Written by a team of international experts, Biofuels Refining and Performance describes the refining processes and issues involved in producing fuel derived from recently living organisms or their by-products. Each chapter offers detailed discussion of theory as well as the actual experimental procedure used to economically manufacture biofuels on a commercial scale.

• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Energy and Its Biological Resources
• Chapter 2. Photosynthetic Plants as Renewable Energy Sources
• Chapter 3. Bioethanol: Market and Production Processes
• Chapter 4. Raw Materials to Produce Low-Cost Biodiesel
• Chapter 5. Fuel and Physical Properties of Biodiesel Components
• Chapter 6. Processing of Vegetable Oils as Biodiesel and Engine Performance
• Chapter 7. Ethanol and Methanol as Fuels in Internal Combustion Engines
• Chapter 8. Cracking of Lipids for Fuels and Chemicals
• Chapter 9. Fuel Cells
• Appendix
• Index