Part I: Sustainability and Technical Challenges
1 Fermentable Sugars from Ligno-cellulosic Biomass: Technical Challenges
Ravichandra Potumarthi, Rama Raju Baadhe and Sankar Bhattacharya
2 Sustainability Assessment of Palm Biodiesel Production in Thailand
Thapat Silalertruksa and Shabbir H. Gheewala
Part II: Pretreatment Technologies
3 Progress in Physical and Chemical Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass
Keikhosor Karimi, Marzieh Shafiei and Rajeev Kumar
4 Acid Pretreatment Technologies and SEM Analysis of Treated Grass Biomass in Biofuel Processing
Anthonia O'Donovan, Vijai K. Gupta, Jessica M. Coyne and Maria G. Tuohy
Part III: Conversion Technologies
5 The Role of Fungal Enzymes in Global Biofuel Production Technologies
Jessica M. Coyne, Vijai K. Gupta, Anthonia O' Donovon and Maria G. Tuohy
6 Progress on Enzymatic Saccharification Technologies for Biofuels Production
Pablo Alvira, Mercedes Ballesteros and María José Negro
7 Microbial Glycoside Hydrolases for Biomass Utilization in Biofuels Applications
Gashaw Mamo, Reza Faryar and Eva Nordberg Karlsson
8 Developing Cellulolytic Organisms for Consolidated Bioprocessing of Lignocellulosics
Willem H. van Zyl, Riaan den Haan and Daniel C. la Grange
Part IV: Biofuel Resources
9 Potential Bio-resources as Future Sources of Biofuels Production: An Overview
L. Veeranjaneya Reddy
10 Second Generation Bio-ethanol and Renewable Chemicals from Lignocellulosics
Sudip Kumar Rakshit
Part V: Biofuels, Co-products and Associated Technologies
11 Fermentative Bio-hydrogen Production using Microbial Consortia
Radhika Singh
12 Bio-hydrogen As Biofuel: Future Prospects and Avenues for Improvements
Jahangir Imam, Puneet Kumar Singh and Pratyoosh Shukla
13 Biohydrogen Production From Microalgae
Dheeraj Rathore and Anoop Singh
14 Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Bioenergy Generation: Principles and Perspective Applications
S. Venkata Mohan, S. Srikanth, G. Velvizhi and M. Lenin Babu
15 Biomethanation Potential of Biological and Other Wastes
J.C. Costa, D.Z. Sousa, M.A. Pereira, A.J.M. Stams and M.M. Alves
16 Production of Bioethanol from Biomass: An Overview
Óscar J. Sánchez and Sandra Montoya
17 Biobutanol Production from Biomass
Johanna Niemistö, Paula Saavalainen, Ritva Isomäki, Tanja Kolli, Mika Huuhtanen, and Riitta L. Keiski
18 Life-cycle Environmental Impacts of Biofuels and Co-products
Matthew Borkowski, Gregory Zaimes and Vikas Khanna
19 The Principle and Applications of Bioelectrochemical Systems
Zhiyong (Jason) Ren