Sustainable Biotechnology

Abstract

Applications of Biotechnology for the Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources Om V. Singh and Steven P. Harvey Chapter 1 Heat and mass transport in processing of lignocellulosic biomass for fuels and chemicals Sridhar Viamajala, Bryon S. Donohoe, Stephen R. Decker, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael J. Selig, Michael E. Himmel, and Melvin P. Tucker Chapter 2 Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass Xiaorong Wu, James McLaren, Ron Madl and Donghai Wang Chapter 3 Environmentally Sustainable Biofuels - The Case for Biodiesel, Biobutanol and Cellulosic Ethanol Palligarnai T. Vasudevan, Michael D. Gagnon and Michael S. Briggs Chapter 4 Biotechnological Applications of Hemicellulosic Derived Sugars: State-of-the-art Anuj K. Chandel, Om V. Singh and L.Venkateswar Rao Chapter 5 Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER) James J. Valdes and Jerry B. Warner Chapter 6 Production of Methane Biogas as Fuel through Anaerobic Digestion Zhongtang Yu and Floyd L. Schanbacher Chapter 7 Waste to renewable energy: a sustainable and green approach towards production of biohydrogen by acidogenic fermentation S. Venkata Mohan Chapter 8 Bacterial communities in various conditions of the composting reactor revealed by 16S rDNA clone analysis and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis Keiko Watanabe, Norio Nagao, Tatsuki Toda and Norio Kurosawa Chapter 9 Perspectives on Bioenergy and Biofuels Elinor L. Scott, A. Maarten J. Kootstra and Johan P.M. Sanders Chapter 10 Perspectives on Chemicals from Renewable Resources Elinor L. Scott, Johan P.M. Sanders and Alexander Steinbuchel Chapter 11 Microbial Lactic Acid Production from Renewable Resources Yebo Li and Fengjie Cui Chapter 12 Microbial production of potent phenolic-antioxidants through solid state fermentation SilviaMartins, Diego Mercado, Marco Mata-Gomez, Luis Rodriguez, Antonio Aguilera-Carbo, Raul Rodriguez and Cristobal N. Aguilar Chapter 13 Photoautotrophic production of astaxanthin by the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis Esperanza Del Rio, F. Gabriel Acien and Miguel G. Guerrero Chapter 14 Enzymatic Synthesis of Heparin Renpeng Liu and Jian Liu Chapter 15 Extremophiles: Sustainable resource of natural compounds-Extremolytes Raj Kumar, Dev Dutt Patel, Deen Dayal Bansal, Saurabh Mishra, Anis Mohammed, Rajesh Arora, Ashok Sharma, R.K. Sharma and Rajendra Prasad Tripathi