Process Systems Engineering for Biofuels Development

A comprehensive overview of current developments and applications in biofuels production

Process Systems Engineering for Biofuels Development brings together the latest and most cutting-edge research on the production of biofuels. As the first book specifically devoted to process systems engineering for the production of biofuels, Process Systems Engineering for Biofuels Development covers theoretical, computational and experimental issues in biofuels process engineering.

Written for researchers and postgraduate students working on biomass conversion and sustainable process design, as well as industrial practitioners and engineers involved in process design, modeling and optimization, this book is an indispensable guide to the newest developments in areas including:

• Enzyme-catalyzed biodiesel production
• Process analysis of biodiesel production (including kinetic modeling, simulation and optimization)
• The use of ultrasonification in biodiesel production
• Thermochemical processes for biomass transformation to biofuels
• Production of alternative biofuels

In addition to the comprehensive overview of the subject of biofuels found in the Introduction of the book, the authors of various chapters have provided extensive discussions of the production and separation of biofuels via novel applications and techniques.

Editors

Adrián Bonilla-Petriciolet, Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes, Mexico

Gade Pandu Rangaiah, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore and School of Chemical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Series Editor

Christian Stevens, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Waste biomass suitable as feedstock for biofuels production

Chapter 3: Multiscale analysis for the exploitation of bioresources: from reactor design to supply chain analysis

Chapter 4: Challenges in the modeling of thermodynamic properties and phase equilibrium calculations for biofuels process design

Chapter 5: Up-grading of waste oil: a key step in the future of biofuel production

Chapter 6: Production of biojet fuel from waste raw materials: a review

Chapter 7: Computer-Aided Design for Genetic Modulation to Improve Biofuel Production

Chapter 8: Implementation of biodiesel production process under enzyme-catalyzed routes

Chapter 9: Process analysis of biodiesel production – kinetic modeling, simulation, and process design

Chapter 10: Process development, design and analysis of microalgal biodiesel production aided by microwave and ultrasonication

Chapter 11: Thermochemical processes for the transformation of biofuels

Chapter 12: Intensified purification alternative for methyl-ethyl ketone production: economical, environmental, safety and control issues

Chapter 13: Present and future of biofuels

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