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Research and Markets: Biomass to Biofuels: Strategies for Global Industries

Focusing on the key challenges that still impede the realization of the billion-ton renewable fuels vision, this book integrates technological development and business development rationales to highlight the key technological. developments that are necessary to industrialize biofuels on a global scale. Technological issues addressed in this work include fermentation and downstream processing technologies, as compared to current industrial practice and process economics. Business issues that provide the lens through which the technological review is performed span the entire biofuel value chain, from financial mechanisms to fund biotechnology start-ups in the biofuel arena up to large green field manufacturing projects, to raw material farming, collection and transport to the bioconversion plant, manufacturing, product recovery, storage, and transport to the point of sale. Emphasis has been placed throughout the book on providing a global view that takes into account the intrinsic characteristics of various biofuels markets from Brazil, the EU, the US, or Japan, to emerging economies as agricultural development and biofuel development appear undissociably linked

Key Topics Covered:

Foreword. Preface.

Contributors.

Part I: Structure of the Bioenergy Business. 1 Characteristics of Biofuels and Renewable Fuel Standards (Alan C. Hansen, Dimitrios C. Kyritsis, and Chia fon F. Lee). 2 The Global Demand for Biofuels: Technologies, Markets and Policies (Jrgen Scheffran). 3 Biofuel Demand Realization (Stephen R. Hughes and Nasib Qureshi). 4 Advanced Biorefineries for the Production of Fuel Ethanol (Stephen R. Hughes, William Gibbons, and Scott Kohl).

Part II: Diesel from Biomass. 5 Biomass Liquefaction and Gasification (Nicolaus Dahmen, Edmund Henrich, Andrea Kruse, and Klaus Raffelt). 6 Diesel from Syngas (Yong-Wang Li, Jian Xu, and Yong Yang). 7 Biodiesel from Vegetable Oils (Jon Van Gerpen). 8 Biofuels from Microalgae and Seaweeds (Michael Huesemann, Guri Roesjadi, John Benemann, and F. Blaine Metting).

Part III: Ethanol and Butanol. 9 Improvements in Corn to Ethanol Production Technology Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Vijay Singh, David B. Johnston, Kent D. Rausch, and M.E. Tumbleson). 10 Advanced Technologies for Biomass Hydrolysis and Saccharification Using Novel Enzymes (Margret E. Berg Miller, Jennifer M. Brulc, Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed, Harry J. Flint, and Bryan A. White). 11 Mass Balances and Analytical Methods for Biomass Pretreatment Experiments (Bruce S. Dien). 12 Biomass Conversion Inhibitors and In Situ Detoxification (Z. Lewis Liu and Hans P. Blaschek). 13 Fuel Ethanol Production From Lignocellulosic Raw Materials Using Recombinant Yeasts (Grant Stanley and Barbel Hahn-Hagerdal). 14 Conversion of Biomass to Ethanol by Other Organisms (Siqing Liu). 15 Advanced Fermentation Technologies (Masayuki Inui, Alain A. Verts and Hideaki Yukawa). 16 Advanced Product Recovery Technologies (Thaddeus C Ezeji and Yebo Li). 17 Clostridia and Process Engineering for Energy Generation (Nasib Qureshi and Hans P. Blaschek).

Part IV: Hydrogen, methane, and methanol. 18 Hydrogen Generation by Microbial Cultures (Anja Hemschemeier, Katrin Mllner, Thilo Rhle, and Thomas Happe). 19 Engineering Photosynthesis for H2 Production from H2O: Cyanobacteria as Design Organisms (Nadine Waschewski, Gabor Bernat, and Matthias Ragner). 20 Production and Utilization of Methane Biogas as Renewable Fuel (Zhongtang Yu, Mark Morrison, and Floyd L. Schanbacher). 21 Methanol Production and Utilization (Gregory A. Dolan).

Part Five: Perspectives. 22 Enhancing Primary Raw Materials for Biofuels (Takahisa Hayashi, Rumi Kaida, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Masaru Ohme-Takagi, Nobuyuki Nishikuba, Shin-ichiro Kidou, and Kouki Yoshida). 23 Axes of Development in Chemical and Process Engineering for Converting Biomass to Energy (Alain A. Verts). 24 Financing Strategies for Industrial-Scale Biofuel Production and Technology Development Start-Ups (Sarit Soccary Ben Yochanan and Alain A. Verts).

Index.

Author:

Dr Alain Vertes is based in the Microbiology Research Group at the Research Institute of Innovative Technology (RIIT) in Kyoto, Japan. Dr Vertes received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in 2004 received his MBA as a Sloan Fellow from the London Business School. His industrial experience includes working with Mitsubishi, Eli Lilly and in Nov 2001 he joined RIIT as a Senior Researcher. In May 2002 he was appointed Portfolio Head, Strategic Alliances for Pfizer in France and took up the position of Pharmaceuticals, Director, Strategic Alliances at Pfizer UK in October 2004. In April 2005 he returned to the Research Institute of Innovative Technology in Kyoto where he is a Senior Research working on biotechnology start-ups in the field of energy and chemical production.

Dr Nasib Qureshi received his first Ph.D. in 1985 in Fermentation Technology from Bombay University, and a further Ph.D. in 1997 in Chemical Superior Performance Awards National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (USDA) 2004, 2005, 2006; He has served as Editor for the World Journal of Microbiology in 2006 and has also been an editorial board member for Journal of Industrial Microbiology (2001-present), World Journal of Microbiology (2001-2003), Energy Sources (2001-present), and Renewable Energy (2001-present). He has published over 90 refereed papers/review articles and five book chapters.

Professor H.P. Blaschek, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois. He obtained his B.Sc. from Rutgers College in 1974, and MSc and PhD in Food Microbiology. He joined the faculty in the Dept of Food Science at the University of Illinois in 1980 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986 and full Professor in 1991. He teaches Food and Industrial Microbiology, Advanced Food Microbiology, and Food Microbiology for Non-Majors and He is currently a member of the College of ACES Academy of Teaching Excellence and served as secretary to the ACES Executive Committee. He also has served as Panel Manager for the USDA NRI competitive grants program in the Value-added non-foods and biofuels areas.

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