Biomass to Biofuels

Strategies for Global Industries

Nasib Qureshi editor Alain A Vertes editor Hideaki Yukawa editor Hans P Blaschek editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:15th Jan '10

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Biomass to Biofuels cover

Focusing on the key challenges that still impede the realization of the billion-ton renewable fuels vision, this book integrates technological development and business development rationales to highlight the key technological.developments that are necessary to industrialize biofuels on a global scale. Technological issues addressed in this work include fermentation and downstream processing technologies, as compared to current industrial practice and process economics. Business issues that provide the lens through which the technological review is performed span the entire biofuel value chain, from financial mechanisms to fund biotechnology start-ups in the biofuel arena up to large green field manufacturing projects, to raw material farming, collection and transport to the bioconversion plant, manufacturing, product recovery, storage, and transport to the point of sale. Emphasis has been placed throughout the book on providing a global view that takes into account the intrinsic characteristics of various biofuels markets from Brazil, the EU, the US, or Japan, to emerging economies as agricultural development and biofuel development appear undissociably linked.

"The Physical quality of Wiley's books is never in doubt, and this volume is no different.  It proclaims itself as ‘a valuable handbook for scientists and policy makers working in the biofuels industry,' a fairly true assertion." (Enagri eMagazine, July 2010)

ISBN: 9780470513125

Dimensions: 250mm x 176mm x 37mm

Weight: 1106g

584 pages