Biotecnología sostenible

Sustainable Biotechnology

Om V. Singh · Steven P. Harvey
Editors

Sustainable Biotechnology
Sources of Renewable Energy

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Editors Om V. Singh University of Pittsburgh Bradford, PA 16701 USA

Steven P. Harvey U.S. Army Chemical Biological Center Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010 USA

ISBN 978-90-481-3294-2 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3295-9 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3295-9 SpringerDordrecht Heidelberg London New York
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The editors gratefully dedicate this book to Daisaku Ikeda in appreciation for his encouragement to us.

Contents

Heat and Mass Transport in Processing ofLignocellulosic Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sridhar Viamajala, Bryon S. Donohoe, Stephen R. Decker, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael J. Selig, Michael E. Himmel, and Melvin P. Tucker Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaorong Wu, James McLaren, Ron Madl, and Donghai Wang Environmentally Sustainable Biofuels – The Case forBiodiesel, Biobutanol and Cellulosic Ethanol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Palligarnai T. Vasudevan, Michael D. Gagnon, and Michael S. Briggs Biotechnological Applications of Hemicellulosic Derived Sugars: State-of-the-Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anuj K. Chandel, Om V. Singh, and L.Venkateswar Rao Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER) . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . James J. Valdes and Jerry B. Warner Production of Methane Biogas as Fuel Through Anaerobic Digestion . . Zhongtang Yu and Floyd L. Schanbacher Waste to Renewable Energy: A Sustainable and Green Approach Towards Production of Biohydrogen by Acidogenic Fermentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Venkata Mohan Bacterial Communities in VariousConditions of the Composting Reactor Revealed by 16S rDNA Clone Analysis and DGGE . . . . . . . Keiko Watanabe, Norio Nagao, Tatsuki Toda, and Norio Kurosawa Perspectives on Bioenergy and Biofuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elinor L. Scott, A. Maarten J. Kootstra, and Johan P.M. Sanders Perspectives on Chemicals from Renewable Resources . . . . . . . . . . Elinor L. Scott, Johan P.M.Sanders, and Alexander Steinbüchel

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Microbial Lactic Acid Production from Renewable Resources . . . . . . Yebo Li and Fengjie Cui Microbial Production of Potent Phenolic-Antioxidants Through Solid State Fermentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Silvia Martins, Diego Mercado, Marco Mata-Gómez, LuisRodriguez, Antonio Aguilera-Carbo, Raul Rodriguez, and Cristóbal N. Aguilar Photoautotrophic Production of Astaxanthin by the Microalga Haematococcus pluvialis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Esperanza Del Río, F. Gabriel Acién, and Miguel G. Guerrero Enzymatic Synthesis of Heparin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renpeng Liu and Jian Liu Extremophiles: Sustainable Resource ofNatural Compounds-Extremolytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raj Kumar, Dev Dutt Patel, Deen Dayal Bansal, Saurabh Mishra, Anis Mohammed, Rajesh Arora, Ashok Sharma, Rakesh Kumar Sharma, and Rajendra Prasad Tripathi Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Contributors

F. Gabriel Acién Department...