This book covers almost all of the diverse aspects of utilizing lignocellulosic biomass for valuable biorefinery product development of chemicals, alternative fuels and energy.
The world has shifted towards sustainable development for the generation of energy and industrially valuable chemicals. Biorefinery plays an important role in the integration of conversion process with high-end equipment facilities for the generation of energy, fuels and chemicals.
The book is divided into four parts. The first part, Basic Principles of Biorefinery, covers the concept of biorefinery, its application in industrial bioprocessing, the utilization of biomass for biorefinery application, and its future prospects and economic performance. The second part, Biorefinery for Production of Chemicals, covers the production of bioactive compounds, gallic acid, C4, C5, and C6 compounds, etc., from a variety of substrates. The third part, Biorefinery for Production of Alternative Fuel and Energy, covers sustainable production of bioethanol, biodiesel, and biogas from different types of substrates. The last part of this book discusses sequential utilization of wheat straw, material balance, and biorefinery approach.
The approaches presented in this book will help readers/users from different areas like process engineering and biochemistry to plan integrated and inventive methods to trim down the expenditure of the industrial manufacture process to accomplish cost-effective feasible products in biorefinery.
About the Author: Arindam Kuila is an assistant professor at the Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. Previously, he worked as a research associate at Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Bangalore, India. He gained his PhD from the Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2013 in the area of lignocellulosic biofuel production. He has co-authored 18 peer-reviewed research papers, 7 review papers, edited 4 books, 8 book chapters and filled 5 patents.
Mainak Mukhopadhyay is an assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology, JIS University, Kolkata. Previously, he worked as a research fellow at ONGC Energy Centre, Delhi, India. He gained his PhD from the Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2014. His PhD research was focused on degradation of lignin present in lignocellulosic biomass for the higher production of second-generation bioethanol. His research interests also consist of enzymology, nanobiotechnology, biomass conversion technology. He was awarded a Petrotech Research Fellowship in 2008. In 2016 he was awarded the Early Career Research Award from DST-SERB. He has co-authored 10 peer-reviewed papers, 3 review papers, 10 book chapters and filled 2 patents.
