JNTUK B.Tech Green Fuel Technologies gives you detail information of Green Fuel Technologies R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.
Learning Objectives
The students will be imparted the knowledge of:
- Various green fuel technologies available worldwide.
- Production of Bio-ethanol from crops, molasses and cellulosic bio mass.
- Production of Bio-diesel from plant seeds, algae, and by utilizing supercritical process.
- Methane gas production utilizing bio digesters.
UNIT-I: Introduction: Plant based biofuels- World biofuels scenario- Thermochemical conversion of biomass to liquids and gaseous fuels.
UNIT-II: Bioethanol from crops – Cane sugar: Production of ethanol from molasses – Bioethanol from starchy biomass: Production of starch Saccharifying enzymes – Hydrolysis and fermentation.
UNIT-III: Bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass: Pretreatment of the substrates-Production of Cellulases and Hemicellulases- Hydrolysis and fermentation.
- UNIT-IV: Biodiesel production technologies and substrates– Lipase-catalyzed preparation of biodiesel- Biodiesel production with supercritical fluid technologies; Biodiesel from algae: Algaculture- Challenges-Algaculture for biodiesel production.
UNIT-V: Biodiesel from different plant seeds: Palm oil diesel production and its experimental test on a diesel engine – Biodiesel production using karanja (pongamia pinnata) and jatropha (jatropha curcas) seed oil – Biodiesel production form rubber seed oil and other vegetable oils.
UNIT-VI: Microbial production of methane: Different types of bio-digesters and biogas technology in India.
Outcomes
The students will have basic knowledge on:
- What are green fuel technologies
- How bio-ethanol, bio diesel & Methane are produced from crops, cellulosic biomass, plant seeds & bio digester.
TEXT BOOKS
- Hand book of Plant Based Biofuels, Ashok Pandey, CRC Press, 2009.
- Biofuels Engineering Process Technology, Caye M. Drapcho, Nghiem Phu Nhuan, Terry H. Walker, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
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