1Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, UAEU, Al-Ain 17555, UAE 2Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India 3Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand 4Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Malaysia, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 5Department of Grain Science and In...

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In 2008, the world produced approximately 87 gigaliters of liquid biofuels, which is roughly equal to the volume of liquid fuel consumed by Germany that year. Essentially, all of this biofuel was produced from crops developed for food production, raising concerns about the net energy and greenhouse gas effects and potential competition between use of land for production of fuels, food, animal f...

This review is a short synopsis of some of the latest breakthroughs in the areas of lignocellulosic conversion to fuels and utilization of oils for biodiesel. Although four lignocellulosic ethanol factories have opened in the USA and hundreds of biodiesel installations are active worldwide, technological improvements are being discovered that will rapidly evolve the biofuels industry into a new...

Ethanol is a biofuel that is used as a replacement for approximately 3% of the fossil-based gasoline consumed in the world today. Most of this biofuel is produced from sugarcane in Brazil and corn in the United States. We present here the rationale for the ethanol program in Brazil, its present 'status' and its perspectives. The environmental benefits of the program, particularly the contributi...

Large-scale robot-assisted genome shuffling yields industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts with increased ethanol tolerance Biotechnology for Biofuels Sample doi:10.1186/s13068-015-0216-0 Tim Snoek ([email protected]) Martina Picca Nicolino ([email protected]) Stefanie Van den Bremt ([email protected]) Stijn Mertens ([email protected]) V...

Background: Pretreatment chemistry is of central importance due to its impacts on cellulosic biomass processing and biofuels conversion. Ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) and dilute acid are two promising pretreatments using alkaline and acidic pH that have distinctive differences in pretreatment chemistries. Results: Comparative evaluation on these two pretreatments reveal that (i) AFEX-pretreate...

Book details Ballerini, D Biofuels: Meeting the Energy and Environmental Challenges of the Transportation Sector Paris: Editions Technip; 2012 355 pages, ISBN 978-2-7108-0983-8 With the book Biofuels, Meeting the Energy and Environmental Challenges of the Transportation Sector, Daniel Ballerini published a comprehensive overview of biofuel production and markets. It is a revised and translated ...