Biofuels: Meeting the Energy and Environmental Challenges of the Transportation Sector

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Editions TECHNIP, 2012 - 355 pages
Changes in the world energy context, the increasing awareness of the environmental stakes and the development of research on the production of second and third generation biofuels revealed a clear need to write a new book which updates and complements all technical, financial and environmental aspects of Les Biocarburants—État des lieux, perspectives et enjeux du développement (Biofuels—Current status, outlook and development stakes) published in 2006. This book provides a detailed state of the art of the first generation biofuel production technologies. It describes the new «second generation» pathways which use lignocellulosic biomass as raw material and are starting to find industrial applications, thereby reducing the competition between the food resource and the use of agricultural materials for energy purposes. It also provides a technical update on the algaeto-energy pathway (third generation) and the production of methane and hydrogen by biochemical pathways. The book arrives at exactly the right time to renew the interest in biofuels, including for air transport, and provide an insight on the technological research and development axes currently being investigated. It is intended for transport companies, refiners, forestry companies, the agricultural and agribusiness sectors as well as the public authorities, students, university teachers and researchers.
 

Table des matières

3
7
1
11
2
14
1
20
production of biomass
23
4
28
6
44
Chapter 2
51
Continuous heterogeneous catalysis processes
135
8
146
11
155
Chapter 4
173
References
197
2
222
3
230
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247

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53
Production of ethanol from sugar beet
64
4
83
Ethanol fermentation parameters
93
7
96
54
104
References
113
2
119
Methanol
128
4
253
143
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CONVERSION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS BY BIOCHEMICAL
275
3
307
Chapter 7
313
1
319
APPENDIX 1
341
APPENDIX 2
347
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À propos de l'auteur (2012)

Daniel Ballerini is an engineer from IFP School and engineer-PhD graduate from the P&M Curie University-Paris 6. He has been head of Biotechnology and Biomass Chemistry Department at IFP Energies Nouvelles.

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