Advances in Bioenergy and Microfluidic Applications

by Mohammad Reza Rahimpour (Editor), Reza Kamali (Editor), Mohammad Amin Makarem (Editor), Mohammad Karim Dehghan Manshadi (Editor)

Overview

Since fossil fuels suffer from dangerous side effects for the environment and their resources are limited, bioenergy attracted many attentions in various aspects as an alternative solution. Therefore, increasing number of researches are conducted every year and the processes updated frequently to make them more economic and industrially beneficial. Advances in Bioenergy and Microfluidic Applications reviews recent developments in this field and covers various advanced bio-applications, which rarely are reviewed elsewhere. The chapters are started from converting biomass to valuable products and continues with applications of biomass in water-treatment, novel sorbents and membranes, refineries, microfluidic devices and etc. The book covers various routes for gaining bioenergy from biomass. Their composition, carbon contents, heat production capacities and other important factors are reviewed in details in different chapters. Then, the processes for upgrading them directly and indirectly (using metabolic engineering and ultrasonic devices) to various fuels are explained. Each process is reviewed both technically and economically and the product analysis is given. Besides, the effect of various catalysts on increasing selectivity and productivity are taken into account. Biofuels are compared with fossil fuels and challenges in the way of bioenergy production are explained. Moreover, advanced bio-applications in membranes, adsorption, waste water treatment, microfluidic devices and etc. are introduced. This book provides a good insight about such bioprocesses and microfluidics devices for researchers, students, professors and related departments and industries that care about energy resources and curious about recent advances in related methods and technologies. Despite other books which review biomass chemistry and conversion, the current book emphasize on the application of biomass in the mentioned areas. Therefore, one can gain a better and more comprehensive insight by reading the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128216019
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	02/08/2021
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Mohammad Reza Rahimpour is a professor in Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University joint with University of Sydney, Australia 1988. He started his independent career as Assistant Professor in September 1998 at Shiraz University. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour, was a Research Associate at University of California, Davis from 2012 till 2017. During his stay in University of California, he developed different reaction networks and catalytic processes such as thermal and plasma reactors for upgrading of lignin bio-oil to biofuel with collaboration of UCDAVIS. He has been a Chair of Department of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University from 2005 till 2009 and from 2015 till 2020. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour leads a research group in fuel processing technology focused on the catalytic conversion of fossil fuels such as natural gas, and renewable fuels such as bio-oils derived from lignin to valuable energy sources. He provides young distinguished scholars with perfect educational opportunities in both experimental methods and theoretical tools in developing countries to investigate in-depth research in the various field of chemical engineering including carbon capture, chemical looping, membrane separation, storage and utilization technologies, novel technologies for natural gas conversion and improving the energy efficiency in the production and use of natural gas industries.

Reza Kamali is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the Shiraz University; one of the most prestigious universities in Iran. He teaches graduate and under graduate courses and conduct researches in the area of microfluidics, nanofluidics, biofluidics, energy systems, drug delivery, and alternative energy sources. He has over 24 years of academic and industrial experience and served in several public and private boards and panels and he has supervised several undergraduate, masters and PhD students as well as publishing many papers in high ranked journals and conferences. He also has several international collaborations with other international research teams in universities such as Dublin City University, University of Calgary, University of Brighton, and University of Wyoming.

Dr. Mohammad Amin Makarem is a research associate at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He former worked at Shiraz University. His research interests are gas separation and purification, nanofluids, microfluidics, catalyst synthesis, reactor design and green energy. In gas separation, his focus is on experimental and theoretical investigation and optimization of pressure swing adsorption process, and in the gas purification field, he is working on novel technologies such as microchannels. Recently, he has investigated methods of synthesizing bio-template nanomaterials and catalysts. Besides, he has collaborated in writing and editing various books and book-chapters for famous publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley, as well as guest editing journals special issues.

Mohammad Karim Dehghan Manshadi is a research assistant at Shiraz University. His research has focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, biofluidics, and drug delivery and he published several papers in high ranked journals. He also has various international collaborations with Dublin City University and University of Calgary.

Table of Contents

Section I Biomass conversion and upgrading

1. Biomass conversion: general information, chemistry, and processes
2. An overview on pretreatment processes for an effective conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into bioethanol
3. Biofuel purification and upgrading: using novel integrated membrane technology
4. Chemical looping conversion of biomass and biomass-derived feedstocks

Section II Biomass conversion into bioproducts

5. Production of biogas, bio-oil, and biocoal from biomass
6. Production of biodiesel from biomass
7. Thermochemical routes for hydrogen production from biomass
8. Biofuel production from microalgae and process enhancement by metabolic engineering and ultrasound
9. Biomass conversion to biomethanol

Section III Advanced bioenergy applications

10. Biomass as a source of adsorbents for CO2 capture
11. Fuel cells based on biomass
12. Wastewater treatment: employing biomass
13. Microfluidic devices and their bioprocess applications
14. Micro-bioprocessors and their applications in bioenergy production
15. An overview on micropumps, micromixers, and their applications in bioprocess
16. Droplet-based microfluidic platforms and an overview with a focus on application in biofuel generation
17. Application of biomass ash for brick manufacturing
18. Biomass technologies industrialization and environmental challenges

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Covers the fundamental basis of bioenergy, its resources and obtained bio-products, including advanced applications of biomass such as creating novel sorbents and membranes, water-treatment, refineries, and microfluidic devices