Hans Blaschek is Professor of Food Microbiology and Assistant Dean at teh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thaddeus Ezeji is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Biotechnology and Bioenergy Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jürgen Scheffran is Professor at the Institute for Geography and at the KlimaCampus of Hamburg University in Germany.

• Preface. About the Editors.Contributors.1 Biofuels from Agricultural Wastes and Byproducts: An Introduction (Hans P. Blaschek, Thaddeus C. Ezeji, and Jürgen Scheffran).2 Production of Liquid Biofuels from Biomass: Emerging Technologies (Nasib Qureshi, Stephen Hughes, and Thaddeus C. Ezeji).3 Butanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass (Thaddeus C. Ezeji and Hans P. Blaschek).4 Practical Aspects of Methane Production from Agricultural Wastes (Largus T. Angenent and Norman R. Scott).5 Conversion of Agricultural Residues to Bioethanol: The Roles of Cellulases and Cellulosomes (Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed, Bryan A. White, Shi-You Ding, and Michael E. Himmel).6 Fuel and Chemical Production from Glycerol, a Biodiesel Waste Product (Syed Shams Yazdani, Anu Jose Mattam, and Ramon Gonzalez).7 Farm-Gate to Plant-Gate Delivery of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks from Plant Biomass for Biofuel Production (Klein E. Ileleji, Shahab Sokhansanj, and John S. Cundiff).8 Conversion of Existing Dry-Mill Ethanol Operations to Biorefineries (Timothy C. Lindsey).9 Cellulosic Ethanol from Agricultural Residues (Bin Yang, Yanpin Lu, and Charles E. Wyman).10 Hydrothermal Liquefaction to Convert Biomass into Crude Oil (Yuanhui Zhang).11 Detoxification of Lignocellulosic Hydrolysates (Bin Wang and Hao Feng).Index.

Hans Blaschek is Professor of Food Microbiology and Assistant Dean at teh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thaddeus Ezeji is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Biotechnology and Bioenergy Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jürgen Scheffran is Professor at the Institute for Geography and at the KlimaCampus of Hamburg University in Germany.

• Preface. About the Editors.Contributors.1 Biofuels from Agricultural Wastes and Byproducts: An Introduction (Hans P. Blaschek, Thaddeus C. Ezeji, and Jürgen Scheffran).2 Production of Liquid Biofuels from Biomass: Emerging Technologies (Nasib Qureshi, Stephen Hughes, and Thaddeus C. Ezeji).3 Butanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass (Thaddeus C. Ezeji and Hans P. Blaschek).4 Practical Aspects of Methane Production from Agricultural Wastes (Largus T. Angenent and Norman R. Scott).5 Conversion of Agricultural Residues to Bioethanol: The Roles of Cellulases and Cellulosomes (Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed, Bryan A. White, Shi-You Ding, and Michael E. Himmel).6 Fuel and Chemical Production from Glycerol, a Biodiesel Waste Product (Syed Shams Yazdani, Anu Jose Mattam, and Ramon Gonzalez).7 Farm-Gate to Plant-Gate Delivery of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks from Plant Biomass for Biofuel Production (Klein E. Ileleji, Shahab Sokhansanj, and John S. Cundiff).8 Conversion of Existing Dry-Mill Ethanol Operations to Biorefineries (Timothy C. Lindsey).9 Cellulosic Ethanol from Agricultural Residues (Bin Yang, Yanpin Lu, and Charles E. Wyman).10 Hydrothermal Liquefaction to Convert Biomass into Crude Oil (Yuanhui Zhang).11 Detoxification of Lignocellulosic Hydrolysates (Bin Wang and Hao Feng).Index.