Sustainable Biofuels Development in India
This book will provide assistance to the broad range of readers involved in the crude oil import and production; renewable energy production; biomass analysis and bioconversion; greenhouse gas emissions; techno-economic analysis and government policies fo
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ainable Biofuels Development in India
Sustainable Biofuels Development in India
Anuj K. Chandel • Rajeev K. Sukumaran Editors
Sustainable Biofuels Development in India
Editors Anuj K. Chandel Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (Sugarcane Technology Centre, CTC) Piracicaba, Fazenda Santo Antonio Santo Antonio, Sao Paulo Brazil
Rajeev K. Sukumaran Centre for Biofuels Microbial Processes & Technology Division CSIR, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala India
ISBN 978-3-319-50217-5 ISBN 978-3-319-50219-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50219-9
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Quotes for Biofuels Book
The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may in the course of time become as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of present time Rudolf Diesel in 1912 The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumac out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust—almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years. Henry Ford in 1925
Foreword
Biomass (food and feed crops and other grassy plants, wood, and algae) is available in abundance on Earth in a variety of forms that can be converted into fuels, food/ feed, chemicals, and biomaterials. These conversions can be brought out by employing physical, chemical, thermal, biological, and biotechnological
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