Advances in 2nd Generation of Bioethanol Production

Advances in 2nd Generation of Bioethanol Production presents a comprehensive overview of technologies and strategies for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. Topics covered include sustainable production, environmental and economic benefits, and the main hurdles for upscaling and achieving commercial viability. The book assesses current biomass conversion technologies, their readiness level for commercial production, feedstock composition and pretreatment, the advances and challenges of bioprocessing, hydrolysis technologies, and simultaneous fermentation of pentose and hexose. Finally, it presents the current status and bottlenecks for industrial production of bioethanol, as well as its future prospects.

Practitioners in the industry will benefit from the information on working principles, design and control of the bioethanol production process, learning about areas where technology innovation and investment should be placed. In addition, graduate students and researchers new to the field will find this to be a key-resource on the fundamentals of bioethanol and bioproducts production from lignocellulosic biomass.