Microbial Energy Conversion

Zhenhong Yuan, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Table of Content:

Chapter 1 Introduction
Section 1 Energy and microbiology
Section 2 Application status and development prospect of energy microbiology
Chapter 2 Microbiological fundamental
Section 1 Prokaryotic microorganisms
Section 2 Eukaryotic microorganisms
Section 3 Virus
Section 4 Microbial growth and metabolism
Section 5 Microbial genetic variation and breeding
Chapter 3 Microbial biomass pretreatment and hydrolysis
Section 1 Microbial starch hydrolysis and its related amylase
Section 2 Microbial lignin hydrolysis and its related ligninase
Section 3 Microbial cellulose hydrolysis and its related cellulose
Section 4 Microbial hemicellulose hydrolysis and its related hemicellulases
Chapter 4 Microbial ethanol fermentation
Section 1 Microbial hexose fermentation
Section 2 Microbial pentose fermentation
Section 3 Microbial syngas fermentation
Section 4 Ethanol fermentation technology and its application
Chapter 5 Microbial butanol fermentation
Section 1 Overview about butanol fermentation
Section 2 Butanol fermentation microorganism
Section 3 Acetone, butanol fermentation
Section 4 Acetone, butanol fermentation technology and its application
Chapter 6 Microbial oil-lipid transformation and oil production
Section 1 Microbial lipase production
Section 2 Oil-producing microalgae
Section 3 Oil-producing fungi
Chapter 7 Microbial biogas fermentation
Section 1 Principles of anaerobic biogas fermentation
Section 2 Microbial acidogenic fermentation
Section 3 Microbial methane production
Chapter 8 Microbial hydrogen production
Section 1 Hydrogenase and nitrogenase
Section 2 Photosynthetic hydrogen production microbiology
Section 3 Microbial dark fermentation for hydrogen production
Section 4 Microbial conversion of carbon monoxide to hydrogen
Section 5 Prospect of biological hydrogen production
Chapter 9 Microbial electricity generation
Section 1 Fundamental of microbial fuel cell
Section 2 Microbial electricity generation
Section 3 Isolation and breeding of electricity production microorganism
Section 4 Community analysis of anode flora in MFC
Section 5 Application of electricity production microorganism
Chapter 10 Microbial fossil energy conversion
Section 1 Microbial oil exploration
Section 2 Microbial coal conversion