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Employing Novel Techniques (Microwave and Sonochemistry) in the Synthesis of Biodiesel and Bioethanol

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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ultrasound

Part of the book series: Biofuels and Biorefineries ((BIOBIO,volume 4))

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Energy crisis and environmental deterioration are the twin problems facing the mankind. Alternate energy sources, especially, biofuels (biodiesel and bioethanol) produced from renewable sources like biomass would alleviate the problem to some extent. Fast and demand based production of biofuels is the need of the hour. Transesterification is the crucial chemical reaction for biodeisel production. Likewise, biomass pretreatment, hydrolysis of carbohydrates and fermentation of sugars are vital in bioethanol production. Interestingly, both the unconventional techniques, sonication and microwave irradiation were found to be extremely useful in accelerating the afore mentioned reactions holding a promise for making sustainable biorefinery possible. The present chapter fully covered the work on carrying out the biodiesel synthesis employing Sonochemistry , however, the use of MW radiation for the synthesis of biodiesel was limited to solid base catalysts. The second part of the chapter was devoted to the use of MW and sonochemistry for the synthesis of bioethanol.

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Gedanken thanks the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) for the research grant 3-9802 and the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) for supporting the research via a grant 12/586.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Indra Neel Pulidindi & Aharon Gedanken

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Pulidindi, I.N., Gedanken, A. (2015). Employing Novel Techniques (Microwave and Sonochemistry) in the Synthesis of Biodiesel and Bioethanol. In: Fang, Z., Smith, Jr., R., Qi, X. (eds) Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ultrasound. Biofuels and Biorefineries, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9624-8_6

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