Applications of Biotechnology for the Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources\nOm V. Singh and Steven P. Harvey\nChapter 1\nHeat and mass transport in processing of lignocellulosic biomass for fuels and chemicals\nSridhar Viamajala, Bryon S. Donohoe, Stephen R. Decker, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael J. Selig, Michael E. Himmel, and Melvin P. Tucker Chapter 2\nBiofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass\nXiaorong Wu, James McLaren, Ron Madl and Donghai Wang Chapter 3\nEnvironmentally Sustainable Biofuels - The Case for Biodiesel, Biobutanol and Cellulosic Ethanol\nPalligarnai T. Vasudevan, Michael D. Gagnon and Michael S. Briggs Chapter 4\nBiotechnological Applications of Hemicellulosic Derived Sugars: State-of-the-art\nAnuj K. Chandel, Om V. Singh and L.Venkateswar Rao Chapter 5\nTactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER)\nJames J. Valdes and Jerry B. Warner Chapter 6\nProduction of Methane Biogas as Fuel through Anaerobic Digestion\nZhongtang Yu and Floyd L. Schanbacher Chapter 7\nWaste to renewable energy: a sustainable and green approach towards production of biohydrogen by acidogenic fermentation\nS. Venkata Mohan Chapter 8\nBacterial communities in various conditions of the composting reactor revealed by 16S rDNA clone analysis and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis\nKeiko Watanabe, Norio Nagao, Tatsuki Toda and Norio Kurosawa Chapter 9\nPerspectives on Bioenergy and Biofuels\nElinor L. Scott, A. Maarten J. Kootstra and Johan P.M. Sanders Chapter 10\nPerspectives on Chemicals from Renewable Resources\nElinor L. Scott, Johan P.M. Sanders and Alexander Steinbüchel Chapter 11\nMicrobial Lactic Acid Production from Renewable Resources\nYebo Li and Fengjie Cui Chapter 12\nMicrobial production of potent phenolic-antioxidants through solid state fermentation\nSilviaMartins, Diego Mercado, Marco Mata-Gómez, Luis Rodriguez, Antonio Aguilera-Carbo, Raul Rodriguez and Cristóbal N. Aguilar Chapter 13\nPhotoautotrophic production of astaxanthin by the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis\nEsperanza Del Río, F. Gabriel Acién and Miguel G. Guerrero Chapter 14\nEnzymatic Synthesis of Heparin\nRenpeng Liu and Jian Liu Chapter 15\nExtremophiles: Sustainable resource of natural compounds-Extremolytes\nRaj Kumar, Dev Dutt Patel, Deen Dayal Bansal, Saurabh Mishra, Anis Mohammed, Rajesh Arora, Ashok Sharma, R.K. Sharma and Rajendra Prasad Tripathi