Main description:

Renewable fuel research and process development requires interdisciplinary approaches involving chemists and physicists from both scientific and engineering backgrounds. Here is an important volume that emphasizes green chemistry and green engineering principles for sustainable process development from an interdisciplinary point of view. It creates an enriching knowledge base on green chemistry of biofuel production, sustainable process development, and green engineering principles for renewable fuel production. This book includes chapters contributed by both research scientists and research engineers with significant experience in biofuel chemistry and processes.

The book offers an abundance of scientific experimental methods and analytical procedures and interpretation of the results that capture the state-of-the-art knowledge in this field. The wide range of topics make this book a valuable resource for academicians, researchers, industrial practitioners and scientists, and engineers in various renewable energy fields.

Key features:

* Emphasizes green chemistry and green engineering principles for sustainable process development for biofuel production

* Discusses a wide array of biofuels from algal biomass to waste-to-energy technologies and wastewater treatment and activated sludge processes

* Presents advances and developments in biofuel green chemistry and green engineering, including process intensification (microwaves/ultrasound), ionic liquids, and green catalysis

* Looks at environmental assessment and economic impact of biofuel production

Contents:

Green Chemistry and Engineering for Sustainable Biofuel Production. Biofuel Feedstock: Challenges and Opportunities. Fuels from Recycled Carbon. Green Catalysts and Catalytic Processes for Biofuel Production. Process Intensification and Parametric Optimization in Biodiesel Synthesis Using Microwave Reactors. Process Intensification and Parametric Optimization in Biodiesel Synthesis Using Hydrodynamic Cavitation Reactors. Hydrothermal Processes for Biofuel and Bioenergy Production. Sustainable Biofuels and Chemicals Production Using Ionic Liquids. Algae as a Sustainable Feedstock for Biofuel Production. Bioenergy from Activated Sludge and Wastewater. Bioelectrochemical Systems for Biofuel (Electricity, Hydrogen, and Methane) and Valuable Chemical Production. Energy Balance/Efficiency and Economic Analysis of Biofuel Production. Techno-Economic Analysis of Microalgae and Algal Biofuel Production (as a Tool for Driving R&D Efforts). Mismatch of Life-Cycle Inventories for Bioenergy, Fossil Fuel, and Agricultural Resource Production.