Biofuels Refining and Performance [Hardcover]

Learn about the ways to economically manufacture biofuels

Written by a team of international experts,Biofuels Refining andPerformancedescribes the refining processes and issues involvedin producing fuel derived from recently living organisms or theirby-products. Each chapter offers detailed discussion of theory aswell as the actual experimental procedure used to economicallymanufacture biofuels on a commercial scale.Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. Energy and Its Biological Resources
Chapter 2. Photosynthetic Plants as Renewable Energy Sources
Chapter 3. Bioethanol: Market and Production Processes
Chapter 4. Raw Materials to Produce Low-Cost Biodiesel
Chapter 5. Fuel and Physical Properties of Biodiesel Components
Chapter 6. Processing of Vegetable Oils as Biodiesel and Engine Performance
Chapter 7. Ethanol and Methanol as Fuels in Internal Combustion Engines
Chapter 8. Cracking of Lipids for Fuels and Chemicals
Chapter 9. Fuel Cells
Appendix
IndexA. Nag, Ph.D.is with the Department of Chemistryat the Indian Institute of Technology.