Sustainable Production of Fuels, Chemicals, and Fibers from Forest Biomass

Content: PREFACE; FEEDSTOCK, AVAILABILITY, PRODUCTION, AND HARVESTING; 1. FOREST BIOMASS SUSTAINABILITY AND AVAILABILITY; K. E. SKOG AND J. A. STANTURF; 2. WOODY BIOMASS FROM SHORT ROTATION ENERGY CROPS; R. S. ZALESNY, JR., M. W. CUNNINGHAM, R. B. HALL, J. MIRCK, D. L. ROCKWOOD, J. A. STANTURF, AND T. A. VOLK; 3. BIOMASS LOGISTICS - HARVEST AND STORAGE; KEVIN J. SHINNERS, MATTHEW F. DIGMAN, AND TROY M. RUNGE; WOODY BIOMASS DECONSTRUCTION; 4. PHYSICAL PRETREATMENT ? WOODY BIOMASS SIZE REDUCTION ? FOR FOREST BIOREFINERY; J. Y. ZHU; 5. CHEMISTRY AND REACTIONS OF FOREST BIOMASS IN BIOREFINING; S. ELUMALAI AND X. J. PAN; 6. THE INFLUENCE OF LIGNIN ON THE ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS OF PRETREATED BIOMASS SUBSTRATES; SEIJI NAKAGAME, RICHARD P. CHANDRA, AND JACK N. SADDLER; FUELS FROM LIGNOCELLULOSES; 7. APPROACHES TO DEAL WITH TOXIC INHIBITORS DURING FERMENTATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC SUBSTRATES; T. L. RICHARDSON, N. K. HARNER, P. K. BAJWA, J. T. TREVORS, AND H. LEE; 8. HYDROGEN PRODUCTION FROM CARBOHYDRATES: A MINI-REVIEW; Y.-H. PERCIVAL ZHANG; CHEMICALS FROM LIGNOCELLULOSES; 9. CHEMICALS FROM HEMICELLULOSES: A REVIEW; FENG PENG, JUN LI REN, FENG XU, AND RUN-CANG SUN; 10. CHEMICALS FROM LIGNIN BASED ON THERMAL FUSIBILITY AND AMPHIPHILICITY; KEIICHI KODA, SATOSHI KUBO, AND YASUMITSU URAKI; 11. CHEMICALS FROM EXTRACTIVES; RODGER P. BEATSON; BIOMATERIALS FROM LIGNOCELLULOSES; 12. DEVELOPMENT AND PROPERTIES OF NANOCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; WADOOD Y. HAMAD, PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST; 13. BIOFIBERS; Y. XU AND R. M. ROWELL; 14. DEVELOPMENT OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITES; LONG JIANG, MENG-HSIN TSAI, SCOTT ANDERSON, MICHAEL P. WOLCOTT, AND JINWEN ZHANG; FOREST BIOREFINERY BASED ON PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES; 15. MODIFY EXISTING PULP AND PAPER MILLS FOR BIOREFINERY OPERATIONS; XIAO ZHANG, MICHAEL G. PAICE, AND JAMES DENG; 16. INTEGRATED FOREST BIOREFINERY ? SULFITE PROCESS; PEDRAM FATEHI AND YONGHAO NI; 17. INTEGRATED FOREST BIOREFINERIES ? NEAR-NEUTRAL PROCESS; ADRIAAN VAN HEININGEN, JOSEPH GENCO, SUNGHOON YOON, MEHMET S. TUNC, HAIXUAN ZOU, JIE LUO, HAIBO MAO, AND HEMANT PENDSE; 18. INTEGRATED FOREST BIOREFINERY - PREHYDROLYSIS/DISSOLVING PULPING PROCESS; PEDRAM FATEHI AND YONGHAO NI; EDITORS' BIOGRAPHIES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX