Preface

Recently, many researchers have focused on identifying a cost-effective approach to generate biofuel, chemicals, and value-added products from various biomass. Generating alternative fuels from renewable feedstock helps with waste management, produces low-cost fuel, and reduces negative environmental effects. To achieve this, a broader knowledge of selecting renewable feedstock is essential. From an economic and environmental point of view, cellulose is considered a renewable, versatile, and biodegradable material. It is the most abundantly available biopolymer in different biomass such as plants, bacteria, tunicates, and algae. This book provides basic information about the various applications of cellulose conversion into biofuels and value-added products. It presents the basics of cellulose conversion, an integral part of the biorefinery concept, and discusses the possible routes of biofuel/value-added products derived from cellulose.

> **Rajesh Banu Jeyakumar** Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, India

#### **Kavitha Sankarapandian**

Department of Biotechnology, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

#### **Yukesh Kannah Ravi**

Center for Organic and Nanohybrid Electronics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

Section 1

Environmental Application

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Section 1
