Book Description:
The principle fuel used as a petrol substitute for road transport vehicles is bioethanol. Bioethanol fuel is mainly produced by the sugar fermentation process, although it can also be manufactured by the chemical process of reacting ethylene with steam. The main sources of sugar required to produce ethanol come from fuel or energy crops. These crops are grown specifically for energy use and include corn, maize and wheat crops, waste straw, willow and popular trees, sawdust, reed canary grass, cord grasses, jerusalem artichoke, myscanthus and sorghum plants. Ethanol or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH) is a clear colourless liquid, it is biodegradable, low in toxicity and causes little environmental pollution if spilt. Ethanol burns to produce carbon dioxide and water. Ethanol is a high octane fuel and has replaced lead as an octane enhancer in petrol. By blending ethanol with gasoline we can also oxygenate the fuel mixture so it burns more completely and reduces polluting emissions. This new and important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in this promising field.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Lignocellulosic Biomass Pretreatment for Bioethanol Production;pp. 1-48
(Yi Zheng, Ruihong Zhang, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, CA)

Meeting EU Bioethanol Targets Through Improvements in Wheat Grain Quality and Productivity in Europe;pp. 49-73
(Richard M.Weightman and Daniel R. Kindred, ADAS, Centre for Sustainable Crop Management, Cambridgeshire, UK)

Development of Extractive Processes and Robust Mathematical Model for Bioethanol Production;pp. 75-92
(Rafael Ramos de Andrade, Elmer Ccopa Rivera, Daniel I. Pires Atala, Francisco Maugeri Filho, Rubens Maciel Filho, Aline Carvalho da Costa, Laboratory of Optimization, Design and Advanced Control, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil, and others)

Extremely Thermophilic Enzymes: Their Utilization in Agricultural Waste Conversion for Bioethanol Production;pp. 93-106
(Alessandra Morana, Luisa Maurelli, Francesco La Cara, Mosè Rossi, Istituo di Biochimica delle Proteine, Naples, Italy, and others)


Bioethanol from Starch or Sugar: Energy Security and Life Cycle Environmental Impacts;pp. 107-117
(L. Reijnders, IBED, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Analysis of Energy Consumption of Distillation Options to Obtain High-Purity Bioethanol;pp. 119-134
(Salvador Hernández, Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández, Mariana del Pilar Santamaría-Rivera, Héctor Hernández-Escoto, Claudia Gutiérrez-Antonio, Abel Briones-Ramírez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus Guanajuato, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, , Guanajuato, Mexico, and others)

Methanol Content in Biodiesel Estimated by Flash Point and Electrical Properties;pp. 135-146
(S. D. Romano, P. A. Sorichetti, I. Buesa Pueyo, Grupo de Energías Renovables, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and others)

Corn Ethanol Allure Plummets;pp. 147-150
(Dr. David Pimentel, Professor of Insect Ecology & Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Entomology and Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University)

Biofuels;pp. 151-164
(Dianne Ahmann, John R. Dorgam)

Advanced Bioethanol Technology;pp. 165-167
(United States Department Of Energy)

Fuel Ethanol: Background and Public Policy Issues;pp. 169-183
(Brent D. Yacobucci, Jasper Womach)


Index