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The book provides an overview on various microorganisms and their industrialization in energy conversion, such as ethanol fermentation, butanol fermentation, biogas fermentation and fossil energy conversion. It also covers microbial oil production, hydrogen production and electricity generation. The content is up to date and suits well for both researchers and industrial audiences.

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Table of Content:

Chapter 1 Introduction
Section 1 Energy and microbiology
Section 2 Application status and development prospect of energy microbiology
Chapter 2 Microbiological fundamental
Section 1 Prokaryotic microorganisms
Section 2 Eukaryotic microorganisms
Section 3 Virus
Section 4 Microbial growth and metabolism
Section 5 Microbial genetic variation and breeding
Chapter 3 Microbial biomass pretreatment and hydrolysis
Section 1 Microbial starch hydrolysis and its related amylase
Section 2 Microbial lignin hydrolysis and its related ligninase
Section 3 Microbial cellulose hydrolysis and its related cellulose
Section 4 Microbial hemicellulose hydrolysis and its related hemicellulases
Chapter 4 Microbial ethanol fermentation
Section 1 Microbial hexose fermentation
Section 2 Microbial pentose fermentation
Section 3 Microbial syngas fermentation
Section 4 Ethanol fermentation technology and its application
Chapter 5 Microbial butanol fermentation
Section 1 Overview about butanol fermentation
Section 2 Butanol fermentation microorganism
Section 3 Acetone, butanol fermentation
Section 4 Acetone, butanol fermentation technology and its application
Chapter 6 Microbial oil-lipid transformation and oil production
Section 1 Microbial lipase production
Section 2 Oil-producing microalgae
Section 3 Oil-producing fungi
Chapter 7 Microbial biogas fermentation
Section 1 Principles of anaerobic biogas fermentation
Section 2 Microbial acidogenic fermentation
Section 3 Microbial methane production
Chapter 8 Microbial hydrogen production
Section 1 Hydrogenase and nitrogenase
Section 2 Photosynthetic hydrogen production microbiology
Section 3 Microbial dark fermentation for hydrogen production
Section 4 Microbial conversion of carbon monoxide to hydrogen
Section 5 Prospect of biological hydrogen production
Chapter 9 Microbial electricity generation
Section 1 Fundamental of microbial fuel cell
Section 2 Microbial electricity generation
Section 3 Isolation and breeding of electricity production microorganism
Section 4 Community analysis of anode flora in MFC
Section 5 Application of electricity production microorganism
Chapter 10 Microbial fossil energy conversion
Section 1 Microbial oil exploration
Section 2 Microbial coal conversion

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Zhenhong Yuan, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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