Bioenergy Engineering: Fundamentals, Methods, Modelling, and Applications

Bioenergy Engineering: Fundamentals, Methods, Modelling, and Applications presents the fundamental principles, recent developments, innovative state-of the-art technologies, challenges, solutions and future perspectives on the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Balancing the scientific and engineering aspects of biofuels production, the book guides readers through the chemical kinetics, modeling, thermodynamics, unit operations and technological advancements in fuel processing from conventional and alternative resources. Each chapter of the book starts with the fundamentals and goes on to assess the latest technologies for the production of renewable fuels on topics. Sections cover biomass utilization, biomass-to-liquid conversion technologies (pyrolysis, liquefaction, solid-state fermentation and submerged fermentation), biomass-to-gas conversion technologies (thermochemical gasification, subcritical and supercritical water gasification, and methanation), gas-to-liquid conversion technologies (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), carbonization, transesterification, organic transformation, carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions, oxidation, reforming, hydrotreating technologies (hydrogenation, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation, hydro dearomatization and hydro demetalization), nanocatalysis and biocatalysis (enzymatic hydrolysis), and much more.

Dr. Krushna Prasad Shadangi is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, India. He did his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at IIT Guwahati, India. His expertise is in the area of biofuels, especially thermo-catalytic and co-conversion of biomass, successive utilization of waste plastic for bio-fuel upgrading, chemical kinetics, and conversion of liquid wastes to fuels, and removal of heavy metals from waste water. He has contributed 14 book chapters in edited books and published twenty-two international peer reviewed SCI journals. He has edited a special Issue in the Journal of Biomass conversion and Biorefinery. Some of his research contributions are also presented in various national and international conferences, inside and outside of India. He is a reviewer for many SCI journals.

Dr. Prakash Kumar Sarangi is a Scientist with specialization in Microbiology at the Central Agricultural University in Imphal, India. Dr. Sarangi’s research is focused on bioprocess engineering, renewable energy, biochemicals, biomaterials and sustainable development. His expertise is in bioconversion of biomass into biofuels, biochemicals and nutraceuticals, as well as environmental waste remediation. He has taken leading roles as the principal investigator in different R&D projects on biomass conversion, biofuel from renewable resources and microbial biodegradation into value-added products. He serves as the Editorial Board member for many international journals, and as a guest editor in Journal of Biomass conversion and Biorefinery, Chemical Engineering and Technology and Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. He has published more than 60 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored in more than 25 book chapters. He is the Editor of three book entitled “Recent Advancements in Biofuels and Bioenergy Utilization”, “Fuel Processing and Energy Utilization” and “Advanced Biotechnology for Sustainable Energy and Products”.

Kaustubha Mohanty has a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and is currently working as a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His key research areas are biofuels, bioseparation, biological wastewater treatment, membrane technology, microalgae biorefinery and biomass pyrolysis. He has published more than 130 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited one book on Membrane Technology & Applications. He has supervised twelve Ph.D students and fifteen more are currently pursuing their Ph.D research under his supervision. He is an Editor of the Journal of Chemistry; Associate Editor of The Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) Series: E; Associate Editor of the Research Journal of Environmental Sciences; Review Editor of Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuel, and Editorial board member of various other journals. He was recently admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India). He is also a Member of the Society of Chemical Industry, London; Member of Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers and Life Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Dr. Irem Deniz currently works at the Department of Bioengineering, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey. Her research areas of interest include bioprocess, enzyme technology, scale-up, biochemical engineering, bioengineering, bioconversion of agricultural raw and waste into value added products, bioenergy/biofuels, microalgae, novel bioreactors and downstream processing. She is one of the Editorial Board Members of Biochemical Engineering Journal and a member of the International Bioprocess Association (IFIBiop, IBA).

Dr. Gollakota is Assistant Professor in the Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received his PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He worked for two years as a post-doc at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom and National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received a post-doc Fellowship from the Ministry ofScience and Technology Taiwan. His current research projects and works are focused towards multidisciplinary areas of transmuted coal fly ash applications in geopolymers, biofuel upgrading catalysis, leaching radioactive isotopes. He is also working on green material synthesis on the basis of waste to energy generation. He has published 20+ articles in top-ranked journals having more than 600 citations and has developed a network of collaborators across four continents.