Biofuels : production and future perspectives / editors, Ram Sarup Singh, Ashok Pandey, Edgard Gnansounou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biofuels : historical perspectives and public opinions -- Climate change, biofuels and conflict -- Global demands of biofuels : technologies, economic aspects, market and policies -- Trends and sustainability criteria for the liquid biofuels -- Lipid-based biomasses as feedstocks for biofuels production -- Solid acid mediated hydrolysis of biomass for producing biofuels -- Microwave-assisted pyrolysis of biomass for liquid biofuels production -- Hydroprocessing challenges in biofuels production -- Production of biodiesel from renewable resources -- Bioethanol production from lignocellulosics -- Process design, flowsheeting and simulation of bioethanol production from lignocelluloses -- Biobutanol production from lignocellulosics -- Algal biofuels : impacts, significance and implications -- Microalgal biofuels : flexible bioenergies for sustainable development -- Microalgae cultivation for biofuels : cost, energy balance, environmental impacts and future perspectives -- Photobioreactors for microalgal cultivation and influence of operational parameters -- Sustainable biorefinery design for algal biofuel production -- Novel enzymes in biofuel production -- New trends in enzyme immobilization and nanostructured interfaces for electrocatalysis in biofuels production -- Current insights into proteomics of biofuel crops and cyanobacteria -- Biofuel cells : concepts and perspectives for implantable devices.