TY - BOOK ID - 7912791 TI - Advances in biofuels AU - Pogaku, Ravindra. AU - Sarbatly, Rosalam Hj. PY - 2013 SN - 1489986340 1461462487 1461462495 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Biochemical engineering. KW - Biomass energy. KW - Power (Mechanics). KW - Waste products as fuel. KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Chemical & Materials Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Chemical Engineering KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - Energy recovery from waste KW - Organic waste as fuel KW - Waste as fuel KW - Bio-energy (Biomass energy) KW - Bioenergy (Biomass energy) KW - Biofuels KW - Biological fuels KW - Energy, Biomass KW - Microbial energy conversion KW - Energy. KW - Renewable energy resources. KW - Electric power production. KW - Renewable energy sources. KW - Alternate energy sources. KW - Green energy industries. KW - Renewable and Green Energy. KW - Biochemical Engineering. KW - Energy Technology. KW - Fuel KW - Biomass energy KW - Refuse as fuel KW - Energy conversion KW - Energy crops KW - Microbial fuel cells KW - Waste products as fuel KW - Energy Systems. KW - Bio-process engineering KW - Bioprocess engineering KW - Biochemistry KW - Biotechnology KW - Chemical engineering KW - Alternate energy sources KW - Alternative energy sources KW - Energy sources, Renewable KW - Sustainable energy sources KW - Power resources KW - Renewable natural resources KW - Agriculture and energy KW - Energy systems. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7912791 AB - Biofuels will play a key role in the 21st century as the world faces two critical problems; volatile fuel prices and global climatic changes. Both of these are linked to the overdependence on the fossil fuels: petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Transportation is almost totally dependent on petroleum based fuels such as gasoline, diesel fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, and on natural gas. Despite a significant amount of research into biofuels, the field has not been able to replace fossil fuels. Recent advances will change this scenario. Extracting fuel from biomass has been very expensive (both monetarily and in land usage), time consuming, unusable byproducts, etc. Technology to obtain liquid fuel from non-fossil sources must be improved to be faster, more efficient and more cost-effective. This book will cover the current technology used for a variety of plant types and explore shortcomings with each. ER -