Bioenergy Systems for the Future

Bioenergy Systems for the Future: Prospects for Biofuels and Biohydrogen examines the current advances in biomass conversion technologies for biofuels and biohydrogen production, including their advantages and challenges for real-world application and industrial-scale implementation.

In its first part, the book explores the use of lignocellulosic biomass and agricultural wastes as feedstock, also addressing biomass conversion into biofuels, such as bioethanol, biodiesel, bio-methane, and bio-gasoline. The chapters in Part II cover several different pathways for hydrogen production, from biomass, including bioethanol and bio-methane reforming and syngas conversion. They also include a comparison between the most recent conversion technologies and conventional approaches for hydrogen production.

Part III presents the status of advanced bioenergy technologies, such as applications of nanotechnology and the use of bio-alcohol in low-temperature fuel cells. The role of advanced bioenergy in a future bioeconomy and the integration of these technologies into existing systems are also discussed, providing a comprehensive, application-oriented overview that is ideal for engineering professionals, researchers, and graduate students involved in bioenergy.

Autorentext
Francesco Dalena, degree in Chemistry with Ph.D. on Translational medicine” at the Chemistry Department of the University of Calabria (Italy), is expert in "Chemistry of advanced materials". His research field ranges from the bioenergy sector to inorganic membrane reactors, to chemical kinetics and to the chemistry of artistic masterpiece. He is editor of various books, such as: "Hydrogen Production, Separation and Purification for Energy", 2016, IET Pub.; "Alcohol and bioalcohol: characteristic, proprieties and use", 2014, Nova Pub., Methanol: Science and Engineering”, Elsevier Pub. Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Technical Physics, was a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR as a responsible for the research related to both ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. He is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 140 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; with various patens (7 Italian, 2 European, and 1 worldwide). He is a referee of 1more than 150 international scientific journals and a Member of the Editorial Board of more than 20 of them. Basile is also an associate editor of the: Int. J. Hydrogen Energy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Eng.; journal Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology; and co-Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol.

Claudio Rossi is full professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Siena, coordinator of the NMR spectroscopy activity and responsible for the University of Siena of the research in the Agrifood sector. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications in qualified international journals and co-authored 2 Italian patents. Referee of numerous scientific journals in the field of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Claudio Rossi was the coordinator of six European projects funded by EU. He was the Director of the Department of Chemical and Biosystem Sciences of the University of Siena in the period 2002-2008. He was tutor of numerous students during the preparation of their PhD thesis and Master.

Inhalt
Biomass to bioenergy
1. Biomass pretreatment and transformation from agricultural wastes

2. Efficient transformation of non-food agricultural lignocelluloses
3. Production of bio-alcohol and bio-methane

4. Light olefins/biogasoline production from biomass5. Bioenergy from stillage anaerobic digestion to enhance the energy balance ratio of ethanol production

   Hydrogen production
   6. Thermodynamic analysis of ethanol reforming for hydrogen production7. Catalysts for conversion of synthesis gas8. Distributed H2 production from bio-alcohols and bio-methane in conventional steam reforming units9. H2 production from bio-alchools and bio-methane steam reforming in conventional and membrane reactors

5. Formation of hydrogen rich gas via conversion of lignocellulosic biomass and its decomposition products

6. Advantages and diadvantages of recent biomass conversion technologies compared to conventional approaches for hydrogen production

   Bioenergy technology aspects/status
   12. Nanocomposites for ''Nano Green Energy'' Applications

7. Integration of membrane technologies into conventional existing systems in the food industry
8. Integration of microalgae into an existing biofuel industry
9. Low-temperature fuel cell operated with bio-alcohol fuels
10. Syngas cleaning system for power generation
11. Bioenergy production from second and third generation feedstocks