Bioenergy.9781555814786 Bioenergy. Ed. by Judy D. Wall et al. ASM (1) (Association for Systems Management) An international membership organization based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1947 and disbanded in 1996, it sponsored conferences in all phases of administrative systems and management. Press 2008 437 pages $149.95 Hardcover TP339 We now know a great deal about the environmental and political effects of fossil fuels, and we are starting to learn more about what feeding the tank rather than feeding people with agricultural products is doing. This collection of articles explains how the next generation of fuels could be led by energy generated by microbes. The alternatives include bioethanol, which can be generated by corn, sugar cane, biomass conversion, engineering of the Pichia stiptis genome for fermentation, biomass sources, including cellulose biomass using thermophilic ther·mo·phil·ic adj. Requiring high temperatures for normal development, as certain bacteria. bacteria, mesophilic bacteria, carbohydrate-active enzymes, and synthesis gas; methane from acetate, mixed-culture processing, gas hydrates and biowaste; methanol from biomass and other sources; hydrogen from hydrogenase hy·drog·e·nase n. An enzyme in certain microorganisms that catalyzes the formation of hydrogen. hydrogenase an enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of various substances by combining them with molecular hydrogen. engineering, purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria ad water-splitting; microbial fuel cells; organic solvents, including butanol bu·ta·nol n. Either of two butyl alcohols derived from butane and used as solvents and in organic synthesis. [butan(e) + -ol1. fermentation; microbial microbial pertaining to or emanating from a microbe. microbial digestion the breakdown of organic material, especially feedstuffs, by microbial organisms. oil recovery from mature reservoirs; and the exploitation of microbial genomes for energy production. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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