Valorization of Biomass to Value-Added Commodities: Current Trends, Challenges, and Future Prospects

This book presents the most up-to-date technologies for the transformation of biomass into valuable fuels, chemicals, materials, and products. It provides comprehensive coverage of the characterization and fractionation of various types of biomass and details the many challenges that are currently encountered during this process. Divided into two sections, this book discusses timely topics such as the characterization of biomass feedsk, pretreatment and fractionation of biomass, and describ...