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Preface ix The Editor xi Contributors xiii Section I General Chapter 1 Plant-Based Biofuels: An Introduction Reeta Rani Singhania Binod Parameswaran Ashok Pandey 3 Chapter 2 World Biofuel Scenario Muhammed F. Demirbas 13 Chapter 3 Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Liquids and Gaseous Fuels Hari Bhagwan Goyal Rakesh Chandra Saxena Diptendu Seal 29 Chapter 4 Production of Biofuels with Special Emphasis on Biodiesel Ayhan Demirbas 45 Section II Production of Bioethanol Chapter 5 Fuel Ethanol: Current Status and Outlook Edgard Gnansounou 57 Chapter 6 Bioethanol from Biomass: Production of Ethanol from Molasses Velusamy Senthilkumar Paramasamy Gunasekaran 73 Chapter 7 Bioethanol from Starchy Biomass: Part I Production of Starch Saccharifying Enzymes Subhash U Nair Sumitra Ramachandran Ashok Pandey 87 Chapter 8 Bioethanol from Starchy Biomass: Part II Hydrolysis and Fermentation Sriappareddy Tamalampudi Hideki Fukuda Akihiko Kondo 105 Chapter 9 Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Part I Pretreatment of the Substrates Ryali Seeta Laxman Anil H. Lachke 121 Chapter 10 Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Part II Production of Cellulases and Hemicellulases Rajeev K Sukumaran 141 Chapter 11 Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Part III Hydrolysis and Fermentation Ramakrishnan Anish Mala Rao 159 Section III Production of Biodiesel Chapter 12 Biodiesel: Current and Future Perspectives Milford A. Hanna Loren Isom 177 Chapter 13 Biodiesel Production Technologies and Substrates Arumugam Sakunthalai Ramadhas 183 Chapter 14 Lipase-Catalyzed Preparation of Biodiesel Rachapudi Badari Narayana Prasad Bhamidipati Venkata Surya Koppeswara Rao 199 Chapter15 Biodiesel Production With Supercritical Fluid Technologies Shiro Saka Eiji Minami 213 Chapter 16 Palm Oil Diesel Production and Its Experimental Test on a Diesel Engine Md. Abul Kalam Masjuki Hj Hassan Ramang bin Hajar Muhd Syazly bin Yusuf Muhammad Redzuan bin Umar Indra Mahlia 225 Chapter 17 Biodiesel from Rice Bran Oil Yi-Hsu Ju Andrea C. M. E. Rayat 241 Chapter 18 Biodiesel Production Using Karanja (Pongamia pinnata) and Jatropha (Jatropha curcas) Seed Oil Lekha Charan Meher Satya Narayan Naik Malaya Kumar Naik Ajay Kumar Dalai 255 Chapter 19 Biodiesel Production from Mahua Oil and Its Evaluation in an Engine Sukumar Puhan Nagarajan Vedaraman Boppana Venkata Ramabrahmam 267 Chapter 20 Biodiesel Production from Rubber Seed Oil Arumugam Sakunthalai Ramadhas Simon Jayaraj Chandrashekaran Muraleedharan 281 Index 293
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reviewed Handbook of Plant-Based Biofuels on June 29, 2014
Handbook of Plant-Based Biofuels
I first became familiar with Robert Zubrin through the Mars Direct plan, advanced in his 1992 The Case for Mars, which would see a highly economical spacecraft travel to Mars where crew members would live and work for a year and a half, this extended stay and the return flight enabled by the exploitation of Martian resources in situ. As someone on my friends list who reviewed the book said (and my apologies if I've got the phrasing wrong), the plan seems to be approximately technically correct but really doesn't supply a convincing reason as to why someone would like to travel to Mars, never mind (as Zubrin suggests) colonize it. Still, it was an entertaining enough read when I picked it up as a teenager.
I picked up Zubrin's latest book, Energy Victory, with similar hopes. Most of the chapters were inspired by the reasonably informed technolibertarianism that I'd expected, although Zubrin did seem to be upset about hydrogen fuels and electric cars, did seem to be strongly in support of ethanol, and did make references the the profits earned by states like Saudi Arabia without investments in human capital. It was only when I neared the end that things took a decidedly odd turn, as Zubrin began talking about how developing alternative fuels was essential for the West because the Muslim East and its ideologies and religion failed to nurture individualism and freedom nearly as fully in the Judeo-Chrstrian West and how this belief system oppositional to us incorporates Baal and Marduk and how we're facing--in Islam as a whole or in Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, I honestly got confused at this point--must defeat by these malign forces by developing alternative fuels so as to deprive fundamentalists of money and--
I don't go looking for this kind of stuff. Really. All I was looking for in Energy Victory was a mildly provocative book-length treatise on energy futures directed towards a popular audience. This kind of conspiracy-theory geopolitics really is everywhere.
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