Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
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The official GTU curriculum for Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (subject code ME02072071) as prescribed for CAPD · Semester 2 divides the course into 8 units, covering 56 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME02072071)Unit 1 Introduction
- World energy scenario
- consumption pattern
- fossil fuel depletion and environmental issues
Unit 2 Biomass
- Availability and abundance
- composition and energy potential
- virgin biomass production and selection
- waste biomass (municipal
- agricultural and forestry) availability
- abundance and potential
- biomass as energy resources: dedicated energy crops
- annual crops (maize
- sorghum sugar beet
- perennial herbaceous crops (sugarcane
- short rotation woody crops (poplar
- oil crops and their biorefinery potential
- microalgae as feedstock for biofuels and biochemical
- enhancing biomass properties for biofuels
- challenges in conversion
Unit 3 Biorefinery
- Basic concept
- types of biorefineries
- biorefinery feedstocks and properties
Unit 4 Biomass Pretreatment
- Barriers in lignocellulosic biomass conversion
- pretreatment technologies such as acid
- hybrid methods
- role of pretreatment in the biorefinery concept
Unit 5 Physical, Thermal and Microbial Conversion Processes
- equipments and applications
- thermal conversion products
- commercial success stories
Unit 6 Biodiesel
- Diesel from vegetable oils
- microalgae and syngas
- FT process
- biodiesel purification
- fuel properties
- Bio Oil and Biochar: Factors affecting biooil
- biochar production
- bio oil upgradation
- Bioethanol and Biobutanol: Corn ethanol
- lignocellulosic ethanol
- microorganisms for fermentation
- current industrial ethanol production technology
- cellulases and their role in hydrolysis
- concepts of SSF and CBP, advanced fermentation technologies
- ABE fermentation pathway and kinetics
- product recovery technologies and other organic commodity chemicals from Biomass
Unit 7 Hydrogen, Methane and Methanol
- Biohydrogen generation
- metabolic basics
- dark fermentation by strict anaerobes
- facultative anaerobes
- thermophilic microorganisms
- integration of biohydrogen with fuel cell
- fundamentals of biogas technology
- fermenter designs
- biogas purification
- methanol production and utilization
Unit 8 Integrated Biorefinery
- corn/soybean/sugarcane biorefinery
- Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Computer Aided Process Design Subject Code: ME02072071 Subject Name: Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
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