Abstract
To increase the use of biofuels for transport is one of the most effective tools to introduce renewable biological resources into the transport sector for reducing the dependence on imported oil and reduce CO2 emissions. This book presents a description of the feedstocks and technologies for liquid biofuels production, indicating their characteristics, and the annual production in the major producer countries. This chapter covers current conventional feedstocks and processes and emerging raw materials and techniques. After an overview of the subject, this chapter discusses first generation feedstocks (conventional sugar, starch, and oil-containing crops) and technologies for biodiesel and ethanol production and examines advanced feedstocks (lignocellulosic biomass) and technologies such as cellulosic ethanol, gasification, and pyrolysis. Discussing the future of biofuel production, it also describes the prospective conversion technologies and concludes with a discussion on challenges, opportunities, and barriers for the future development of liquid biofuels in a bioeconomy context.
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