"Biofuel Production: Recent Developments and Prospects" ed. by Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes

This book aspires to be a comprehensive summary of current biofuels issues and thereby contribute to the understanding of this important topic.

Themes including biofuels development efforts, their implications for the food industry, current and future biofuels crops, the successful Brazilian ethanol program, insights of the first, second, third and fourth biofuel generations, advanced biofuel production techniques, related waste treatment, emissions and environmental impacts, water consumption, produced allergens and toxins.

Contents
Part 1. Biodiesel
Abiotic Stress Diagnosis via Laser Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Analysis in Plants for Biofuel
Is It Possible to Use Biodiesel as a Reference Material?
First Generation Biodiesel
Part 2. Bioethanol
Bioethanol - What Has Brazil Learned About Yeasts Inhabiting the Ethanol Production Processes from Sugar Cane
Ethanol Production in Brazil: The Industrial Process and Its Impact on Yeast Fermentation
Ethanol Reforming in the Dynamic Plasma - Liquid Systems
Developing Organisms for Consolidated Bioprocessing of Biomass to Ethanol
Latest Frontiers in the Biotechnologies for Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass
Part 3. Cellulosic Biofuel
Novel Approaches to Improve Cellulase Biosynthesis for Biofuel Production - Adjusting Signal Transduction Pathways in the Biotechnological Workhorse Trichoderma
Detoxification of Lignocellulosic Hydro lysates for Improved Bioethanol Production
Biofuel From Cellulosic Mass with Incentive for Feed Industry Employing Thermophilic Microbes
K inetic Mode 11 ing of D i lute Ac id Hydro lys is of L ignoce I lu los ic B io mass
Trichoderma reesei: A Fungal Enzyme Producer for Cellulosic Biofuels
Part 4. Biofuels Generalities
Application of Response Surface Methodology to Optimize Alkali Concentration, Corn Stover Particle Size, and Extruder Parameters for Maximum Sugar Recovery
Innovative Biological Solutions to Challenges in Sustainable Biofuels Production
Micro wave-Assisted Synthesis of Biofuels
Fertilizer Potential of Biofuel Byproducts
The Past, Present, and Future of Biofuels - Biobutanol as Promising Alternative
DMF - A New Biofuel Candidate
Biofuels: From Hopes to Reality
Bioproduction of Hydrogen with the Assistance of Electrochemical Technology
A Genetic-Fuzzy System for Modelling of Selected Processes in Diesel Engine Fuelled by Biofuels
Determination of the Impact of Biogas on the Engine Oil Condition Using a Sensor Based on Corrosiveness