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Biofuel Production - Recent Developments and Prospects

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Marco Aurelio Dos Santos Bernardes
Marco Aurelio Dos Santos Bernardes

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology,
Luxembourg

Published15 September 2011

Doi10.5772/959

ISBN978-953-307-478-8

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-4435-9

Copyright year2011

Number of pages608

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1. Abiotic Stress Diagnosis via Laser Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Analysis in Plants for Biofuel

By Artur S. Gouveia-Neto, Elias Arcanjo da Silva-Jr, Patrícia C. Cunha, Ronaldo A. Oliveira-Filho, Luciana M. H. Silva, Ernande B. da Costa, Terezinha J. R. Câmara and Lilia G. Willadino

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2. Is It Possible to Use Biodiesel as a Reference Material?

By Dalni Malta do E. Santo Filho, José Renato R. Siqueira, Renata Martins H. Borges, Claudio Roberto da C. Rodrigues, Alex Pablo F. Barbosa, José Júlio P. dos Santos Júnior and Roberto G. Pereira

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3. First Generation Biodiesel

By Guomin Xiao and Lijing Gao

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4. Bioethanol – What Has Brazil Learned About Yeasts Inhabiting the Ethanol Production Processes from Sugar Cane?

By Maria da Graça Stupiello Andrietta, Sílvio Roberto Andrietta and Érika Nogueira Andrade Stupiello

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5. Ethanol Production in Brazil: The Industrial Process and Its Impact on Yeast Fermentation

By Luiz Carlos Basso, Thiago Olitta Basso and Saul Nitsche Rocha

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6. Ethanol Reforming in the Dynamic Plasma - Liquid Systems

By Valeriy Ya. Chernyak, Eugen V. Martysh, Sergei V. Olszewski, Vitalij V. Yukhymenko, Sergei M. Sidoruk, Oleg A. Nedybaliuk, Iryna V. Prysiazhnevych, Anatolij I. Shchedrin and Dmitry S. Levko

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7. Developing Organisms for Consolidated Bioprocessing of Biomass to Ethanol

By Willem H. van Zyl, Riaan den Haan and Daniel C. la Grange

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10. Detoxification of Lignocellulosic Hydrolysates for Improved Bioethanol Production

By Anuj K. Chandel, Silvio Silvério da Silva and Om V. Singh

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12. Kinetic Modelling of Dilute Acid Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass

By P. Lenihan, A. Orozco, E. O’Neill, M.N.M. Ahmad, D.W. Rooney, C. Mangwandi and G.M. Walker

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13. Trichoderma reesei: A Fungal Enzyme Producer for Cellulosic Biofuels

By Bernhard Seiboth, Christa Ivanova and Verena Seidl-Seiboth

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15. Innovative Biological Solutions to Challenges in Sustainable Biofuels Production

By Xiaohan Yang, Ting Li, David Weston, Abhijit Karve, Jessy L. Labbe, Lee E. Gunter, Poornima Sukumar, Anne Borland, Jin-Gui Chen, Stan D. Wullschleger, Timothy J. Tschaplinski and Gerald A. Tuskan

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16. Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Biofuels

By Armando T. Quitain, Shunsaku Katoh and Motonobu Goto

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19. DMF - A New Biofuel Candidate

By Guohong Tian, Ritchie Daniel and Hongming Xu

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20. Biofuels: From Hopes to Reality

By Carioca J.O.B., Friedrich, H. and Ehrenberger, S.

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