
Innovations in Thermochemical Technologies for Biofuel Processing
Description
Key Features
- Addresses solutions for clean fuel, energy security, waste management, waste valorization, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, carbon capture and sequestration, circular economy and climate change mitigation
- Includes applications of thermochemical conversion and reforming technologies for waste biomass to biofuels
- Covers current technologies in alternate fuels and chemicals production, a few of which include conversion technologies (i.e., liquefaction, gasification, pyrolysis, torrefaction, transesterification, organic transformation, carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions, oxidation, and reforming processes, etc.), hydrotreating technologies (i.e., hydrogenation, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation, hydrodearomatization and hydrodemetalization) and catalytic processes.
Readership
Graduate and postgraduate students, research scholars, academicians and industrial researchers working in interdisciplinary fields such as Chemical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Bioresources, Fuel Processing, Unit Operations, Biofuels and Bioenergy, Green Technology, Waste Management, Energy Conversion, Green Catalysis, Enzyme Technology, Industrial Engineering, Fuel Cell Chemistry, and other related fields. A guide for governmental and non-governmental organizations (including municipalities, research institutes, etc.), policymakers, biofuel scientists, industrial researchers, biochemists, academicians and research scholars working in the areas relating to renewable energy, biofuels and biochemicals
Table of Contents
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Editors biographies
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Thermochemical conversion of organic waste: New horizons for production of green energy
- Abstract
- Keyword
- Chapter Outline
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Green energy from organic wastes
- 1.3 Waste organic biomass
- 1.4 Thermochemical biomass conversion technologies
- 1.5 Hydrothermal biomass conversion technologies
- 1.6 Current challenges and future prospects
- 1.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2 Progress in biomass fast pyrolysis: An outlook of modern experimental approaches
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Modern approaches in fast pyrolysis of biomass
- 2.3 Effect of catalysts in isothermal fast pyrolysis of biomass
- 2.4 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 3 Production of solid and liquid fuels for energy applications via pyrolysis of biomass
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Solid fuel from biomass pyrolysis
- 3.3 Liquid fuel from biomass pyrolysis
- 3.4 Pretreatment methods in bio-oil production
- 3.5 Economic feasibility of bio-oil utilization in the production of biodiesel
- 3.6 Bibliometric analysis
- 3.7 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 4 Pyrolytic valorization of an invasive crop (Phragmites) to high-value biofuels and bioproducts
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Lignocellulosic biomass
- 4.3 Pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass
- 4.4 Effect of inorganics on pyrolysis reactions
- 4.5 Reactor technologies
- 4.6 Market and value-added products
- 4.7 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 5 State-of-the-art practices to upgrade biomass fast pyrolysis derived bio-oil
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Overview of newer techniques for bio-oil upgrading
- 5.3 Progress in computational or theoretical approach
- 5.4 Case study for using process simulation approach to study the upgrading of pyrolysis bio-oil: ASPEN simulation
- 5.5 Advancement on the biomass pyrolysis using machine-learning and data-driven approaches
- 5.6 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 6 Biofuel production with integrated pyrolysis and catalytic upgrading system
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Mechanism of biomass pyrolysis
- 6.3 Catalytic pyrolysis of solid biomass
- 6.4 Catalyst design for catalytic pyrolysis of solid biomass
- 6.5 Experimental and pilot studies in catalytic pyrolysis of biomass
- 6.6 Catalytic pyrolysis of waste oil
- 6.7 Catalyst design for catalytic pyrolysis of waste oil
- 6.8 Reactor design and process intensification for catalytic pyrolysis of waste oil
- 6.9 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7 Thermochemical valorization of oil palm biomass to value-added products: A biorefinery concept
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Oil palm biomass
- 7.3 Overview of thermochemical valorization of oil palm biomass
- 7.4 Biorefinery concept for the valorization of oil palm biomass
- 7.5 Industrial applications of the various products from the thermochemical valorization of oil palm biomass
- 7.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8 Vegetable oil-based feedstocks for biofuel production: Physicochemical properties and chemical compositions
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Bioethanol feedstocks
- 8.3 Biodiesel and green fuel feedstocks
- 8.4 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9 Advanced biofuels: Deoxygenation and hydrodeoxygenation catalytic reaction
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Generation of biofuel
- 9.3 Advanced biofuel: Potential feedstock and production technologies
- 9.4 Development and current status of hydrodeoxygenation and deoxygenation
- 9.5 Role of catalyst in hydrodeoxygenation and deoxygenation
- 9.6 Types of advanced biofuels
- 9.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10 Recent progress in biomass air gasification using moving and fixed bed gasifiers
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Air gasification using moving bed gasifiers
- 10.3 Air gasification via bubbling fluidized bed gasifier
- 10.4 Air gasification via entrained flow gasifier
- 10.5 Air gasification via circulating and dual fluidized bed gasifier
- 10.6 Air gasification using fixed bed gasifiers
- 10.7 Air gasification via updraft gasifier
- 10.8 Air gasification via downdraft gasifier
- 10.9 Air gasification via cross draft gasifier
- 10.10 Air gasification using a thermogravimetric analyzer
- 10.11 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 11 Hydrothermal gasification of biomass for hydrogen production: Advances, challenges, and prospects
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Biomass as a bioresource for hydrogen production
- 11.3 Hydrogen production from biomass
- 11.4 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 12 Combination of atmospheric pressure plasma with catalysts for dry reforming of methane to value-added chemicals
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Chapter Outline
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Nonthermal plasma catalysis
- 12.3 Plasma-catalyst interaction
- 12.4 CH4–CO2 conversion to synthesis gas using plasma and catalyst
- 12.5 Direct one-step CO2—CH4 conversion to liquid fuel using plasma and catalyst
- 12.6 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 338
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2022
- Published: March 15, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780323900751
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323855860
About the Editors
Sonil Nanda
Affiliations and Expertise
Dai-Viet Vo
Affiliations and Expertise
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