Beschreibung:
A. Nag, Ph.D. is with the Department of Chemistryat the Indian Institute of Technology.
Learn about the ways to economically manufacture biofuelsWritten by a team of international experts,Biofuels Refining andPerformancedescribes the refining processes and issues involvedin producing fuel derived from recently living organisms or theirby-products. Each chapter offers detailed discussion of theory aswell as the actual experimental procedure used to economicallymanufacture biofuels on a commercial scale.
Part One: Chemistry of Biofuels Chapter 1. Energy and Its Biological Resources Chapter 2. Photosynthetic Plants as Renewable Source of Energy Chapter 3. Fuels from Biomass Conversion Part Two: Biofuels Refining Processes Chapter 4. Ethanol Chapter 5. Methanol Chapter 6. Biodiesel Part Three: Performance Characteristics Chapter 7. Use of alcohols to study the performance characteristics in Petrol and Diesel Engines Chapter 8. Biofuel cells Chapter 9. Soft / Decentralized renewables as an energy optionfor the developing countries