This ebook contains 19 chapters contributed through the world's prime specialists on pretreatment tools for biomass. It largely covers the different sorts of biomass (e.g. molasses, sugar beet pulp, cheese whey, sugarcane residues, palm waste, vegetable oil, straws, stalks and wood), quite a few pretreatment methods (e.g. actual, thermal, chemical, physicochemical and organic) and strategies that express the next construction of biofuels and chemical compounds resembling sugars, ethanol, extracellular polysaccharides, biodiesel, fuel and oil. as well as conventional tools corresponding to steam, hot-water, hydrothermal, diluted-acid, organosolv, ozonolysis, sulfite, milling, fungal and bacterial, microwave, ultrasonic, plasma, torrefaction, pelletization, gasification (including biogas) and liquefaction pretreatments, it additionally introduces and discusses novel strategies equivalent to nano and reliable catalysts, natural electrolyte ideas and ionic drinks.

This publication deals a overview of state of the art study and gives tips for the longer term paths of constructing pretreatment innovations of biomass for biofuels, in particular within the fields of biotechnology, microbiology, chemistry, fabrics technology and engineering. It intends to supply a scientific creation of pretreatment ideas. it really is an obtainable reference paintings for college students, researchers, academicians and industrialists in biorefineries.

Zhen Fang is a Professor of Bioenergy and the chief and founding father of the biomass workforce on the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical backyard of the chinese language Academy of Sciences. he's additionally an accessory complete Professor of existence Sciences on the college of technology and know-how of China.