Sugarcane Biofuels : Status, Potential, and Prospects of the Sweet Crop to Fuel the World / edited by Muhammad Tahir Khan, Imtiaz Ahmed Khan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khan, Muhammad Tahir, editor.

Ahmad Khan, Imtiaz, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant breeding.

Agriculture.

Natural resources.

Renewable energy sources.

Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

Renewable and Green Energy.

Local Subjects:

Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

Agriculture.

Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

Renewable and Green Energy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 472 pages) : 119 illustrations, 99 illustrations in color

Edition:

First edition 2019.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability. Being the largest agricultural commodity of the world with respect to total production, sugarcane biomass is abundantly available. Brazil has already become a sugarcane biofuels centered economy while Thailand, Colombia, and South Africa are also significantly exploiting this energy source. Other major cane producers include India, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Australia, Indonesia, and the United States. It has been projected that sugarcane biofuels will be playing extremely important role in world's energy matrix in recent future. This book analyzes the significance, applications, achievements, and future avenues of biofuels and bioenergy production from sugarcane, in top cane growing countries around the globe. Moreover, we also evaluate the barriers and areas of improvement for targeting efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective biofuels from sugarcane to meet the world's energy needs and combat the climate change.

Contents:

1. Sugarcane as a Bioenergy Source

2. Biofuels Production from Sugarcane - Various Routes of Harvesting Energy from the Crop

3. Energy Cane: A Sound Alternative of a Bioenergy Crop for Tropics and Subtropics

4. Genetically Modified Sugarcane for Biofuels Production: Status and Perspectives of Conventional Transgenic Approaches, RNA Interference and Genome Editing for Improving Sugarcane for Biofuels

5. Biofuels Production from Sugarcane in Brazil

6. Sugarcane Production and It's Utilization as a Biofuel in India: Status, Perspectives, and Current Policy

7. Sugarcane biofuels production in China

8. Biofuels Production from Sugarcane in Thailand

9. Sugarcane Biofuels and Bioenergy Production in Pakistan: Current Scenario, Potential, and Future Avenues

10. Ethanol Production from the Mexican Sugar Industry: Perspectives and Challenges

11. Sugarcane Biofuels Production in Colombia

12. Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts of Biofuels Production from Sugarcane in Australia

13. Sugarcane Biofuels Production in Indonesia

14. Sugarcane Biofuel Production in the USA

15. Sugarcane Biofuels Production in South Africa, Guatemala, Philippines, Argentina, Vietnam, Cuba, and Sri Lanka

16. Source-Sink Relationship of Sugarcane Energy Production at the Sugar Mills

17. Challenges, Constraints, and Limitations of Cane Biofuels

18. Sustainability and Environmental Impacts of Sugarcane Biofuels

19. Future Perspectives of Sugarcane Biofuels

Index.

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Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-030-18597-8

9783030185978

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