Biofuels from agricultural wastes and byproducts
Traditional agriculture and emerging biofuels technology produce a number of wastes and by-products, ranging from corn fiber and glycerin to animal manure, that have the potential to serve as the basis for additional sources of bioenergy that includes both liquid biofuels and biogas
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| Language: | English |
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Ames, Iowa :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Biofuels from agricultural wastes and byproducts: An Introduction
- 2. Production of liquid biofuels from biomass: emerging technologies
- 3. Butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass
- 4. Practical aspects of methane production from agricultural wastes
- 5. Conversion of agricultural residues to bioethanol : the roles of cellulases and cellulosomes
- 6. Fuel and chemical production from glycerol, a biodiesel waste product
- 7. Farm-gate to plant-gate delivery of lignocellulosic feedstocks from plant biomass for biofuel production
- 8. Conversion of existing dry-mill ethanol operations to biorefineries
- 9. Cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues
- 10. Hydrothermal liquefaction to convert biomass into crude oil
- 11. Detoxification of lignocellulosic hydrolysates