Biofuels Refining and Performance describes the refining processes and issues involved in producing fuel derived from recently living organisms or their by-products.

Biofuels Refining and Performance offers detailed discussion of theory as well as the actual experimental procedure used to economically manufacture biofuels on a commercial scale.

Contents

1. Energy and Its Biological Resources
2. Photosynthetic Plants as Renewable Energy Sources
3. Bioethanol: Market and Production Processes
4. Raw Materials to Produce Low-Cost Biodiesel
5. Fuel and Physical Properties of Biodiesel Components
6. Processing of Vegetable Oils as Biodiesel and Engine Performance
7. Ethanol and Methanol as Fuels in Internal Combustion Engines
8. Cracking of Lipids for Fuels and Chemicals
9. Fuel Cells

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