InhaltsangabeBiopretreatment.- Thermal Pretreatment.- Chemical Pretreatment.- Physicochemical Pretreatment.- Gasification, Liquefaction and Biogas.- Novel Pretreatment Techniques.- Pretreatment of Different Types of Biomass.

Prof. Dr. Zhen FANG is leader and founder of biomass group, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an adjunct full Professor of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. He is the inventor of "fast hydrolysis" process. He is specializing in thermal/biochemical conversion of biomass, nanocatalyst synthesis and its applications, pretreatment of biomass for biorefineries. He obtained his PhDs from China Agricultural University (Biological & Agricultural Engineering, 1991, Beijing) and McGill University (Materials Engineering, 2003, Montreal).