Must-reads (biofuels department): Biofuels Engineering Process Technology is released

For some time now, I have been depending on a new book called Biofuels Engineering Process Technology, and it’s one work taking a look at for your biofuels book collection.
Filled with a wealth of illustrations, Biofuels Engineering Process Technology  fully explains the key concepts, systems, and technology now being used to produce biofuels on both an industrial and small scale.

The book has classic chapters on ethanol, hydrogen, microbial oils, and methane; but I have been most impressed with the sections on biodiesel from plant and algal oils; and an intriguing section on the the use of microbial fuel cells to produce bioelectricity.

Caye M. Drapcho and Terry Walker of Clemson and Nhuan Phú Nghiêm of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service are the authors. I hadn’t been familiar with their work before. Sheesh, they know their stuff. It’s a book that is unlikely to excite readers of fiction thrillers, but as a go-to reference on process engineering I haven’t had to reach anywhere else for some time, and I suspect you will find it a one-stop, definitive guide to the wizardry of making biofuels.

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