Biomass as a Sustainable Energy Source for the Future

Focusing on the conversion of biomass into gas or liquid fuels thebook covers physical pre-treatment technologies, thermal, chemicaland biochemical conversion technologies
* Details the latest biomass characterizationtechniques
* Explains the biochemical and thermochemical conversionprocesses
* Discusses the development of integrated biorefineries, which are similar to petroleum refineries in concept, covering suchtopics as reactor configurations and downstream processing
* Describes how to mitigate the environmental risks whenusing biomass as fuel
* Includes many problems, small projects, samplecalculations and industrial application examples