This book explores and summarizes the recent innovations in emerging materials for technological developments of biofuels. It explains synthesis paths under the controlled strategy, characterizations, functional modifications, and applications of various potential emerging materials including applications
This book explores and summarizes the recent innovations in emerging materials for technological developments of biofuels. It explains synthesis paths under the controlled strategy, characterizations, functional modifications, and applications of various potential emerging materials.
Emerging Materials for Biofuel Developments covers the application of emerging materials in different competent biological feedstocks conversion routes. It highlights the significance of emerging materials in overcoming challenges and enhancing biofuel technologies' efficiency, sustainability, circular economy, feasibility, and prospects. The book:
- Includes synthesis and characterization of emerging materials for biofuels
- Reviews processing technologies of biomaterials for biofuels
- Discusses applications in energy generation, transportation and industrial operations
- Explores commercialization of biofuels
- Examines future opportunities in biofuel technology developments
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in chemical, bioprocess, and environmental engineering.
PART I Synthesis, Characterization and Functional Modification of
Metal-Based Nanomaterials for Biofuel Developments
1. Advanced Nanomaterials
for Biofuel Production and Their Future Opportunities
2. Chemical Synthesis
and Characterization of Emerging Metallic Nanomaterials for Biofuel
Production
3. Green Synthesis and Characterization of Emerging Metallic
Nanomaterials for Biofuel Production
4. Chemical Synthesis and
Characterization of Emerging Metal-Oxide Nanomaterials for Biofuel Production
5. Green Synthesis and Characterization of Emerging Metal-Oxide Nanomaterials
for Biofuel Production
6. Emerging Metal-Oxide Nanomaterials for Biofuel
Processing
7. Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Biofuel Production and
Processing
8. Preparation and Characterization of Magnetic Nanomaterials for
Biofuel Production and Processing PART II Potential Conversion Routes and
Biomasses for Biofuel Developments Using Emerging Nanomaterials
9. Emerging
Nanomaterials for Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels
10.
Emerging Nanomaterials for Physicochemical Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels
11. Use of Nanomaterials in Biofuel Production from Algal Sources
12.
Application of Nanomaterials in Biofuel Production from Agricultural Residues
13. Role of Nanomaterials in Biofuel Production from Potential Domestic
Wastes
14. Hydrochars as Emerging Energy Sources and Their Processing: A
Sustainable Approach to Energy Generation
15. Developing Biomass for Biofuel
Production and Its Future Opportunities
16. Potential Feedstocks, Preparation
Routes, and Characterization of Biochar for Biofuel Applications
17. Role of
Nanomaterials in Biofuel Production from Industrial Wastes
18. Biochar as a
Greener Catalyst for Biofuel Production
19. Functional Modification of
Biochar for Enhanced Biofuel Conversion
20. Engineered Biochar Preparation
and Its Application in Biofuel Technologies
21. Recent Improvements in Nano
Additives for Biofuel Processing PART III Circular Economy, Challenges and
Future Opportunities of Emerging Nanomaterials for Biofuel Developments
22.
Circular Economy Strategies in the Synthesis of Emerging Nanomaterials for
Biofuel Production
23. Biorefineries, Bioeconomy, Circular Bioeconomy, and
Advanced Bioeconomy in the Sustainable Production of Enhanced Biofuels and
Nanomaterials for Energy Storage
24. Challenges and Future Perspectives of
Nanomaterials in Biodiesel Development Utilizing Supercritical Reactor
Technology
Selvakumar Periyasamy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2019. Dr. Selvakumar Periyasamy has over eight years of teaching experience across undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs, along with more than a decade of research expertise in the fields of Bioenergy, Nanotechnology, Biochemical Engineering, and Environmental Biotechnology.
Eduardo Alberto LópezMaldonado holds a BSc. in Chemical Engineering (2009) and a PhD. in Chemical Sciences (2012) from the National Technological Institute of MexicoTijuana, Center for Graduates and Research in Chemistry. His doctoral thesis, a groundbreaking piece of applied scientific research in collaboration with a semiconductor company in Tijuanas industrial zone, earned him the prestigious Mexican Society of Electrochemistrys Best Doctoral Thesis award in 2013. The same year, Dr. LópezMaldonado joined the research staff at the Center for Research and Technological Development in Electrochemistry (CIDETEQ) S.C., Tijuana Branch, where he began his research career. His work there involved projects centered on the extraction and properties of natural biopolymers as coagulating, flocculating, and chelating agents.
R. Balachandran is a Professor at Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. Over three decades, he has vast experience teaching various Material Science and Engineering courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was awarded PhD (Engineering) in 2013 from Multimedia University, Malaysia. In his research areas so far, he has secured six research funds in Malaysia and Ethiopia as project leader / principal investigator and one Technology Transfer Project Grant in Ethiopia.
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