Written by a team of international experts, Biofuels Refining and Performance describes the refining processes and issues involved in producing fuel derived from recently living organisms or their by-products. Each chapter offers detailed discussion of theory as well as the actual experimental procedure used to economically manufacture biofuels on a commercial scale.
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1 : Energy and Its Biological Resources
Chapter 2 : Photosynthetic Plants as Renewable Energy Sources
Chapter 3 : Bioethanol: Market and Production Processes
Chapter 4 : Raw Materials to Produce Low-Cost Biodiesel
Chapter 5 : Fuel and Physical Properties of Biodiesel Components
Chapter 6 : Processing of Vegetable Oils as Biodiesel and Engine Performance
Chapter 7 : Ethanol and Methanol as Fuels in Internal Combustion Engines
Chapter 8 : Cracking of Lipids for Fuels and Chemicals
Chapter 9 : Fuel Cells
Appendix
Index
