Hydrothermal Processing in Biorefineries, 1st ed. 2017 Production of Bioethanol and High Added-Value Compounds of Second and Third Generation Biomass

Introduction Book.- Effect of Hydrothermal Pretreatment on Lignin and Antioxidant Activity.- Effect of Hydrothermal Processing on Hemicellulose Structure.- Response of Biomass Species to Hydrothermal Pretreatment.- Kinetic Modeling, Operational Conditions and Biorefinery Products from Hemicellulose: Depolymerization and Solubilization during Hydrothermal Processing.- Combined Severity Factor for Predicting Sugar Recovery in Acid Catalyzed Pretreatment Followed by Enzymatic Hydrolysis.- Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Bioethanol Production.- Hydrothermal Pretreatment: Process Modeling and Economic Assessment within the Framework of Biorefinery Processes.- Bioethanol Production from Pretreated Solids Using Hydrothermal Processing.- Production and Emerging Applications of Bioactive Oligosaccharides from Biomass Hemicelluloses by Hydrothermal Processing.- Production of Hemicellulases, Xylitol and Furan from Hemicellulose Hydrolysates Using Hydrothermal Pretreatment.- Steam Explosion as a Hydrothermal Pretreatment in the Biorefinery Concept.- Adaptation of Severity Factor Model According to the Operating Parameters Variations which occur during Steam Explosion Process.- Hydrothermal Pre-treatment Using Supercritical CO2 in the Biorefinery Context.- Scale-up Hydrothermal Pre-treatment of Sugarcane Bagasse and Straw for Second-Generation Ethanol Production.- Pilot Plant Design and Operation Using a Hydrothermal Pretreatment: Bioenercel Experience.- Techno-economic Aspects in the Evaluation of Biorefineries for Production of Second Generation Bioethanol.- Minimizing Precipitated Lignin Formation and Maximizing Monosugar Concentration by Formic Acid Reinforced Hydrolysis of Hardwood Chips.- Microwave-assisted Hydrothermal Processing of Seaweed Biomass.- Hydrothermal Processes for Extraction of Macroalgae high Value added Compounds.- Hydrothermal Processing of Microalgae.

Dr. Héctor A. Ruiz obtained his Ph.D in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Centre of Biological Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2011. He then spent 1 year as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Minho (Portugal) and University of Vigo (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. José A. Teixeira and Prof. Juan C. Parajó (2012). He is currently Full Professor in the School of Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Coahuila and founder of the Biorefinery Group in the Food Research Department, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico and leader of the pretreatment step in the Cluster of Bioalcohols in the Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bioenergy (Cemie-Bio), Mexico. His research has targeted hydrothermal processing (autohydrolysis) and biorefinery strategies for the production high added-value compounds and bioethanol from lignocellulosic, micro - and macroalgal biomass. Dr. Ruiz has conducted several research stays and technical visits: at the Federal University of Sergipe (Brazil), Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE, Brazil), in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (Canada), CIEMAT- Renewable Energy Division, Biofuels Unit (Spain), University of Jaén (Spain), Sadar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (India), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan).

He has authored or co-authored several research publications with an H factor of 14 (Google Scholar Citations). Currently, Dr. Ruiz is Editor-in-Chief of Bioethanol Journal (De Gruyter Open, since 2014), Associate Editor of BioEnergy Research Journal (Springer, since 2015) and participates in the Editorial Advisory Board of the Industrial Crops and Products (Elsevier, since 2013) and Biofuel Research Journal. Dr. Ruiz was awarded with the Prize "Dr. Carlos Casas Campillo" of the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering in 2016. This award aims to give recognition and encourage young researcher