Advances in Biodiesel Production: Processes and Technologies includes:

• advances in the development of biodiesel fuels, production processes and technologies
• life cycle sustainability assessment and socio-economic and environmental policy issues associated with advanced biodiesel production, as well as feedstocks and fuel quality standards
• development of methods and catalysts essential to the improvement and optimisation of biodiesel production processes and technologies

Contents

1. Introduction to advanced biodiesel production

• Processes and technologies for advanced biodiesel production
• New feedstocks for second generation biodiesel production
• Glycerol as by-product of biodiesel production

Part 1: Fundamental Issues and Assessment in Advanced Biodiesel Production

2. Life cycle sustainability assessment of second generation biodiesel

• Environmental sustainability of biodiesel
• Socio-economic sustainability of biodiesel

3. Socio-economic, environmental and policy perspectives of advanced biodiesel production

• Socio-economic, environmental and policy limitations of st generation biodiesel
• Economic potentials and limitations of nd and rd generation biodiesel
• New impacts on energy security
• New impacts on land and food safety
• Effects on international trade and sustainable development
• What are the right policies for next generation biodiesel?

4. Feedstocks for advanced biodiesel production

• Feedstocks for first generation biodiesel
• Feedstocks for second generation biodiesel
• Other feedstocks for biodiesel production
• Feedstocks for advanced biodiesel production

5. Advances in biodiesel quality control, characterisation and standards development

• Characterisation, analysis techniques and quality control of feedstocks
• Characterisation, analysis techniques and quality control of biodiesel
• Development of standards for biodiesel quality and use

Part 2: Advanced Biodiesel Production Processes and Technologies

6. Advances in biodiesel catalysts and processing technologies

• Current production technologies for biodiesel
• New types of Catalysts
• Innovative reaction conditions
• Advanced biodiesel reactor design
• Production of biodiesel with simultaneous derivation of glycerol
• In-situ transesterification

7. Biodiesel from waste oils and fats

• Waste oils and fats
• Technologies for biodiesel production from waste lipids
• Advantages and limitations

8. Biodiesel from microbial oil

• Heterotrophic microorganisms for oil production
• Carbon sources for microorganism production
• Biodiesel production from heterotrophic microorganisms
• Suitability of biodiesel
• Enhancement of microbial oil production

9. Microalgae processing for biodiesel production

• Microalgae biomass downstream processing
• Cell disruption methods
• Lipids extraction from microalgae
• Advanced biodiesel production from microalgae
• Process integration: the biorefinery concept

10. Valorisation of the glycerol by-product from biodiesel production

• Composition and purification of glycerol produced from biodiesel
• Applications and valorisation of glycerol
• Advantages and limitations of the use of crude glycerol of biodiesel production

Appendix: supply chains, techno-economic assessment and market development for second generation biodiesel

• Second generation biodiesel supply chains
• Enterprise input–output model for second generation biodiesel supply chain analysis
• Emerging second generation biodiesel feedstock markets and their coordination

Index

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