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

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.