Biorenewable Resources : Engineering New Products from Agriculture
Biorenewable Resources was originally published in 2003 as a textbook to support a
new interdisciplinary graduate program in Biorenewable Resources and Technology
at Iowa State University. This was two years before the passage of the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 launched the biofuels boom in the United States. At the time
there was relatively little current scientific literature to support the preparation of
the book due to many of the sources dating back a decade or more. The field has
grown tremendously since then, encouraging the publication of a second edition
of Biorenewable Resources.
As with the first edition, the second edition is intended as a text for upper level
undergraduate students and first year graduate students in science and engineering
who are seeking a broad perspective of the emerging field of biorenewable resources.
Traditional academic disciplines are organized to provide students in-depth training
and intellectual focus in a single field such as agriculture, chemistry, engineering,
environmental science, or economics. Biorenewable Resources brings together these
disciplines to provide students with an appropriate system perspective valued by
prospective employers and those seeking to work in this field.
The thirteen chapters of this book do not assume any previous training in biorenewable
resources, although most students should have undergraduate training in
science or engineering. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the field of biorenewable
resources, which includes a brief history of the use of biorenewable resources and
a description of the motivations for advancing the biobased products industry.
Chapters 2 and 3 provide fundamental concepts of engineering thermodynamics
and organic chemistry important to understanding bioenergy and biobased products.
These two chapters are aimed at students who may have deficiencies in these
concepts or who desire a review of the topics. The chapter on engineering thermodynamics
includes expanded descriptions of mass and molar balances applied to
conversion, yield, and selectivity of chemical reactions. It also includes discussions
on energy return on energy invested and the role of exothermic versus endothermic
reactions in the manufacture of energy products. Chemical equilibrium receives
more extensive treatment than in the first edition.The chapter on organic chemistry
includes descriptions of anhydrosugars, important in thermochemical conversion
of carbohydrate-rich biomass, and lignin chemical composition. Chapter 4 is a description of biorenewable resources. This chapter includes sections
that defines the resource base, categorizes the different kinds of biorenewable
resources, including both waste materials and dedicated energy crops, describes
properties that are important to the handling and processing of biorenewable
resources, provides information on yields of various kinds of biomass, and assesses
the availability of different kinds of biorenewable resources. The second edition
includes extensive coverage of oleaginous (lipid-rich) biomass such as microalgae.
Chapter 5 is an introduction to production of biorenewable resources. In addition
to descriptions of growing and harvesting herbaceous energy crops and short
rotation woody crops, the second edition describes cultivation and recovery of
microalgae, considered a promising aquatic species for production of biofuels and
biobased products. This chapter also includes descriptions of storage systems and
the prospects for using transgenic crops in production of biorenewable resources.
Chapter 6 is an introduction to the wide array of bioenergy and biobased products
that are currently produced or anticipated frombiorenewable resources.Major topics
in this chapter include process heat, biopower, biofuels, commodity chemicals,
synthetic biopolymers (new to the second edition), and natural fibers.
The next four chapters are devoted to the processes by which biorenewable
resources are transformed into bioenergy and biobased products. Chapter 7 focuses
on biochemical conversion of carbohydrate-rich feedstocks to ethanol and other
products, including hydrocarbons (new to the second edition). Chapter 8 describes
thermochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. The second edition expands
coverage of gasification technology to include syngas cleaning and catalytic upgrading
to fuels and chemicals. Considering the increasing interest in pyrolysis as a
pathway to biofuels, this topic has been expanded to include fundamentals of pyrolysis,
different kinds of pyrolysis processes and equipment, and catalytic upgrading
of bio-oil to biofuels. Solvolysis has been added as an alternative approach to
producing bio-oil or sugars. Chapter 9 considers both biochemical and thermochemical
processes for the conversion of oleaginous biomass into fuels and other
products. Chapter 10 explains how natural fibers can be separated from biorenewable
resources for use in the manufacture of paper and building materials.
The final three chapters deal with environmental, economic, and policy issues.
Chapter 11 describes the environmental impact of producing and processing biorenewable
resources and using the resulting products. Extensive discussion of land
use change (both direct and indirect) associated with production of biofuels is
included in the new edition. Chapter 11 also describes environmental concerns
associated with the use of transgenic crops as biorenewable resources. Chapter 12,
an introduction to the economics of biorenewable resources, has been extensively
updated to reflect current methodologies in technoeconomic analysis of biorenewables.
The chapter includes separate discussions on estimating the costs of
producing crops and manufacturing biobased products. The chapter concludes
with specific cost estimates for various biobased products. Chapter 13, new to the
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second edition, explores the role of government policy in promoting the adoption
of biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels and imported petroleum. The chapter
describes the various policies employed by governments around the world to
promote bioenergy.
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