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Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass and Upgrading
of Bio-Products to Produce Fuels and Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Hessam Jahangiri, João Santos, Andreas Hornung, and Miloud Ouadi
Biochemical Conversion of Residual Biomass: An Approach
to Fuel Gas and Green Fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Carmen Mateescu and Andreea-Daniela Dima
Bio-Catalytic Itaconic Acid and Bio-Based Vinyl Monomer
Production Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Kalpana Avasthi, Ashish Bohre, Basudeb Saha, and Blaž Likozar
Biological and Environmental Degradations of Polyamides,
Polylactic Acid, and Chitin for Future Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Mohammad Asif Ali, Sukhdev Singh, Maninder Singh, and Gargi Joshi
Plant Microbial Fuel Cell as a Biomass Conversion Technology
for Sustainable Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
D. A. Jadhav, D. Ghosal, A. D. Chendake, S. Pandit, and T. K. Sajana
Catalytic and Non-Catalytic Hydrothermal Liquefaction
of Microalgae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Eleazer P. Resurreccion and Sandeep Kumar
Catalytic and Non-Catalytic Methods for Biodiesel Production . . . . . . . . 185
Zakir Hussain, Mohd Belal Haider, Mata Mani Tripathi, and
Rakesh Kumar
Castor Oil-Based Derivatives as a Raw Material for the
Chemical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Sagar Dhanuskar, S. N. Naik, and K. K. Pant
Sustainability of the Catalytic Process for Biomass Conversion:
Recent Trends and Future Prospects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Rohidas Bhoi, Virendra Kumar Saharan, Suja George, and Sonal