Biofuels Production and Processing Technology

The negative global warming impact and environmental pollution due to fossil fuels mean that the main challenge of modern society is finding alternatives conventional fuels. In this scenario, biofuels derived from renewable biomass represent most promising energy sources. Depending on used by fermentation technologies, it possible obtain first-generation produced food crops, second-generation non-food feedstock, mainly starting lignocellulosic biomasses, third-generation biofuels, represented algae or waste biomass. Although appear be closest alternative fuels, necessary for them in competitive quantities costs, requiring both improvements production technologies diversification feedstock. This Special Issue focused technological innovations, which include but are not limited utilization different feedstock; pretreatments; strategies, such as simultaneous saccharification (SSF) separate hydrolysis (SHF); applied microorganisms monoculture co-culture; setups biofuel processes.