Biotechnology for Biofuel Production and Optimization

Biotechnology for Biofuel Production and Optimization presents the latest information on biofuel production, an important field of research that seeks to help us reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and decrease our impact on the environment. The book provides an overview of the variety of biofuels and biofuel precursors currently being produced and the technologies developed that are important to improving production rates and titers to become financially relevant for large-scale production. The field of biofuel production has experienced a surge in recent years in response to the imminent need for renewable and cleaner sources of energy. The use of metabolic engineering is imperative for the development of efficient pathways for the production of a number of biofuels in both model and novel organisms. Numerous breakthroughs have developed in the field of biofuel production in recent years, many due to the advent of synthetic biology technologies used for metabolic engineering of microbes. Herein, this book describe the pathways utilized for the production of a variety of promising biofuels, as well as the techniques that are being employed for the improvement of construction, use, titers, and tolerance in a variety of organisms. Provides the latest information on biofuel production, an important field of research that seeks to help us reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and decrease our impact on the environmentCompiles a variety of biofuels pathwaysDiscusses a variety of microorganisms with biomass conversion potential Presents a large selection of engineering strategies INDICE: Biotechnology for Biofuel Production and Optimization Preface 1. Engineering Central Metabolism for Production of Higher Alcohol-based Biofuels 2. Secondary metabolism for isoprenoid-based biofuels 3. Metabolic engineering for fatty acid, biodiesel production 4. Pathway and strain design for biofuels production 5. RNA-based molecular sensors for biosynthetic pathway design, evolution, and optimization 6. Pathway Assembly and Optimization 7. Design of Dynamic Pathways 8. Applications of Constraint-Based Models for Biochemical Production 9. Biotechnological strategies for advanced biofuels production: enhancing tolerance phenotypes through genome-scale modifications 10. Evolutionary Methods for Improving Production of Biorenewable Fuels and Chemicals 11. Biomass utilization 12. Ralstonia eutropha H16 as a platform for the production of biofuels, biodegradable plastics, and fine chemicals from diverse carbon resources 13. Methane Biocatalysis: Selecting the Right Strain 14. Photosynthetic Platform Strain Selection: Strain Selection Considerations and Large Scale Production Limitations 15. Interpreting and designing microbial communities, from components to interactions to emergent properties 16. Cell-free biotransformation 17. Microbial Electrochemical Cells and Biorefinery Energy Efficiency 18. PhotoBioHybrid Solar Conversion with Metalloenzymes and Photosynthetic Reaction Centers 19. Photobioreactors 20. Scale-up Considerations for Biofuels

• ISBN: 978-0-444-63475-7
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés