(Elsevier) Bioenergy: Biomass to Biofuels examines all current and emerging feedstocks and the advanced processes and technologies enabling the development of their end products, ranging from solid (wood energy, grass energy, and other biomass) to liquid (biodiesel from oil seed crops, algae biofuel, waste-oil, ethanol etc.) and gaseous/electric (biogas, syngas, bioelectricity). Life cycle analysis, Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI), integrated sustainability assessments, environmental, economic, and social issues are all given thorough consideration. Guest authors from industry and academia contribute their expertise to ensure you obtain the most nuanced, comprehensive information. Quizzes, case studies and project ideas will help you to master the technological details included, and connect theory to real-world implementation.
Whether you are a professional entering the field, a student exploring the pathways from biomass to biofuels, or an instructor developing a course on biofuels, this book will educate you about the trade-offs between various feedstocks, provide helpful evaluation criteria for biofuel project proposals, and provide a one-stop information resource on the hottest new advances in the field, all presented in clear language, and within a practical context that will give you a bird’s eye view, from the field to the refinery and beyond.
- The only introductory book to cover solid, liquid and gaseous bioenergy, emphasizing cutting-edge topics such as microbial fuels and biogas
- Integrated coverage from feedstocks to conversion processes to integrated sustainability assessments and economic analysis
- Features case studies for each topic, drawn from real implementation projects
Dr. Anju Dahiya is Lead Biofuels Instructor at the University of Vermont, where her “Biomass to Biofuels” program, developed with support from the US Department of Energy, brings together experts from the biofuels industry, farms and the university faculty to provide hands on experience working with all possible renewable bio-energy options: liquid biofuels (biodiesel including oil seeds; ethanol, algae oil), solid biomass (woody biomass and grass energy), and biogas. Dr. Dahiya is also President and Senior Research Scientist at GSR Solutions LLC, dedicated to advanced biofuel and related byproducts development. Currently she leads one of the three Farm to Fly F2F2 national level initiatives, and oil-heat project for advanced biofuel production supported by US Department of Agriculture. She has been leading several other biofuel projects supported through Department of Energy, VT Sustainable Jobs Fund; Environmental Protection Agency; NASA, EPSCoR; National Science Foundation, EPSCoR for the development of a robust system of algaloil production integrated with dairy farm & industrial waste treatment for cost-efficiency. Her algal biofuel work has been featured in television, radio and print, and she is a frequently invited speaker at conferences, state programs, and workshops. To stimulate the advanced biofuel research at regional level she successfully organized the “Algae for Energy in Northeast” conference at the University of Vermont few years ago, and continues to explore novel ways for realizing the energy goals. READ MORE (Elsevier) and MORE (Amazon) and MORE (Barnes&Noble)
Table of Contents
Bioenergy, 1st Edition
Part I Bioenergy – Biomass to Biofuels: an overview
1. Introduction to Bioenergy
2. Introduction to Biodiesel and Glossary of Terms
3. Bioenergy – Biomass to Biofuels Terms & Definitions
Part II Wood and Grass Biomass as Biofuels
4. Wood BioEnergy
5. Perennial Grass Biomass Production and Utilization
6. Wood and Grass Energy Service Learning Projects and Case Studies
Part III Biomass to Liquid Biofuels
7. Bioenergy Crops
8. On-Farm Oil-Based Biodiesel Production
9. Life Cycle Assessment: The Energy Return on Invested of Biodiesel
10. Energy management during field production practices
11. Straight Vegetable Oil as a Diesel Fuel?
12. Cellulosic Ethanol-Biofuel Beyond Corn
13. Bioheat
14. Advanced biofuel from algae biomass
15. Liquid Biofuels Service Learning Projects and Case Studies
Part IV Gaseous fuels and Bioelectricity
16. Thermal Gasification of Biomass – a Primer
17. Basics of Energy Production through Anaerobic Digestion of Livestock Manure
18. Bioenergy and Anaerobic Digestion
19. Gaseous fuels Service Learning Projects and Case Studies
Part V Conversion pathways for cost-effective biofuel production
20. Biodiesel Production
21. Transesterification
22. Whole Algal Biomass in situ Transesterification to Fatty Acid Methyl Esters as Biofuel Feedstocks
23. How Fuel Ethanol Is Made from Corn
24. Approaches for evaluating biomass bioconversion for fuels and chemicals
25. Reducing Enzyme Costs, Novel Combinations and Advantages of enzymes could lead to improved cost effective Biofuels Production
26. Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass: Oil, Char, and Gas
27. Sustainable Aviation Biofuels – A Development and Deployment Success Model
28. Cutting Edge Biofuel Conversion Technologies to Integrate into Petroleum-based Infrastructure and Integrated Bio-Refineries
29. Fuel conversion Service Learning Projects and Case Studies:
Part VI Biofuels Economics, Sustainability, Environmental and Policy
30. Biofuel Economics and Policy: The Renewable Fuel Standard the Blend Wall, and Future Uncertainties
31. Economics of Ethanol and Biodiesel
32. Fuel Quality Policy
33. Renewable Oil-heat
34. Biodiesel Emissions
35. Health Effects Testing
36. Biodiesel Sustainability Fact Sheet
37. Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Bioenergy
38. Integrated agro-ecological technology networks for food, bioenergy and bio-material production
Part VII Quizzes
Index