Chapter-1: Introduction to Biofuels

Tatsuji Koizumi

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caraclla, 00153 Rome, Italy

Institute for Science & Society (ISS), School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom

Peidong Zhang

College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, China

Pavel Ciaian

European Commission (DG Joint Research Centre), Spain

A. Zabaniotou

Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, University Box 455, PO Box 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

Chapter-2: Biofuels Economics and Policy

Marta Santamaría

CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas Energy Systems Analysis Unit, Av. Complutense, 40, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Gunter Festel

Festel Capital, Mettlenstrasse 14, CH-6363 Fuerigen, Switzerland

Hee Chul Woo

Department of Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea

Razif Harun

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia

Yi-Heng Percival Zhang

Biological Systems Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, 304 Seitz Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Chapter-3: Biofuels production processes: an overview

Bryan R. Moser

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, 1815 N University St, Peoria, IL 61604, USA

Jemaa Mabrouki

United de recherche Materiaux,  Energie et Energies Renouvelables, Faculty of Sciences of Gafsa, University of Gafsa, Tunisia

Pornpote Piumsomboon

Fuels Research Center, Department of Chemical Technology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, 254 Phayathai Road, Patumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Simone Bastianoni

Ecodynamics Group, Department of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Siena, Pian dei Mantellini 44, 53100, Siena, Italy

Jadwiga R. Ziolkowska

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 207 Giannini Hall #3310, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310, USA

Lin Li

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 842 W Taylor Street, ERF 2039, Chicago, IL 60607, United States        

Richard D. Offeman

Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA, 94710, United States

Chapter-4:  Existing production technologies of various biofuels; Advancement and limitations

B. Z. Dholakiya

Department of Applied Chemistry, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Ichchhanath, Surat 395007, Gujarat, India

Guangyi Wang

Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory for Algal Biofuel Technology Development and Application, School of Environment and Energy, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China

Amy Sun

Sandia National Laboratories, Chemical and Biological Systems, P.O. Box 5800 Albuquerque, NM 87185-0734, United States

Jay D. Keasling

Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States

Paula-Bianca Marica

University of Romania

Snehal Ingale

Department of Microbiology, Natubhai V. Patel College of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vallabh-Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India

Chapter-5: Nanotechnology and its energy applications

Qayyum Husain

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India

Zhengyu Jin

The State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122,China

X.L. Zhang

INRS Eau, Terre et Environnement, 490, rue de la Couronne, Québec, Canada G1K 9A9

Tariq Mahmood

Nano Science and Catalysis Division, National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University Campus, Shahdhra Valley Road, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

Giorgia Pastorin

NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering

Chapter-6: Nanotechnology in biohydrogen production

Haijun Yang

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Laboratory of New Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun North First Street 2, Beijing 100190, PR China

Jianquan Shen

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Laboratory of New Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun North First Street 2, Beijing 100190, PR China

Yongfang Zhang

School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, PR China

Dong Wei

School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, PR China

Laurent Beckers

Centre Wallon de Biologie Industrielle (CWBI), Département des Sciences de la Vie, B40, 10 Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium

Weifeng Yao

Shanghai Key Laboratory of Materials Protection and Advanced Materials in Electric Power, College of Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, P. R. China

Rachnarin Nitisoravut

School of Bio-Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani 12121, Thailand

Velan Pugalenthi

Department of Biotechnology, Bharathidasan Institute of Technology, Anna University, Tiruchirappalli 620 024 Tamil Nadu, India

Chapter-7: Nanotechnology for  cellulases

Neha Srivastava

Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU)Varanasi, India

Kamyar Khoshnevisan

Department of Biotechnology Engineering, faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Wilfred Chen

Department of Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA

Munish Puri

Centre for Chemistry and Biotechnology (CCB), Geelong Technology Precinct, Waurn Ponds, Deakin University

Iseult Lynch

School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Elsa Cherian

Department of Applied Science and Technology, Anna University, Chennai-600025, India

WenjuanZhang

Department of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Systems Engineering, Akita Prefectural University, Akita015-0055,Japan

Chapter-8: Nanotechnology in algal fuel production

You-Kwan Oh

Biomass and Waste Energy Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Daejeon 305-343, Republic of Korea

Mark Crocker

Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, 2540 Research Park Drive, Lexington, KY 40511, USA

Florence Mouchet

Université de Toulouse, UPS, INP, EcoLab (Laboratoire d'écologie fonctionnelle et environnement), ENSAT, Avenue de l'Agrobiopôle, F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France CNRS, EcoLab (Laboratoire d'écologie fonctionnelle et environnement), F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France

Eija Schultz

Finnish Environment Institute, Laboratory centre, P.O. Box 140, FI-00251 Helsinki, Finland

Sachin Mandotra

CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute

Lucknow, India

Chapter-9: Nanotechnology in bioethanol/biobutanol production

Deepika Kushwaha and P.K. Mishra

Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India

Syamsul Rizal Abd Shukor

School of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Seberang Prai Selatan, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Mohadese Babaki

Department of Pure Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., Tehran, Iran

C. Winarti

Indonesian Center for Agricultural Post Harvest Research and Development, Bogor 16114, Indonesia

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alameda Urquijo s/n 48013, Bilbao, Spain.

Chapter-10: Nanotechnology for biodiesel production

C. Syed Aalam

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu 608001, India

Abbas Alli Taghipoor Bafghi

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dezful

Ali M.A. Attia

Mechanical Engineering Department, Benha

Faculty of Engineering, Benha University

13512 - Benha, Qalubia, Egypt

Ahmed I. El-Seesy

Mechanical Engineering Department, Benha Faculty of Engineering, Benha University 13512 - Benha, Qalubia, Egypt

Hesham M. El-Batsh

Mechanical Engineering Department, Benha Faculty of Engineering, Benha University

13512 - Benha, Qalubia, Egypt

This book focuses on the use of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the production of biofuels. It describes the current production technologies for different biofuels and their limitations for commercialization, and discusses in detail how nanomaterials could reduce biofuel production costs. After an introduction to biofuels, the book examines biofuels economics and policy; biofuel production processes - advances and limitations; nanotechnology and its energy applications; nanotechnology in biohydrogen production - for cellulases, in algal fuel, and in bioethanol/biobutanol and biodiesel production. It is a valuable resource for researchers and engineers.