The Concise Encyclopedia of Bioresource Technology is a unique resource for state-of-the-art research findings on biotechnological innovations and their potential for commercial exploitation. This comprehensive reference gives you immediate access to information on the application of bioresource technology as it relates to industrial, food, and environmental biotechnology. Practitioners, academics, and researchers representing a wide range of disciplines examine vital issues including the production and applications of microbial enzymes and organic acids, fermentation, wastewater treatment, and air pollution. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.
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Biotechnology
Biodiversity
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Professional

This handbook provides state-of-the-art information on the status of the production of biofuels, in particular, bioethanol and biodiesel. It discusses the production of biofuels from biomass materials by thermochemical and biochemical methods. It also describes the production of biodiesel from various plant sources, including palm, rice bran, karanja seed, jatropha seed, mahua, and rubber seed oils. The book explains how increasing demand for fuel ethanol may influence the international market price of ethanol and looks at how the future of biodiesel needs improvements in conversion technology and an expansion of available feedstock through increased oil yields or oilseed production.
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Botany
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
Biodiversity
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Professional

• Textile Progress
Industrial Textiles
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Professional

Volume 39.1 of the journal Textiles Progress , this book presents a critical review of the recent research work and development on ramie, a long vegetable bast fiber. Divided into two parts, the text first discusses the progress of recent work on ramie; chemical components, such as fiber degumming; its effects on fiber composition; and chemical constituents, including hemicellulose, cellulose, and noncellulosic and mineral matters. It then focuses on various chemical properties of native and modified fibers, including accessibility, infrared, cellulose I-V, DP, grafting, cross linking, and resin finishing and dyeing.
• Textile Progress
Industrial Textiles
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Professional

Despite the worldwide use of chemicals and pesticides to control the devastating effects of plant disease, the international agribusiness market still suffers extensive economic losses each year. Biological Control of Plant Diseases offers natural alternatives to the synthetic fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides that have not only failed to stop pests and pathogens, but have raised serious safety and environmental concerns. The world's leading plant pathologists examine the use of antagonistic microorganisms, inherent resistance, and natural fungicides for plant protection that's safe, economical, and effective.
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Botany
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Undergraduate

Aiming to bridge the gap in understanding between professional electrochemists and hard-core semiconductor physicists and material scientists, this book examines the science and technology of semiconductor electrode-positioning. Summarizing state-of-the-art information concerning a wide variety of semiconductors, it reviews fundamental electrodeposition concepts and terminology.
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Electronics
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Professional