Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Biodiesel Production Technologies
(B. Brian He, Biological Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho)
Chapter 2. Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biodiesel Production: A State of the Art
(Lizbeth Liliana Díaz-Muñoz, Hilda Elizabeth Reynel-Avila, Didilia Ileana Mendoza-Castillo,and Adrián Bonilla-Petriciolet, Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México, and others)
Chapter 3. The Influence of Raw Material on Biodiesel Production
(Carolina Porto Prados, PhD, Sâmilla Gabriella Coêlho de Almeida, Samara Cardoso Alves, Jefferson dos Santos Araújo and Kytéria Sabina Lopes de Figueredo, PhD, Department of Agrarian and Technological Sciences, Federal University of Tocantins, Gurupi, Tocantins, Brazil)
Chapter 4. Terresterial Macroinvetebrate Larvae as the Unconventional Feedstock for Biodiesel Production
(Siew Yoong Leong, Shamsul Rahman Mohamed Kutty and Mohammed J. K. Bashir, Department of Petrochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti Bandar Barat, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia)
Chapter 5. Production of Biodiesel from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge
(Magdalena Olkiewicz, Esther Torrens and Christophe Bengoa, Departament d’Enginyeria Química, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
Chapter 6. Biodiesel from Microalgae
(Rosangela R. Dias, Karem R. Vieira, Pricila N. Pinheiro, Leila Q. Zepka and Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil)
Chapter 7. Lipid Induction in Different Microalgae Species
(Rosa Olivia Cañizares–Villanueva and Alfredo de Jesús Martínez–Roldán, Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN), Ciudad de México, México)
Chapter 8. Physical Factors’ Influence on Chlorella vulgaris Microalgae Development and Lipid Biosynthesis
(Golub N. and Levtun I., Department of Environmental Biotechnology and Bioenergy National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Chapter 9. Supercritical in Situ Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Biomass: A Review
(Luisa F. Rios Pinto, Gabriela F. Ferreira and Rubens Maciel Filho, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Chapter 10. Biodiesel Production from Microalgae as a Biorefinery Concept
(Alfredo de Jesús Martínez–Roldán and Rosa Olivia Cañizares–Villanueva, CONACYT-TecNM/IT Durango. División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación. Maestría en Sistemas Ambientales. Durango, México)
Chapter 11. When the Experimental Techniques and Atomistic Theoretical Methodologies Aid in the Understanding of Biodiesel Production
(Jesús Muñiz, Adriana Longoria, Cornelio Delesma and Fidel Aguilar-Aguilar, Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Temixco, México)
Chapter 12. Numerical Analysis of Biodiesel-Glycerol Separation in Microchannels
(Harrson S. Santana, João L. Silva Jr, Adriano G. P. da Silva and Osvaldir P. Taranto, University of Campinas, School of Chemical Engineering, Campinas, SP, Brazil and Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of South of Minas Gerais, Pouso Alegre, MG, Brazil)
Chapter 13. Bioplastics from Biodiesel Byproducts: A Green Alternative to Petroleum-Based Plastics and Fuels
(Carolina B.C. de Paula, Fabrício C. de Paula, PhD, and Jonas Contiero, PhD, Institute for Research in Bioenergy, São Paulo State University, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil)
About the Editors
Index
Keywords: Biodiesel, oil, lipids, catalysts