Biofuels
Subtitle: global impact on renewable energy, production agriculture and technological advancements
By: Dwight Tomes, Prakash Lakshmanan, David Songstad, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781441971449
Subjects: Biomass energy; Environmental aspects; Economic aspects; Biomass energy industries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical perspectives of biofuels : learning from the past to rediscover the future / David Songstad, Prakash Lakshmanan, John Chen, William Gibbons, Stephen Hughes, and R. Nelson; title: The DOE BioEnergy Science Center, a U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergys Research Center / Russ Miller and Martin Keller; title: Drivers leading to higher food prices : biofuels are not the main factor / Paul Armah, Aaron Archer, and Gregory C. Phillips; title: The economics of current and future biofuels / Ling Tao and Andy Aden; title: A multiple species approach to biomass production from native herbaceous perennial feedstocks / J.L. Gonzalez-Hernandez, G. Sarath, J.M. Stein, V. Owens, K. Gedye, and A. Boe; title: Development and status of dedicated energy crops in the United States / Russell W. Jessup; title: Genetic improvement of C4 grasses as cellulose biofuel feedstocks / Katrin Jakob, Fasong Zhou, and Andrew H. Paterson; title: Short-rotation woody crops for bioenergy and biofuels applications / Maud Hinchee, William Rottmann, Lauren Mullinax, Leslie Pearson, and Narender Nehra; title: The Brazilian experience of sugarcane ethanol industry / Sizuo Matsuoka, Jesus Ferro, and Paulo Arrunda; title: Biofuels : opportunities and challenges in India / Mambully Chandrasekharan Gopinathan and Rajasekaran Sudhakaran; title: Biofuels in China : opportunities and challenges / Feng Wang, Xue-Rong Xing, and Chun-Zhao Liu; title: Genetic modification of lignin biosynthesis for improved biofuel production / Hiroshi Hisano, Rangaraj Nandakumar, and Zeng-Yu Wang; title: Commercial cellulosic ethanol : the role of plant-expressed enzymes / Manuel B. Sainz; title: Integrated biorefineries with engineered microbes and high-value co-products for profitable biofuels production / W.R. Gibbons and S.R. Hughes; title: Biodiesel producion, properties, and feedstocks / Bryan R. Moser.