Catalysis for Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability: Biomass Conversion and Green Chemistry - Volume 1
暫譯: 清潔能源與環境永續的催化：生物質轉換與綠色化學 - 第1卷

本書是兩卷本作品的一部分，提供有關基於催化劑的合成過程的現實評估的獨特資訊，並運用綠色化學原則及其在生物質轉換、精煉和石化生產中的環境可持續性應用。這兩卷書提供了來自研究人員、學者以及化學和製造業科學家的最先進技術和綠色化學方法的綜合資源。本書將吸引清潔能源催化、綠色化學、化學工程與製造以及環境可持續性領域的教授、研究人員和實務工作者的興趣。

本卷專注於催化在生物質轉換和增值化學品生產方面的潛力、近期進展和未來前景。讀者將接觸到一個機制框架，評估針對生物質及其衍生原料轉換的產品選擇性催化過程的發展。本書獨特地結合了在實驗室規模和工業催化過程中工作的專家的貢獻，並提供了對各種催化材料（例如，礦酸、雜多酸、金屬催化劑、沸石、金屬氧化物）在清潔能源生產和環境可持續性中的應用的深入見解。

Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant is a Petrotech Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Delhi, and also Joint faculty CRDT, IIT Delhi, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Saskatchewan as well as Honorary Faculty at the University of Queensland, Australia. Prof. Pant's research contribution involves a wide range of innovative studies covering both theoretical and experimental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis for hydrocarbon conversion, CO₂ capture and conversion, coal to chemical, bioenergy, waste to wealth, and value-added chemicals. Prof. Pant has 30 years of research and teaching experience during which he published 160+ Journal articles, book chapters, and patents, having more than 8000 citations and is granted several national and international patents. Most of Prof. Pant's research work is aligned with the internationally-focused research areas that include the development of coal to methanol process, CO₂ capture, and conversion, disposal of e-waste and precious metals recovery, waste plastic to liquid fuel technology, as well as biofuels production from residual agro biomass to thwart stubble burning. Prof. Pant is amongst the leading researchers in India working on solving the problems of accumulating electronic waste. Besides, Prof. Pant has extensively worked to develop novel catalysts for the direct conversion of Natural gas to pure hydrogen and Carbon nanotubes. Prof. Pant has also significantly contributed to developing novel catalysts for the dry reforming of methane and steam/oxidative steam reforming of Bioethanol and Bio-oil compounds, converting plastic waste and biomass to value-added chemicals which are highly appreciable in utilizing renewable sources in the country.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Gupta is the Technical Superintendent of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Dr. Gupta started his research carrier in 1999 at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His doctoral degree was awarded in 2010. Later, he did his post-doctoral research at Durban University, South Africa. He had been recognized three times as "One of the Top Publisher Post-Doc Fellow" in 2014, 2016, and 2017 for his active research contribution for his post-doctoral research. Dr. Gupta has co-edited three books published from Springer, Netherlands. His first book, "Algal Biofuels" is among one of the top downloaded books in the subject since 2017. Dr. Gupta has authored 81 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books, has presented 17 papers in the national and international conference. He was an Editor for the 'Journal of Ecophysiology and Occupational Health' and is a life member of many professional societies, including the International Society of Environmental Botanists, Society of Toxicology, Academy of Environmental Biology, and the Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research. His research interests include ecotoxicological risk assessment, bioremediation of water and wastewater, algal biotechnology, and biofuels.

Dr. Ejaz Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. Dr. Ahmad completed his master's and doctoral thesis from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has also been a visiting research scholar to Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Germany, for a year as a recipient of the "German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Bi-national research grant." Moreover, he was awarded "Prime Minister Fellowship for Doctoral Research" for carrying out industrially relevant research. Dr. Ahmad has also been awarded the "Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI)" from the honorable President of India in 2018 on biofuels production and appreciated this year (2020) on E-waste conversion. He was also awarded the "FITT Award for Best Industrially Relevant Thesis" by IIT Delhi for his work on "Understanding the Role of Catalyst Materials and Process Conditions in Biorenewable Transformations." Dr. Ahmad's research is focused on the development processes to produce alkyl levulinates as "Green Gasoline" from biorenewable resources, which are used as a fuel additive. The broad area of his research is based on the concept of "Waste to Wealth Technologies," which involves agro residue conversion, waste plastic, and e-waste conversion. His research has led to a detailed mechanistic insight into the bioprocessing of materials, experimentation, validation, and optimization of process parameters for providing optimum product yield. The conceptual insight was elaborated in a critical review published in the RSC journal "Green Chemistry," which was highlighted on its front cover. His two other papers have also been highlighted in "Green Chemistry" and the "ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering" journal. As a recognition of his work, he hasbeen given the membership of various national and international societies such as MRSC from Royal Society of Chemistry UK, Membership of Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK, Membership of Materials Research Society, USA, Membership of American Chemical Society and Life Membership of IIChE, India.

教授Kamal Kishore Pant是德里印度理工學院（IIT Delhi）石油技術講座教授及化學工程系主任，同時也是德里印度理工學院CRDT的聯合教職員、薩斯喀徹溫大學的兼任教職員，以及澳大利亞昆士蘭大學的榮譽教職員。Pant教授的研究貢獻涵蓋了多種創新研究，涉及碳氫化合物轉化的非均相催化劑的理論與實驗方面、二氧化碳（CO₂）捕集與轉化、煤轉化為化學品、生物能源、廢物轉化為財富及增值化學品等。Pant教授擁有30年的研究與教學經驗，期間發表了160多篇期刊文章、書籍章節及專利，引用次數超過8000次，並獲得多項國內外專利。Pant教授的大部分研究工作與國際聚焦的研究領域相一致，包括煤轉化為甲醇的過程、二氧化碳捕集與轉化、電子廢物處理及貴金屬回收、廢塑料轉化為液體燃料技術，以及從剩餘農業生物質中生產生物燃料，以防止稻草焚燒。Pant教授是印度在解決電子廢物積累問題方面的領先研究者之一。此外，Pant教授還廣泛研究了天然氣直接轉化為純氫和碳納米管的新型催化劑。Pant教授在幹重整甲烷及生物乙醇和生物油化合物的蒸汽/氧化蒸汽重整方面也做出了重要貢獻，將塑料廢物和生物質轉化為增值化學品，這在利用可再生資源方面受到高度讚賞。

Sanjay Kumar Gupta博士是德里印度理工學院土木工程系的環境工程技術主管。Gupta博士於1999年在印度盧克瑙的CSIR-印度毒理研究所開始他的研究生涯，並於2010年獲得博士學位。之後，他在南非德班大學進行了博士後研究。他在2014年、2016年和2017年三次被認可為「最佳出版博士後研究員之一」，以表彰他在博士後研究中的積極貢獻。Gupta博士共同編輯了三本由荷蘭Springer出版的書籍。他的第一本書《藻類生物燃料》自2017年以來成為該領域下載量最高的書籍之一。Gupta博士在同行評審的期刊和書籍中發表了81篇文章，並在國內外會議上發表了17篇論文。他曾擔任《生態生理學與職業健康期刊》的編輯，並是多個專業學會的終身會員，包括國際環境植物學會、毒理學會、環境生物學會及印度土壤污染研究網絡。他的研究興趣包括生態毒理風險評估、水和廢水的生物修復、藻類生物技術和生物燃料。

Ejaz Ahmad博士是德漢巴德印度理工學院（ISM）化學工程系的助理教授。Ahmad博士在德里印度理工學院化學工程系完成了碩士和博士論文。他還曾作為「德國學術交流服務（DAAD）雙邊研究獎學金」的獲得者，前往德國Fraunhofer UMSICHT進行為期一年的訪問研究。此外，他因進行與工業相關的研究而獲得「總理博士研究獎學金」。Ahmad博士於2018年因生物燃料生產獲得印度總統頒發的「甘地青年技術創新獎（GYTI）」，並於2020年因電子廢物轉化受到讚賞。他還因其在「理解催化劑材料和過程條件在生物可再生轉化中的作用」方面的工作而獲得德里印度理工學院頒發的「最佳工業相關論文FITT獎」。Ahmad博士的研究專注於開發從生物可再生資源中生產作為燃料添加劑的烷基乙酸酯（alkyl levulinates）作為「綠色汽油」的過程。他的研究廣泛基於「廢物轉化為財富技術」的概念，涉及農業殘留物轉化、廢塑料和電子廢物轉化。他的研究提供了材料生物處理的詳細機制洞察、實驗、驗證及過程參數的優化，以提供最佳產品產量。這一概念洞察在RSC期刊《綠色化學》中發表的關鍵評論中詳細闡述，並在封面上突出顯示。他的另外兩篇論文也在《綠色化學》和《ACS可持續化學與工程》期刊中受到關注。作為對其工作的認可，他獲得了多個國內外學會的會員資格，如英國皇家化學學會的MRSC、英國化學工程師學會、美国材料研究学会、美国化学学会及印度化學工程師學会的终身会员。