Book description
Focusing on the key challenges that still impede the realization of the
billion-ton renewable fuels vision, this book integrates technological
development and business development rationales to highlight the key
technological. developments that are necessary to industrialize biofuels
on a global scale. Technological issues addressed in this work include
fermentation and downstream processing technologies, as compared to
current industrial practice and process economics. Business issues that
provide the lens through which the technological review is performed
span the entire biofuel value chain, from financial mechanisms to fund
biotechnology start-ups in the biofuel arena up to large green field
manufacturing projects, to raw material farming, collection and
transport to the bioconversion plant, manufacturing, product recovery,
storage, and transport to the point of sale. Emphasis has been placed
throughout the book on providing a global view that takes into account
the intrinsic characteristics of various biofuels markets from Brazil,
the EU, the US, or Japan, to emerging economies as agricultural
development and biofuel development appear undissociably linked.
