本书以宏观视角多方面介绍了生物能源领域的研究、应用进展,并分析了生物能源对种植业结构和农业可持续发展的影响,以及对世界经济的影响。各章节作者来自不同部门、国家,身份各不相同,并从不同视角对生物能源领域做了各自的阐述。
1 Historical Perspective of Biofuels:
Learning from the Past to Rediscover the Future
David Songstad, Prakash Lakshmanan, John Chen,
William Gibbons, Stephen Hughes, and R. Nelson
2 The DOE BioEnergy Science Center-A U.S.
Department of Energy Bioenergys Research Center
Russ Miller and Martin Keller
3 Drivers Leading to Higher Food Prices:
Biofuels are not the Main Factor
Paul Arrnah, Aaron Archer, and Gregory C. Phillips
4 The Economics of Current and Future Biofuels
Ling Tao and Andy Aden
5 A Multiple Species Approach to Biomass Production
from Native Herbaceous Perennial Feedstocks
J.L. Gonzalez-Hernandez, G. Sarath, J.M. Stein,
V. Owens, K. Gedye, and A. Boe
6 Development and Status of Dedicated Energy
Crops in the United States
Russell W. Jessup
7 Genetic Improvement of C4 Grasses as Cellulosic
Biofuel Feedstocks
Katrin Jakob, Fasong Zhou, and Andrew H. Paterson
8 Short-Rotation Woody Crops for Bioenergy
and Biofuels Applications
Maud Hinchee, William Rottmann, Lauren Mullinax,
Chunsheng Zhang, Shujun Chang, Michael Cunningham,
Leslie Pearson, and Narender Nehra
9 The Brazilian Experience of Sugarcane Ethanol Industry
Sizuo Matsuoka, Jesus Ferro, and Paulo Arruda
10 Biofuels: Opportunities and Challenges in India
Mambully Chandrasekharan Gopinathan and Rajasekaran Sudhakaran
11 Biofuels in China: Opportunities and Challenges
Feng Wang, Xue-Rong Xing, and Chun-Zhao Liu
12 Genetic Modification of Lignin Biosynthesis
for Improved Biofuel Production
Hiroshi Hisano, Rangaraj Nandakumar, and Zeng-Yu Wang
13 Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol:
The Role of Plant-Expressed Enzymes
Manuel B. Sainz
14 Integrated Biorefineries with Engineered Microbes
and High-value Co-products for Profitable
Biofuels Production
W. R. Gibbons and S. R. Hughes
15 Biodiesel Production, Properties, and Feedstocks
Bryan R. Moser
Erratum
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