New Title in the RSC Energy Series
The Biofuels Handbook
Edited by James G. Speight
Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum once considered inexhaustible is now being depleted at a rapid rate. The dynamics are now coming into place for the establishment of a synthetic fuels industry. This timely new handbook is written to assist the reader in understanding the various options that are available for the production of synthetic fuel from biological sources. Each chapter contains tables of the chemical and physical properties of the fuels and fuels sources. It is essential that the properties of such materials be presented to understand the nature of the feed-stocks as well as the nature of the products. If a product cannot be employed for its hope-for-use then it must be changed accordingly. The fuels considered include both conventional and unconventional sources with additional chapters on the production and properties of fuels from biomass, crops, wood, domestic and industrial waste and landfill gas.
The handbook will be essential reading for chemical engineers, biotechnologists, environmental and agricultural engineers and all those involved in the synthetic fuels industry.
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