments in biofuels, bioprocess engineering, and environmental risk assessment
- Includes topics like fuel refining, circular economy, life-cycle assessment, and GIS-based biomass supply chain modeling
- Aids understanding chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and techno-economic analysis of biofuel production
- Serves as a platform for translating knowledge between academia, industries, regulators, and policymakers for advancing alternate fuels research
(Post)graduate students, researchers in academia and industry in chemical engineering, bioprocess engineering, bioresources, fuel processing, unit operations, biofuels and bioenergy, green technology, waste management, energy conversion, green catalysis, enzyme technology, industrial engineering, and fuel cell chemistry
1. Focused perspectives on sustainable technologies for biofuels and biochemicals production: A review of opportunities and bottlenecks
2. Breakthrough in the co-production of biomethane and biohydrogen using fermentative technologies
3. Technological advances in gasification technology to generate high-grade syngas fuels
4. Production of green hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals from catalytic Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
5. Current developments in transesterification technology to produce biodiesel
6. Production and upgrading of bio-crude oil from hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass
7. Hydroprocessing of bio-oil and bio-crude oil for catalytic upgrading to clean transportation fuels
8. Production and application of bio-jetfuel as a renewable aviation fuel
9. Recent advances in biomass pyrolysis for bio-oil and biochar production
10. Promising applications of biochar in agriculture and environmental restoration
11. Emerging applications of biochar in anaerobic digestion for improved biogas production
12. Lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of biorefinery technologies for scale-up and commercialization
2. Breakthrough in the co-production of biomethane and biohydrogen using fermentative technologies
3. Technological advances in gasification technology to generate high-grade syngas fuels
4. Production of green hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals from catalytic Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
5. Current developments in transesterification technology to produce biodiesel
6. Production and upgrading of bio-crude oil from hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass
7. Hydroprocessing of bio-oil and bio-crude oil for catalytic upgrading to clean transportation fuels
8. Production and application of bio-jetfuel as a renewable aviation fuel
9. Recent advances in biomass pyrolysis for bio-oil and biochar production
10. Promising applications of biochar in agriculture and environmental restoration
11. Emerging applications of biochar in anaerobic digestion for improved biogas production
12. Lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of biorefinery technologies for scale-up and commercialization
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Sonil Nanda
Dr. Sonil Nanda is a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biology from York University, Canada; M.Sc. degree in Applied Microbiology from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT University), India; and B.Sc. degree in Microbiology from Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, India. Dr. Nanda’s research areas are related to the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals through thermochemical and biochemical conversion technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis, carbonization and fermentation. He has gained expertise in hydrothermal gasification of a wide variety of organic wastes and biomass including agricultural and forestry residues, industrial effluents, municipal solid wastes, cattle manure, sewage sludge and food wastes to produce hydrogen fuel. His parallel interests are also in the generation of hydrothermal flames for the treatment of hazardous wastes, agronomic applications of biochar, phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soils, as well as carbon capture and sequestration. Dr. Nanda has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, 30 book chapters and has presented at many international conferences. Dr. Nanda serves as a Fellow Member of the Society for Applied Biotechnology in India, as well as a Life Member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers; Association of Microbiologists of India; Indian Science Congress Association; and the Biotech Research Society of India. He is also an active member of several chemical engineering societies across North America such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Chemical Institute of Canada, and the Combustion Institute-Canadian Section. Dr. Nanda is an Assistant Subject Editor for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier). He has also edited several Special Issues in renowned journals such as the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier), Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier) Waste and Biomass Valorization (Springer), Topics in Catalysis (Springer), SN Applied Sciences (Springer), Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (Springer), and Chemical Engineering & Technology (Wiley).
Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaPM
Prasenjit Mondal
Dr. Prasenjit Mondal is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Uttarakhand, India. He is an established international scholar in biofuel technologies, wastewater treatment, bioproduct separation and lifecycle assessment of bioprocesses. With a total Google Scholar citation of 5,210, he has published 170 journal articles, edited 2 books and delivered 150 conference presentations. Dr. Mondal is the co-founder of “Prayas GreenTech”, a resource recovery and recycling start-up company in Roorkee, India. He edited several Special Issues in prestigious journals.