Prof. FANG Zhen of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Dr. Chunbao (Charles) Xu of Western University, Canada edited a book named Near-critical and Supercritical Water and Their Applications for Biorefineries. The book has been published online by Springer. 

The book focuses on utilizing near-critical water and supercritical water in bio refineries and covers almost all aspects of near-critical water and supercritical water. 

The book provides fundamental chemistry and properties of near-critical water (NCW) and supercritical water (SCW), criteria and challenges/solutions in reactor design for NCW and SCW processes, and up-to-date reviews and practice of a wide range of their applications in biorefineries including: production of hydrochars from biomass, SCW oxidation (SCWO) for waste treatment, SCW gasification (SCWG) of biomass and waste for hydrogen and methane production, hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass, production of chemicals, and SCWO of biofuels for energy. It also presents techno-economic analysis of hydrogen production via SCWG of biomass. The book will be highly essential for both academic researchers and industrial practitioners for developing novel biorefinery technologies and processes employing NCW or SCW for treatment of various organic waste streams and production of bio-energy and bio-based chemicals from bio-renewable resources. 

Prof. Dr. Zhen Fang is leader and founder of biomass group, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. 

Dr.  Chunbao (Charles) Xu is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and NSERC/FP Innovations Industrial Research Chair in Forest Biorefinery at Western University, Canada. 

The book is available at http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-8923-3