Bioenergy / edited by Judy D. Wall, Caroline S. Harwood, Arnold Demain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wall, Judy D.

Harwood, Caroline S.

Demain, A. L. (Arnold L.), 1927-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomass energy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 437 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2008]

Contents:

Bioethanol

Production of ethanol from corn and sugarcane / Nancy N. Nichols ... [et al.]

Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to ethanol by Saccharomyces spp. / Z. Lewis Liu, Badal C. Saha, and Patricia J. Slininger

Engineering the Pichia stipitis genome for fermentation of hemicellulose hydrolysates / Thomas W. Jeffries

Ethanol, biomass, and clostridia / Marco A. Báez-Vásquez and Arnold L. Demain

Consolidated bioprocessing of cellulosic biomass to ethanol using thermophilic bacteria / Lee R. Lynd ... [et al.]

Cellulosome-enhanced conversion of biomass: on the road to bioethanol / Edward A. Bayer, Yuval Shoham, and Raphael Lamed

Cellulosomes from mesophilic bacteria / Roy H. Doi

Cohesin-dockerin interactions and folding / J. H. David Wu, Michael Newcomb, and Kazuo Sakka

Contribution of domain interactions and calcium binding to the stability of carbohydate-active enzymes / Lars G. Ljungdahl, Irina A. Kataeva, and Vladimir N. Uversky

The development of ethanologenic bacteria for fuel ethanol production / Gregory W. Luli, Laura Jarboe, and Lonnie O. Ingram

Chrysosporium lucknowense cellulases and xylanases in cellulosic biofuels production / Marco A. Báez-Vásquez and Arkady P. Sinitsyn

Production of ethanol from synthesis gas / Ralph S. Tanner

Methane production

Acetate-based methane production / James G. Ferry

Energetic aspects of methanogenic feeding webs / Bernhard Schink

Optimizing mixed-culture bioprocessing to convert wastes into bioenergy / Largus T. Angenent and Brian A. Wrenn

Biomethane from biomass, biowaste, and biofuels / Ann C. Wilkie

Methane from gas hydrates / Bahman Tohidi and Ross Anderson

Methanol

Methanol from biomass / Manfred Ringpfeil ... [et al.]

Prospects for methanol production / Bakul C. Dave

Hydrogen production

Towards hydrogenase engineering for hydrogen production / Marc Rousset and Laurent Cournac

Nitrogenase-catalyzed hydrogen production by purple nonsulfur photosynthetic bacteria / Caroline S. Harwood

Photosynthetic water-splitting for hydrogen production / Michael Seibert ... [et al.]

Fuel cells:electricity

Electricity production with electricigens / Derek R. Lovley and Kelly P. Nevin

Microbial fuel cells as an engineered ecosystem / Peter Aelterman ... [et al.]

Organic solvents

Molecular aspects of butanol fermentation / Carlos J. Paredes ... [et al.]

Practical aspects of butanol production / Thaddeus C. Ezeji and Hans P. Blaschek

Biorefineries for solvents: the MixAlco process / Cesar B. Granda and Mark T. Holtzapple

Increased biofuel production by metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum / Leighann Sullivan, Miles C. Scotcher, and George N. Bennett

Microbial oil recovery

Emerging oil field biotechnologies: prevention of oil field souring by nitrate injection / Gerrit Voordouw

Microbial approaches for the enhanced recovery of methane and oil from mature reservoirs / Joseph M. Suflita and Michael J. McInerney

Exploiting microbial genomes for energy production

Genomic prospecting for microbial biodiesel production / Athanasios Lykidis and Natalia Ivanova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical refereneces and index.

ISBN:

9781555814786

1555814786

OCLC:

193903761