Contents
1 Biofuel Production Technologies, Comparing the Biofuels
and Fossil Fuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Zahra Shahi and Mohammad Khajeh Mehrizi
2 Microbiological Aspects of Bioenergy Production: Recent Update
and Future Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Veer Singh, Ritesh Tiwari, Vivek Kumar Chaturvedi, Nidhi Singh,
and Vishal Mishra
3 A Comprehensive Review on Microbial Technology for Biogas
Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
S. Sivamani, B. Saikat, B. S. Naveen Prasad,
Asraar Ahmed Salim Baalawy, and Said Mohammed Alabd Al-Mashali
4 Biohydrogen Production from Biomass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Lekshmi Gangadhar, Nalluri Abhishek, Putti Venkata Siva Teja,
T. O. Daniel, Siva Sankar Sana, G. R. Arpitha, and Anima Nanda
5 Recent Updates of Biodiesel Production: Source, Production
Methods, and Metagenomic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Nidhi Singh, Veer Singh, and Mohan P. Singh
6 Process Modelling and Simulation of Biodiesel Synthesis Reaction
for Non-edible Yellow Oleander (Yellow Bells) Oil and Waste
Chicken Fat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Selvaraju Sivamani, Ayyanar Manickam, Subramaniam Karthiban,
Shanmugam Karthikeyan, and Muthusamy Balajii
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