Artificial Intelligence for Biomass-based Biofuel Production: Current Status and Prospects

This book covers all current technological, industrial status, and future prospects of biofuel production with the concept of artificial intelligence including environmental and socioeconomic impact assessment of biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass. It discusses the status and future scope of artificial intelligence for the advancement of biofuel research. It summarizes machine learning models in addressing the issues of biofuel supply chains, case studies, scientific challenges, and future directions.

Features:

• Covers the use of machine learning within the context of the processing of advanced biofuel feedstocks for biofuel production
• Includes larger alcohols, ethers, levulinates, GTL fuels, and furans production using machine learning approach
• Discusses how machine learning and biomass-based biofuel production can be integrated
• Reviews sustainability and cost analysis of artificial intelligence–based biofuel production
• Explores prediction of the potentiality of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel applications

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in energy and fuels, chemical engineering, and machine learning.

Arindam Kuila is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. Previously, he worked as a research associate at Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Bangalore, India. He did his PhD from Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2013 in the area of lignocellulosic biofuel production. He was awarded Petrotech Research Fellowship in 2008. He has completed one Indo-Brazil collaborative project funded by DBT, India. Presently, he is handling another project on scale-up study of lignocellulosic bioethanol production funded by DST. He has guided eight PhD students, currently five PhD students are working under his guidance. He has published 15 edited books, 20 book chapters, 40 papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and filled 6 patents (2 patents granted). He is editorial board member and acted as a guest editor for several high-impact journals. He is a member of the Biotech Research Society of India and the Association of Microbiologists of India.

Anshuman Shastri is currently working as Director at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. He has vast experience in the area of artificial intelligence. He did his PhD from Kent University, United Kingdom. Along with five additional nominations for major honors, he was awarded the International Young Scientist Award in 2020 and the International Young Researcher Award in 2021. Before the age of 28, each of them was accomplished. In addition, his profile is filled with accolades from extracurricular and academic pursuits, and he has won over 30 more medals, prizes, and recognitions for his outstanding work in quizzes, academics, cricket, and violin. He has published several high-impact peer-reviewed papers in the area of artificial intelligence.