The biofuels. State of the art, perspectives and challenges of the development

This book presents the development challenges of the biofuels and proposes an exhaustive state of their production and their consumption in the world. It describes the different production channels and details the used technologies, the economical and environmental aspects of the processes and the characteristics of the manufactured products. It presents also the new channels which use the lignocellulosic biomass as raw materials. (A.L.B.)