"Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels" ed. by Eduardo Jacob-Lopes and Leila Queiroz Zepka

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the possibilities for production and use of bioenergy, biofuels, and coproducts. Issues related to environment, food, and energy present serious challenges to the success and stability of nations.

The challenge to provide energy to a rapidly increasing global population has made it imperative to find new technological routes to increase production of energy while also considering the biosphere's ability to regenerate resources. The bioenergy and biofuels are resources that may provide solutions to these critical challenges. Divided into 25 discreet parts, the book covers topics on characterization, production, and uses of bioenergy, biofuels, and coproducts.
The book provides an insight into future developments in each field and extensive bibliography. It will be an essential resource for researchers and academic and industry professionals in the energy field.

Contents
Preface
1 Introductory Chapter: Life Cycle Assessment as a Fundamental Tool to Define the Biofuel Performance
2 Cell Wall Proteomics as a Means to Identify Target Genes to Improve Second‐Generation Biofuel Production
3 Advances in the Application of Spectroscopic Techniques in the Biofuel Area over the Last Few Decades
4 Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry as a Tool of Biofuel Quantification
5 Chromatographic Methods Applied to the Characterization of Bio-Oil from the Pyrolysis of Agro-Industrial Biomasses
6 Perceptions on Internal and External Factors Impacting the U.S. Nonfood Advanced Biofuel Industry
7 The Biofuel Crops in Global Warming Challenge: Carbon Capture by Corn, Sweet Sorghum and Switchgrass Biomass Grown for Biofuel Production in the USA
8 Theoretical Considerations for Economics of Second- and Third- Generation Biofuels
9 Emerging Green Technologies for Biodiesel Production
10 Biogas, Biodiesel and Bioethanol as Multifunctional Renewable Fuels and Raw Materials
11 Potential of Cellulosic Ethanol to Overcome Energy Crisis in Pakistan
12 Jatropha Biofuel Industry: The Challenges
13 Review of Continuous Fermentative Hydrogen-Producing Bioreactors from Complex Wastewater
14 Bifunctional Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biodiesel Production using Low Cost Feedstocks: A Future Perspective
15 Role of Mass-Transfer Interfacial Area in the Biodiesel Production Performance of Acid-Catalyzed Esterification
16 Biodiesel Compatibility with Elastomers and Steel
17 Biofuel Additives: Conversion of Glycerol with Benzyl Alcohol over SBA‐15 with Sulfonic Acid Groups
18 Thermodynamic Properties of Propanol and Butanol as Oxygenate Additives to Biofuels
19 Photocatalytic Reforming of Lignocelluloses, Glycerol, and Chlorella to Hydrogen
20 Renewable Hydrocarbons from Triglyceride's Thermal Cracking
21 Biogasification of Horse Dung Using a Cylindrical Surface Batch Biodigester
22 Refractory Materials for Biofuel Boilers
23 Power Form Agripellets
24 SWOT Analysis Applied to Wheat Straw Utilization as a Biofuel in Mexico
25 Use of Corn Dried Distillers Grains (DDGS) in Feeding of Ruminants