Sustainable Biotechnology Sources of Renewable Energy
Nature offers abundant renewable resources that can be used to replace fossil fuels but issues of cost, technology readiness levels, and compatibility with existing distribution networks remain. Cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel are the most immediately ob
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Om V. Singh · Steven P. Harvey Editors
Sustainable Biotechnology Sources of Renewable Energy
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Editors Om V. Singh University of Pittsburgh Bradford, PA 16701 USA
Steven P. Harvey U.S. Army Chemical Biological Center Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010 USA
ISBN 978-90-481-3294-2 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3295-9 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3295-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939329 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
The editors gratefully dedicate this book to Daisaku Ikeda in appreciation for his encouragement to us.
Contents
Heat and Mass Transport in Processing of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sridhar Viamajala, Bryon S. Donohoe, Stephen R. Decker, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael J. Selig, Michael E. Himmel, and Melvin P. Tucker Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaorong Wu, James McLaren, Ron Madl, and Donghai Wang
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Environmentally Sustainable Biofuels – The Case for Biodiesel, Biobutanol and Cellulosic Ethanol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Palligarnai T. Vasudevan, Michael D. Gagnon, and Michael S. Briggs
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Biotechnological Applications of Hemicellulosic Derived Sugars: State-of-the-Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anuj K. Chandel, Om V. Singh, and L.Venkateswar Rao
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Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James J. Valdes and Jerry B. Warner
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Production of Methane Biogas as Fuel Through Anaerobic Digestion . . Zhongtang Yu and Floyd L. Schanbacher
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Waste to Renewable Energy: A Sustainable and Green Approach Towards Production of Biohydrogen by Acidogenic Fermentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Venkata Mohan Bacterial Communities in Various Conditions of the Composting Reactor Revealed by 16S rDNA Clone Analysis and DGGE . . . . . . . Keiko Watanabe, Norio Nagao, Tatsuki Toda, and Norio Kurosawa
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Perspectives on Bioenergy and Biofuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elinor L. Scott, A. Maarten J. Kootstra, and Johan P.M. Sanders
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Perspectives on Chemicals from Renewable Resources . . . . . . . . . . Elinor L. Scott, Johan P.M. Sanders, and Alexander Steinbüchel
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Microbial Lactic Acid Production from Renewable Resources . . . . . . Yebo Li and Fengjie Cui Microbial Production of Potent Phenolic-Antioxidants Through Solid State Fermentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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