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Biomass to biofuels : strategies for global industries /

Biomass to biofuels : strategies for global industries / - Chichester : Wiley, c2010. - xxii, 559 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Characteristics of biofuels and renewable fuel standards / global demand for biofuels: technologies, markets and policies / Biofuel demand realization / Advanced biorefineries for the production of fuel ethanol / Biomass liquefaction and gasification / Diesel from syngas / Biodiesel from vegetable oils / Biofuels from microalgae and seaweeds / Improvements in corn to ethanol production technology using Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Advanced technologies for biomass hydrolysis and saccharification using novel enzymes / Mass balances and analytical methods for biomass pretreatment experiments / Biomass conversion inhibitors and in situ detoxification / Fuel ethanol production from lignocellulosic raw materials using recombinant yeasts / Conversion of biomass to ethanol by other organisms / Advanced fermentation technologies / Advanced product recovery technologies / Clostridia and process engineering for energy generation / Hydrogen generation by microbial cultures / Engineering photosynthesis for H₂ production from H₂O: cyanobacteria as design organisms / Production and utilization of methane biogas as renewable fuel / Methanol production and utilization / Enhancing primary raw materials for biofuels / Axes of development in chemical and process engineering for converting biomass to energy / Financing strategies for industrial-scale biofuel production and technology development start-ups / Alan C. Hansen, Dimitrios C. Kyritsis and Chia fon F. Lee -- Jürgen Scheffran -- Stephen R. Hughes and Nasib Qureshi -- Stephen R. Hughes, William Gibbons and Scott Kohl -- Nicolaus Dahmen ... [et al.] -- Yong-Wang Li, Jian Xu and Yong Yang -- Jon Van Gerpen -- Michael Huesemann ... [et al.] -- Vijay Singh ... [et al.] -- Margret E. Berg Miller ... [et al.] -- Bruce S. Dien -- Z. Lewis Liu and Hans P. Blaschek -- Grant Stanley and Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal -- Siqing Liu -- Masayuki Inui, Alain A. Vertès and Hideaki Yukawa -- Thaddeus C. Ezeji and Yebo Li -- Nasib Qureshi and Hans P. Blaschek -- Anja Hemschemeier ... [et al.] -- Nadine Waschewski, Gábor Bernát, and Matthias Rögner -- Zhongtang Yu, Mark Morrison, and Floyd L. Schanbacher -- Gregory A. Dolan -- Takahisa Hayashi ... [et al.] -- Alain A. Vertès -- Alain A. Vertès and Sarit Soccary Ben Yochanan. The

Focusing on challenges to the billion-ton renewable fuels vision, this text discusses the technological and business developments needed to industrialize biofuels on a global scale.

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Biomass energy industries--International cooperation.
Biomass energy--International cooperation.
Renewable energy sources.
Globalization.

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