Contributors

Deepthy Alex Centre for Biofuels, Biotechnology

Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary
Science and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum
695 019, India

Francesco Cherubini Department of Energy and

Process Engineering, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491
Trondheim, Norway

P. Alvira CIEMAT, Renewable Energy Division,

Biofuels Unit Av. Complutese 22, 28040 Madrid

Arnaud Dauriat ENERS Energy Concept, P.O.

Box 56, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Irini Angelidaki Department of Environmental

Engineering, Technical University of Denmark,
Lyngby, Denmark

Joab Sampaio de Sousa Universidade Federal

do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Qumica, Av.
Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149 - CT, Bloco A,
lab. 549-1, CEP 21941-909 Rio de Janeiro, RJ,
Brazil

Amar Anumakonda UOP LLC, 25 E. Algonquin

Road, Des Plaines, IL 60616, USA
M. Ballestero CIEMAT, Renewable Energy
Division, Biofuels Unit Av. Complutese 22,
28040 Madrid

Vincenza Faraco Department of Organic

Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario
Monte S. Angelo, via Cintia 4 80126, Naples,
Italy

Thallada Bhaskar Bio-Fuels Division (BFD),

Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
Dehradun 248005, India

Edgard Gnansounou Bioenergy and Energy

Planning Research Group (BPE), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Balagurumurthy Bhavya Bio-Fuels Division

(BFD), Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP),
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR), Dehradun 248005, India

Lalitha Devi Gottumukkala Centre for Biofuels, Biotechnology Division, National Institute
for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India

Parameswaran Binod Centre for Biofuels, Biotechnology Division, National Institute for
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology,
CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India

Hari Bhagwan Goyal Bio-Fuels division (BFD),

Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
Dehradun 248005, India

Carlos A. Cardona Departamento de Ingeniera

Qumica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Sede Manizales, Cra. 27 No. 64-60, Manizales,
Colombia

Denise Maria Guimaraes Freire Universidade

Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Qumica,
Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149 - CT,
Bloco A, lab. 549-1, CEP 21941-909 Rio de Janeiro,
RJ, Brazil

Elisa dAvila Cavalcanti-Oliveira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de

Qumica, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149 - CT,
Bloco A, lab. 549-1, CEP 21941-909 Rio de Janeiro,
RJ, Brazil

Lien-Huong Huynh Department of Chemical

Engineering, National Taiwan University of
Science and Technology, 43 sec. 4, Keelung
Road, Taipei 10607, Taiwan

Yi-Feng Chen School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua

University, Beijing 100084, Peoples Republic
of China

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CONTRIBUTORS

K.U. Janu Centre for Biofuels, Biotechnology

Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR,
Trivandrum 695 019, India
Yi-Hsu Ju Department of Chemical Engineering,
National Taiwan University of Science and
Technology, 43 sec. 4, Keelung Road, Taipei
10607, Taiwan
Dimitar Karakashev Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of
Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Keikhosro
Karimi Chemical
Engineering
Department, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
Susan Karp Department of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology, Federal University
of Parana, P.O. Box 19011, Curitiba, Brazil
Novy S. Kasim Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of
Science and Technology, 43 sec. 4, Keelung
Road, Taipei 10607, Taiwan
Samir Kumar Khanal Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering (MBBE),
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Agricultural
Science Building 218, 1955 East-West Road,
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Ajay Kumar Bio-Fuels Division (BFD), Indian
Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dehradun
248005, India
Amit Kumar Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada T6G 2G8
Man Kee Lam School of Chemical Engineering,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Seri Ampangan, 14300 Nibong Tebal,
Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Wen-Wei Li Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China,

Hefei, 230026 China
S. Venkata Mohan Bioengineering and Environmental Centre (BEEC), Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad500007, India
G. Mohanakrishna Bioengineering and Environmental Centre (BEEC), Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad500007, India
Pradeep Chaminda Munasinghe Department
of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering
(MBBE), University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Agricultural Science Building 218, 1955 EastWest Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Ganti S. Murthy Biological and Ecological
Engineering, Oregon State University, USA
Desavath Viswanath Naik Bio-Fuels Division
(BFD), Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP),
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR), Dehradun 248005, India
M.J. Negro CIEMAT, Renewable Energy
Division, Biofuels Unit Av. Complutese 22,
28040 Madrid, Spain
Ashok Pandey Centre for Biofuels, Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR,
Trivandrum 695 019, India
J. Pruvost GEPEA, Universite de Nantes, CNRS,
UMR6144, boulevard de lUniversite, CRTT
BP 406, 44602 Saint-Nazaire Cedex, France
Julian A. Quintero Departamento de Ingeniera Qumica, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Sede Manizales, Cra. 27 No. 64-60,
Manizales, Colombia

Duu-Jong Lee Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei,

Taiwan

Kuniparambil Rajasree Centre for Biofuels,

Biotechnology Division, National Institute for
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR,
Industrial Estate PO, Trivandrum 695 019, India

Keat Teong Lee School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering
Campus, Seri Ampangan, 14300 Nibong Tebal,
Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Reeta Rani Singhania Biotechnology Division,

National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science
and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019,
India

CONTRIBUTORS

Anjan Ray UOP India Pvt Ltd, 6th floor,

Building 9B, Cyber City, DLF Phase III,
Gurgaon-122002, India
Carlos Ricardo Soccol Department of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology, Federal
University of Parana, P.O. Box 19011, Curitiba,
Brazil
Luis E. Rincon Departamento de Ingeniera
Qumica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Sede Manizales, Cra. 27 No. 64-60, Manizales,
Colombia

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Anders H. Strmman Department of Energy

and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO7491 Trondheim, Norway
Rajeev K. Sukumaran Centre for Biofuels, Biotechnology Division, National Institute for
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology,
CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India
Mohammad J. Taherzadeh School of Engineering, University of Boras, Sweden

Susanjib Sarkar Department of Mechanical

Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada T6G 2G8

Kok Tat Tan School of Chemical Engineering,

Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Seri Ampangan, 14300 Nibong Tebal,
Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Manju Sharma Department of Microbiology,

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143 005,
India

Vanete Thomaz-Soccol Industrial Biotechnology Program, Positivo University, Curitiba,

Brazil

Kuan-Yeow Show Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and

Green Technology, Universiti Tunku Abdul
Rahman, Jalan University, Bandar Barat,
31900 Kampar, Perak, Malaysia
Ravindran Sindhu Centre for Biofuels, Biotechnology Division, National Institute for
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology,
CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India
Bhupinder Singh Chadha Department of
Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University,
Amritsar-143 005, India
Rawel Singh Bio-Fuels Division (BFD), Indian
Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dehradun
248005, India
S. Srikanth Bioengineering and Environmental Centre (BEEC), Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad-500007,
India

E. Tomas-Pejo CIEMAT, Renewable Energy

Division, Biofuels Unit Av. Complutese 22,
28040 Madrid, Spain
Luciana P.S. Vandenberghe Department of
Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology,
Federal University of Parana, P.O. Box 19011,
Curitiba, Brazil
Adenise Woiciechowski Department of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology, Federal University of Parana, P.O. Box 19011,
Curitiba, Brazil
Qingyu Wu School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua
University, Beijing 100084, Peoples Republic
of China
Han-Qing Yu Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei, 230026 China
Zhen-Peng Zhang Beijing Enterprises Water
Group Limited, BLK 25, No. 3 Minzhuang
Rd, Beijing, China