M. Aftab, I. Iqbal, Fatima Riaz, A. Karadağ, M. Tabatabaei
{"title":"Different Pretreatment Methods of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Use in Biofuel Production","authors":"M. Aftab, I. Iqbal, Fatima Riaz, A. Karadağ, M. Tabatabaei","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.84995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84995","url":null,"abstract":"Lignocellulosic biomasses are carbon neutral and abundantly available renewable bioresource material available on earth. However, the main problem that hinders its frequent use is the tight bonding within its constituents that include cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. The selection of pretreatment process depends exclusively on the application. Various pretreatment processes are primarily developed and utilized in effective separation of these interlinked components to take maximum benefit from the constitutes of the lignocellulosic biomasses especially for the production of biofuel. The major pretreatment methods include physical, chemical, thermophysical, thermochemical, and biological approaches. Various aspects of these different pretreatment approaches are discussed in this chapter.","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115165894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sakthivadivel Duraisamy, M. Sundararaj, K. Raja, G. Poongavanam, I. Selvarasan
{"title":"Energy and Exergy Analysis of an Advanced Cookstove-Based Annular Thermoelectric Cogeneration System","authors":"Sakthivadivel Duraisamy, M. Sundararaj, K. Raja, G. Poongavanam, I. Selvarasan","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.84237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.84237","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter deals with the energy and exergy analysis of the cookstove-based gasifier annular thermoelectric generator (GATEG). The vented waste heat is made available at the outer surface of the combustion chamber of an advanced micro-gasifier cookstove for added energy feed to the GATEG. This combined device has a competence to satisfy both cooking needs and micro-electrification of rural villages by a simultaneous recovery of heat energy and power (CHP) as cogeneration system. The power output (W), electrical energy efficiency (%) and exergy efficiency (%) of the proposed advanced micro-gasifier cookstove-based ATEG are 10 W, 6.78 and 15%, respectively. The maximum hot side wasted temperature without annulus gain is 275°C, which translates equivalent loss values as 7.64 W, 5.45 and 10.49%; this loss is higher than achievable minimum hot side temperature of 150°C on which this analyt-ical chapter is drafted. This detailed study will be extremely useful to the designers of commercial biomass advanced micro-gasifier cookstove integrated ATEG systems.","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125109544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fungal Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Materials","authors":"Najiah Nadir, Nur Liyana Ismail, A. Hussain","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.84239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.84239","url":null,"abstract":"The biomass must be converted to fermentable carbohydrates through pretreatment process to break down the complex structure to its constituents prior to fermentation. For lignocellulosic materials, lignin moiety is extremely resistant to degradation because of hydrogen bond cross-linking between the cellulose and hemicellulose. Biological pretreatment using white-rot fungi are novel method and environmental-friendly as a method of biomass deconstruction as compared to other conventional means. These fungi can excrete ligninolytic enzymes to degrade lignin although the rate of deconstruction is slow. Hence, this chapter will focus on the fungal pretreatment or delignification process using white-rot fungi as it is an important step to increase the feedstock conversion.","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115819497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Salakkam, P. Plangklang, S. Sittijunda, M. B. Kongkeitkajorn, Siriporn Lunprom, A. Reungsang
{"title":"Bio-hydrogen and Methane Production from Lignocellulosic Materials","authors":"A. Salakkam, P. Plangklang, S. Sittijunda, M. B. Kongkeitkajorn, Siriporn Lunprom, A. Reungsang","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.85138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.85138","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter covers the information on bio-hydrogen and methane production from lignocellulosic materials. Pretreatment methods of lignocellulosic materials and the factors affecting bio-hydrogen production, both darkand photofermentation, and methane production are addressed. Last but not least, the processes for bio-hydrogen and methane production from lignocellulosic materials are discussed.","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123355716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Beltrán‐Ramírez, Domancar Orona-Tamayo, Ivette Cornejo-Corona, José Luz Nicacio González-Cervantes, J. Esparza-Claudio, Elizabeth Quintana‐Rodríguez
{"title":"Agro-Industrial Waste Revalorization: The Growing Biorefinery","authors":"F. Beltrán‐Ramírez, Domancar Orona-Tamayo, Ivette Cornejo-Corona, José Luz Nicacio González-Cervantes, J. Esparza-Claudio, Elizabeth Quintana‐Rodríguez","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83569","url":null,"abstract":"Agro-industrial residues have been the spotlight of different researches worldwide, due to some of their constituents being raw material to generate a diversified variety of industrial products. Nowadays, this situation keeps prevailing and will increase con-tinuously in the future. In the agroindustry, diverse biomasses are subjected to distinct unit processes for providing value to different waste materials from agriculture, food processing, and alcoholic industries. In this chapter, we reported an updated survey of different renewable organic materials that including agricultural wastes can be converted to bioenergy. Similarly, these wastes encrypt different bioactive compounds with an excellent nutraceutical functions and with high adding value. In addition, biocomposites can be elaborated using fibers from wastes with a wide variety of applications in the automotive and packaging industry. Vinasses derived from tequila industry in Mexico represent a lot of potential to extract biocompounds, and we propose a process to obtain them. A perspective of market trend is mentioned in this chapter for compounds derived from agro-industrial wastes. Adding value to those agro-industrial wastes can provide the reduction of negative impact emission, discharge, or disposal, solves an environmental problem, and generates additional income.","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127652203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges of Biomass Utilization for Biofuels","authors":"Sibel Irmak","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83752","url":null,"abstract":"Lignocellulosic biomass materials are attracting increasing attention as renewable, economical and abundant resources to reduce dependency on petroleum resources. However, chemical and physicochemical properties of these materials (e.g., low density, moisture content, complex and rigid structure, etc.) limit their use. The contents and compositions of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin polymers in biomass feedstock highly affect the efficiencies of conversion technologies. In aqueous-phase utilization processes, it is necessary to breakdown the starting biomass material into soluble components and release the carbohydrates into hydrolysate for an effective conversion. It is not economical to convert biomass hydrolysates into renewable fuels in high yields if they mostly contain large-sized molecules such as polysaccharides. The chapter describes challenges of lignocellulosic biomass materials usage in biofuel application such as their complexity and diversity, content and composition, low density, moisture content and dissolution difficulties, etc.","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128009960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selection of Optimal Localization for a Biomass Energy Plant that Uses Residual Biomass as a Raw Material in the Araucanía Region of Chile","authors":"Celián Román‐Figueroa, S. Herrera, M. Paneque","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83526","url":null,"abstract":"Residual biomass is used for energy purposes, such as producing heat and electricity. The potential raw materials are wheat, oat and barley straw, corn stover from the agricultural industry, and wood chips from forest residuals and the wood industry. In Chile about 10 MM t year − 1 residues are produced; however, most of these are burned, increasing the greenhouse gas emission. This study evaluated the energy production from the residual biomass in the Araucanía Region of Chile. The optimal location for installing an energy generation plant was determined, according to various conditions, such as the distance from the villages, energy demands, industry location, etc. A multi-criteria evaluation and analytic hierarchy process were performed for determining the optimal location, and a proposal for its installation was created. A total of 19 districts were selected as suitable location that met the requirements for the three scenarios.","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114545902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Rezaei, F. Yazdanpanah, Jim Lim, A. Lau, S. Sokhansanj
{"title":"Woody Feedstock Pretreatments to Enhance Pyrolysis Bio-oil Quality and Produce Transportation Fuel","authors":"H. Rezaei, F. Yazdanpanah, Jim Lim, A. Lau, S. Sokhansanj","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.81818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.81818","url":null,"abstract":"Lignocellulosic biomass as a potential renewable source of energy has a near-zero CO 2 emission. Pyrolysis converts biomass to a liquid fuel and increases the energy density and transportability. The pyrolysis bio-oil shows promising properties to substitute the conventional fossil fuels. But, unprocessed biomass is low in bulk and energy density; high in moisture; heterogeneous in physical and chemical properties, highly hygroscopic and difficult to handle. That is why the biomass needs mechanical, chemical and/or thermal pretreatments to turn into a more homogeneous feedstock and minimize the post-treatment fuel upgrading. This chapter explains the effects that various pretreatments such as size reduction, drying, washing and thermal pretreatments have on the quality and quantity of bio-oil. Washing with water or acid/alkali solutions extracts the minerals that consequently reduces the ash and shortens the reactor clean-out cycle. Torrefaction is gaining attention as an effective pretreatment to modify the quality of biomass in terms of physical and chemical properties. Torrefaction produces a uniform biomass with lower moisture, acidity and oxygen contents and higher energy density and grindability than raw biomass. Pyrolysis of torrefied biomass produces bio-oil with enhanced compositional and physical properties such as a higher heating value and increased C (lower O/C ratio).","PeriodicalId":341061,"journal":{"name":"Biomass for Bioenergy - Recent Trends and Future Challenges","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127133389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}