Proceedings of the First International Conference on Recent Advances in Bioenergy Research (Springer Proceedings in Energy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 813223832X ISBN 13: 9788132238324

Publisher: Springer, 2018

Synopsis

This contributed volume aims to provide latest updates in the area of bioenergy including biodiesel, bioethanol, biomethanation, biomass gasification, and biomass cook-stove. The proceedings of ICRABR 2015 include cutting edge research vital to R&D organizations, academics, and the industry to promote and document the recent developments in the area of bioenergy for all types of stakeholders. The volume highlights the needs of biofuels and their market, the barriers and challenges faced by biofuels and bioenergy and future strategies required to foster new ideas for research, collaboration and commercialization of bioenergy. The major themes of this contributed volume are: Biomass and Energy Management ;Thermochemical Conversion Processes; Biochemical Conversion Processes; Catalytic Conversion Processes; Electrochemical Processes; Waste Treatment to Harvest Energy; and Integrated Processes. The contents of the volume will appeal to students, researchers, professionals, and policymakers in the field of bifuels and bioenergy. 

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About the Author

Dr. Sachin Kumar is Assistant Director in the Biochemical Conversion Division at the Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, India since 2009. Dr. Sachin Kumar obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2011. He has more than eleven years of research experience in Biochemical Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels. His areas of research interest include biofuels including bioethanol, biogas, biobutanol, and biohydrogen, algal biomass, bioprocess engineering, enzyme technology, and metabolic engineering.

Dr. Samir Kumar Khanal is Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Collaborating Professor at Iowa State University. Dr. Khanal obtained a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with focus in Environmental Biotechnology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong in 2002. Dr. Khanal is an internationally leading researcher inthe bioenergy field and has over ten active research projects in the field of bioenergy/bio-based products and environmental biotechnology.

Prof. (Dr.) Y. K. Yadav received his Ph.D. in Energy Studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and at present he is the Director, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (Formerly Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy), Kapurthala, India. Prof. Yadav has been actively engaged in research, teaching, consultancy, administration and management in the field of renewable energy for more than two decades. He developed and taught renewable energy courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India and established a Renewable Energy Laboratory there. He also contributed in the establishment the Department of Energy at Tezpur University, Assam, India.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 813223832X
• ISBN 13: 9788132238324
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Kumar Sachin, Khanal Samir Kumar, Yadav Y. K.