Ebook: Aqueous Pretreatment of Plant Biomass for Biological and Chemical Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals

Plant biomass is attracting increasing attention as a sustainable resource for large-scale production of renewable fuels and chemicals. However, in order to successfully compete with petroleum, it is vital that biomass conversion processes are designed to minimize costs and maximize yields. Advances in pretreatment technology are critical in order to develop high-yielding, cost-competitive routes to renewable fuels and chemicals.

Aqueous Pretreatment of Plant Biomass for Biological and Chemical Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals presents a comprehensive overview of the currently available aqueous pretreatment technologies for cellulosic biomass, highlighting the fundamental chemistry and biology of each method, key attributes and limitations, and opportunities for future advances.

Topics covered include:

• The importance of biomass conversion to fuels
• The role of pretreatment in biological and chemical conversion of biomass
• Composition and structure of biomass, and recalcitrance to conversion
• Fundamentals of biomass pretreatment at low, neutral and high pH
• Ionic liquid and organosolv pretreatments to fractionate biomass
• Comparative data for application of leading pretreatments and effect of enzyme formulations
• Physical and chemical features of pretreated biomass
• Economics of pretreatment for biological processing
• Methods of analysis and enzymatic conversion of biomass streams
• Experimental  pretreatment systems from multiwell plates to pilot plant operations 

This comprehensive reference book provides an authoritative source of information on the pretreatment of cellulosic biomass to aid those experienced in the field to access the most current information on the topic.  It will also be invaluable to those entering the growing field of biomass conversion.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–15): Charles E. Wyman
Chapter 2 Cellulosic Biofuels: Importance, Recalcitrance, and Pretreatment (pages 17–21): Lee Lynd and Mark Laser
Chapter 3 Plant Cell Walls: Basics of Structure, Chemistry, Accessibility and the Influence on Conversion (pages 23–38): Brian H. Davison, Jerry Parks, Mark F. Davis and Bryon S. Donohoe
Chapter 4 Biological Conversion of Plants to Fuels and Chemicals and the Effects of Inhibitors (pages 39–60): Eduardo Ximenes, Youngmi Kim and Michael R. Ladisch
Chapter 5 Catalytic Strategies for Converting Lignocellulosic Carbohydrates to Fuels and Chemicals (pages 61–102): Jesse Q. Bond, David Martin Alonso and James A. Dumesic
Chapter 6 Fundamentals of Biomass Pretreatment at Low pH (pages 103–128): Heather L. Trajano and Charles E. Wyman
Chapter 7 Fundamentals of Aqueous Pretreatment of Biomass (pages 129–143): Nathan S. Mosier
Chapter 8 Fundamentals of Biomass Pretreatment at High pH (pages 145–167): Rocio Sierra Ramirez, Mark Holtzapple and Natalia Piamonte
Chapter 9 Primer on Ammonia Fiber Expansion Pretreatment (pages 169–200): S. P. S. Chundawat, B. Bals, T. Campbell, L. Sousa, D. Gao, M. Jin, P. Eranki, R. Garlock, F. Teymouri, Venkatesh Balan and Bruce E. Dale
Chapter 10 Fundamentals of Biomass Pretreatment by Fractionation (pages 201–222): Poulomi Sannigrahi and Arthur J. Ragauskas
Chapter 11 Ionic Liquid Pretreatment: Mechanism, Performance, and Challenges (pages 223–238): Seema Singh and Blake A. Simmons
Chapter 12 Comparative Performance of Leading Pretreatment Technologies for Biological Conversion of Corn Stover, Poplar Wood, and Switchgrass to Sugars (pages 239–259): Charles E. Wyman, Bruce E. Dale, Venkatesh Balan, Richard T. Elander, Mark T. Holtzapple, Rocio Sierra Ramirez, Michael R. Ladisch, Nathan S. Mosier, Y. Y. Lee, Rajesh Gupta, Steven R. Thomas, Bonnie R. Hames, Ryan Warner and Rajeev Kumar
Chapter 13 Effects of Enzyme Formulation and Loadings on Conversion of Biomass Pretreated by Leading Technologies (pages 261–279): Rajesh Gupta and Y. Y. Lee
Chapter 14 Physical and Chemical Features of Pretreated Biomass that Influence Macro?/Micro?Accessibility and Biological Processing (pages 281–310): Rajeev Kumar and Charles E. Wyman
Chapter 15 Economics of Pretreatment for Biological Processing (pages 311–333): Ling Tao, Andy Aden and Richard T. Elander
Chapter 16 Progress in the Summative Analysis of Biomass Feedstocks for Biofuels Production (pages 335–354): Foster A. Agblevor and Junia Pereira
Chapter 17 High?Throughput NIR Analysis of Biomass Pretreatment Streams (pages 355–368): Bonnie R. Hames
Chapter 18 Plant Biomass Characterization: Application of Solution? and Solid?State NMR Spectroscopy (pages 369–390): Yunqiao Pu, Bassem Hallac and Arthur J. Ragauskas
Chapter 19 Xylooligosaccharides Production, Quantification, and Characterization in Context of Lignocellulosic Biomass Pretreatment (pages 391–415): Qing Qing, Hongjia Li, Rajeev Kumar and Charles E. Wyman
Chapter 20 Experimental Pretreatment Systems from Laboratory to Pilot Scale (pages 417–450): Richard T. Elander
Chapter 21 Experimental Enzymatic Hydrolysis Systems (pages 451–469): Todd Lloyd and Chaogang Liu
Chapter 22 High?Throughput Pretreatment and Hydrolysis Systems for Screening Biomass Species in Aqueous Pretreatment of Plant Biomass (pages 471–488): Jaclyn DeMartini and Charles E. Wyman
Chapter 23 Laboratory Pretreatment Systems to Understand Biomass Deconstruction (pages 489–521): Bin Yang and Melvin Tucker