Bioenergy: Impacts on Environment and Economy

本書探討了生物能源對環境和經濟的影響。書中內容包括對多個主題的貢獻，例如乳化生物燃料對環境的影響、當前生物質能源使用的環境影響、生態系統中的可持續發展、微生物燃料電池的趨勢以及生物燃料生產的生態和經濟影響等。此外，本書還使用視覺元素來輔助學習。本書是對於對替代燃料、可持續性、清潔能源、生物燃料生產、廢物管理、環境污染、可再生能源及相關領域感興趣的研究人員、學者和業界專業人士來說，都是一本寶貴的實用資源。

Prof. Praveen Kumar Ramanujam an undergraduate in chemical engineering and postgraduate in industrial biotechnology from Annamalai University, is working as Head of the Department in Department of Biotechnology, Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India. His area of research includes renewable energy from biomass and municipal waste. He chaired the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th International Conference on Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies. He has organized various national-level symposiums and conferences and served on the scientific advisory committees of several national and international events. He visited EPFL, Switzerland, as Visiting Researcher in the Bioenergy and Energy Planning Research Group from October to November 2018. He has visited multiple countries, including the USA, Australia, China, Switzerland, Italy, Hong Kong and Bangladesh, to attend variousconferences. He has chaired sessions and delivered invited talks in various national and international conferences. He has provisional registrations for four patents. He has published more than 65 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 17 book chapters and seven edited books and delivered 12 invited lectures and presentations and 33 other presentations. He was invited as a resource person for 10 national and international forums. He is Life Member in various professional societies, including BRSI, IIChE, IBA-IFIBiop, BigFin, ISTE, and EWB India. He has served as Management Council Member in BRSI. He was awarded with the ISTE-Syed Sajid Ali National Award for outstanding research work in the field of Renewable Energy for the year 2017, award instituted by the Indian Society for Technical Education, and "Outstanding Young Investigator Award" for excellence in research and teaching in a rural setting, awarded by RAISE Rural.
Dr. Binod Parameswaran is currently working as Principal Scientist in the Microbial Processes and Technology Division of CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India. He obtained a Ph.D. in biotechnology from the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Later, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea, and later joined as Scientist at CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India. His areas of interest include sustainable bioprocesses, biomass to fuels and chemicals, biopolymers, and enzyme technology. He has more than 210 research publications with an h-index of 48. He has published five books and 80 book chapters. His name is listed in the world'stop 2% scientists for the whole career as per the study by Stanford University and Elsevier BV. He has received several awards and fellowships, including the Young Scientist Award from International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses, France; Kerala State Young Scientist Award from Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment; Prof. S. B. Chincholkar Memorial Award of the Biotech Research Society, India; Pandey Research Excellence Award from IBA; Elsevier Impactful Research Award; Elsevier Renewable Energy Best Paper Award; Visiting Fellowship, EPFL, Switzerland and Marie Curie Fellowship, among others. He is a Fellow of International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ISEES). He is an Editorial Board Member of Bioresource Technology, Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, Bioengineered and Frontiers. He is a National Honorary Advisory Board Member of Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (CEES), India; Central Office Executive of the Biotech Research Society, India and Indian Coordinator of International Bioprocessing Association.
Dr. B. Bharathiraja is working as Head of the Department in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Vel Tech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, India. He has more than 14 years of experience in teaching. His area of research includes biofuels from biomass and municipal waste. He has published more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, two books, and seven book chapters. He has served as the Chief Editor of International Journal of Bioprocess Technology and Polymer Sciences, the Editorial Board Member in various journals and the International Scientific Advisory Committee Member in the 2012 Asian Biohydrogen and Bioproducts Symposium (ABBS), conducted by Chongqing University between 9 and 12 November 2012 in Chongqing, China. He has visited various countries, including the USA, China, Bangladesh and Hong Kong, to attend international conferences. He has chaired sessions and delivered invited talks in various international conferences, including the conference on "Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies (BEST)--2013, 2015 and 2017 Tiruvannamalai India". He is Life Member in various professional societies, such as BRSI, IIChE, BigFin, ISTE and EFB.
Dr. A. Magesh is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu, India, with more than 18 years of experience. He completed his bachelor's in chemical engineering, master's in industrial biotechnology, and Ph.D. from Annamalai University. His area of research includes biotechnology. He has chaired multiple sessions and delivered invited talks in various national and international conferences, including conferences in Malaysia . He has published more than 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is Life Member in several professional societies, including the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE). He has also organized an entrepreneurship program for students of science and engineering, funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi.

普拉維恩·庫馬爾·拉馬努詹教授擁有安納馬萊大學的化學工程學士學位及工業生物技術碩士學位，目前擔任印度泰米爾納德邦提魯瓦南馬萊阿魯奈工程學院生物技術系系主任。他的研究領域包括從生物質和市政廢物中獲取可再生能源。他主持了第一、二、三、四和第五屆國際生物能源、環境與可持續技術會議。他組織了多個國家級的研討會和會議，並在多個國內外活動的科學諮詢委員會中任職。他於2018年10月至11月期間，作為訪問研究員前往瑞士洛桑聯邦理工學院的生物能源與能源規劃研究小組進行研究。他曾訪問多個國家，包括美國、澳大利亞、中國、瑞士、義大利、香港和孟加拉，參加各種會議。他在多個國內外會議中擔任會議主席並發表邀請演講。他擁有四項專利的臨時註冊。他在同行評審的期刊上發表了超過65篇論文，17個書章和七本編輯書籍，並進行了12場邀請講座和33場其他演講。他被邀請作為10個國內外論壇的資源人員。他是多個專業學會的終身會員，包括BRSI、IIChE、IBA-IFIBiop、BigFin、ISTE和EWB India。他曾擔任BRSI的管理委員會成員。他於2017年獲得印度技術教育學會頒發的可再生能源領域傑出研究工作的ISTE-Syed Sajid Ali國家獎，以及由RAISE Rural頒發的在農村環境中研究和教學卓越的「傑出青年研究者獎」。

賓諾德·帕拉梅斯瓦蘭博士目前擔任印度特里凡得琅CSIR國家跨學科科學與技術研究所微生物過程與技術部的首席科學家。他在印度特里凡得琅的喀拉拉大學獲得生物技術博士學位。之後，他在韓國大田的韓國能源研究所擔任博士後研究員，隨後加入CSIR國家跨學科科學與技術研究所擔任科學家。他的研究興趣包括可持續生物過程、生物質轉化為燃料和化學品、生物聚合物和酶技術。他擁有超過210篇研究出版物，h指數為48。他出版了五本書和80個書章。根據史丹佛大學和Elsevier BV的研究，他的名字被列入全球前2%的科學家名單。他獲得了多項獎項和獎學金，包括法國國際工業生物過程論壇的青年科學家獎；喀拉拉邦科學、技術與環境委員會的喀拉拉邦青年科學家獎；印度生物技術研究學會的S.B. Chincholkar紀念獎；IBA的Pandey研究卓越獎；Elsevier影響力研究獎；Elsevier可再生能源最佳論文獎；瑞士EPFL的訪問獎學金和瑪麗·居里獎學金等。他是國際能源、環境與可持續性學會（ISEES）的院士。他是《Bioresource Technology》、《Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering》、《Bioengineered》和《Frontiers》的編輯委員會成員。他是印度能源與環境可持續性中心（CEES）的國家榮譽諮詢委員會成員；印度生物技術研究學會的中央辦公室執行委員；以及國際生物過程協會的印度協調員。

B. 巴拉提拉賈博士目前擔任印度金奈Vel Tech高科技Rangarajan博士與Sakunthala工程學院化學工程系系主任。他擁有超過14年的經驗。