This book focuses on the use of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the production of biofuels. It describes the current production technologies for different biofuels and their limitations for commercialization, and discusses in detail how nanomaterials could reduce biofuel production costs. After an introduction to biofuels, the book examines biofuels economics and policy; biofuel production processes - advances and limitations; nanotechnology and its energy applications; nanotechnology in biohydrogen production - for cellulases, in algal fuel, and in bioethanol/biobutanol and biodiesel production. It is a valuable resource for researchers and engineers.

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Chapter-1: Introduction to Biofuels

Tatsuji Koizumi

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caraclla, 00153 Rome, Italy Sujatha Raman

Institute for Science & Society (ISS), School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom

Peidong Zhang

College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, China

Pavel Ciaian

European Commission (DG Joint Research Centre), Spain

A. Zabaniotou

Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, University Box 455, PO Box 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

Chapter-2: Biofuels Economics and Policy

Marta Santamaría

CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas Energy Systems Analysis Unit, Av. Complutense, 40, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Gunter Festel

Festel Capital, Mettlenstrasse 14, CH-6363 Fuerigen, Switzerland

Hee Chul Woo

Department of Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea

Razif Harun

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia

Yi-Heng Percival Zhang

Biological Systems Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, 304 Seitz Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Chapter-3: Biofuels production processes: an overview

Bryan R. Moser

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, 1815 N University St, Peoria, IL 61604, USA

Jemaa Mabrouki

United de recherche Materiaux, Energie et Energies Renouvelables, Faculty of Sciences of Gafsa, University of Gafsa, Tunisia

Pornpote Piumsomboon

Fuels Research Center, Department of Chemical Technology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, 254 Phayathai Road, Patumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Simone Bastianoni

Ecodynamics Group, Department of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Siena, Pian dei Mantellini 44, 53100, Siena, Italy

Jadwiga R. Ziolkowska

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 207 Giannini Hall #3310, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310, USA

Lin Li

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 842 W Taylor Street, ERF 2039, Chicago, IL 60607, United States

Richard D. Offeman

Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA, 94710, United States

Chapter-4: Existing production technologies of various biofuels; Advancement and limitations

B. Z. Dholakiya

Department of Applied Chemistry, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Ichchhanath, Surat 395007, Gujarat, India

Guangyi Wang

Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory for Algal Biofuel Technology Development and Application, School of Environment and Energy, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China

Amy Sun

Sandia National Laboratories, Chemical and Biological Systems, P.O. Box 5800 Albuquerque, NM 87185-0734, United States

Jay D. Keasling

Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States

Paula-Bianca Marica

University of Romania

Snehal Ingale

Department of Microbiology, Natubhai V. Patel College of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vallabh-Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India

Chapter-5: Nanotechnology and its energy applications

Qayyum Husain

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India

Zhengyu Jin The State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science a...