Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture by Robert C. Brown

Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture

Features

Cover Type: Hard Cover with 286 pages

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 1st Edition April 11, 2003

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0813822637

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813822631

Book Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.3 x 1 inches

Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Review
“promises to become the intellectual and technical gateway to a sustainable, renewable resource-based industrial society.” --Wolfgang G. Glasser, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

Product Description
Immense potential for sustainable development lies in the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials from bioresources. This timely book provides comprehensive coverage of the engineering systems that convert agricultural crops and residues into bioenergy and biobased products.

Leading the way as the first textbook for coursework on biobased products, Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture covers not only pertinent technologies but offers a primer on necessary foundation subjects the student or other reader may lack: organic chemistry, thermodynamics, plant science, crop production, environmental science, and process economics. Of special value to those working or planning to work in the field are compilations of bioresource properties, such as

production yields,
bulk densities and moisture content,
summative analysis of plant materials, and
chemical conversion yields.

By defining this multi-disciplinary field—at the interface between agricultural sciences and process engineering—Robert C. Brown has produced an introductory textbook that also serves as a handbook for agronomists, engineers, chemists, and environmentalists.

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