Overview
- Provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the pretreatment
- of lignocellulosic biomass for production of biofuel and value-added products
- Discusses the effectiveness of different pretreatment strategies
- Highlights the main challenges and possible ways to make these technologies a reality for the biofuel industry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry for Sustainability (GREENCHEMIST)
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The book describes the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for biomass-to-biofuel conversion processes, which is an important step in increasing ethanol production for biofuels. It also highlights the main challenges and suggests possible ways to make these technologies feasible for the biofuel industry. The biological conversion of cellulosic biomass into bioethanol is based on the chemical and biological breakdown of biomass into aqueous sugars, for example using hydrolytic enzymes. The fermentable sugars can then be further processed into ethanol or other advanced biofuels. Pretreatment is required to break down the lignin structure and disrupt the crystalline structure of cellulose so that the acids or enzymes can easily access and hydrolyze the cellulose. Pre-treatment can be the most expensive process in converting biomass to fuel, but there is great potential for improving the efficiency and lowering costs through further research and development. This book is aimed at academics and industrial practitioners who are interested in the higher production of ethanol for biofuels.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Pratima Bajpai has a Ph.D from the National Sugar Institute
(NSI), Kanpur, India. She is currently a technical consultant in the pulp and paper industry and
has over 30 years’ experience
in research at the National Sugar Institute Kanpur, the University
of Saskatchewan, the University
of Western Ontario in Canada, and the Thapar
Center for Industrial Research and Development in India. She has also worked as
a visiting professor at
the University of Waterloo, Canada, and visiting scientist at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Dr. Bajpai’s main areas of expertise are
industrial biotechnology, pulp and paper, and environmental biotechnology. She is a recognized expert in industrial biotechnology and has contributed immensely to the field. She is currently actively engaged in
commercializing biotechnological processes for the pulp and paper industry.
Her research accomplishments have resulted in over 150 publications in respected international journalsand conference proceedings. She has also
written several advanced technical books on
environmental and biotechnological aspects of pulp and paper, which have been
published by leading publishers – PIRA International, UK; Springer, Germany;
Miller Freeman USA, John Wiley, and Elsevier Science. She has also
contributed chapters to a number of books and encyclopedias,
obtained 11 patents, and has written several technical reports. In addition, she has implemented several
processes in Indian paper mills.
Dr. Bajpai is an active member of the American Society of Microbiologists and
is a reviewer for many
international research journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Biofuel Production
Authors: Pratima Bajpai
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0687-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0686-9Published: 14 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0687-6Published: 08 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 87
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology