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Emerging technologies for biofuel production: A critical review on recent progress, challenges and perspectives
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Due to increasing anthropogenic activities, especially industry and transport, the fossil fuel demand and consumption have increased proportionally, causing serious environmental issues. This attracted researchers and scientists to develop new alternative energy sources. Therefore, this review covers the biofuel production potential and challenges related to various feedstocks and advances in process technologies. It has been concluded that the biofuels such as biodiesel, ethanol, bio-oil, syngas, Fischer–Tropsch H2, and methane produced from crop plant residues, micro- and macroalgae and other biomass wastes using thermo-bio-chemical processes are an eco-friendly route for an energy source. Biofuels production and their uses in industries and transportation considerably minimize fossil fuel dependence. Literature analysis showed that biofuels generated from energy crops and microalgae could be the most efficient and attractive process. Recent progress in the field of biofuels using genetic engineering has larger perspectives in commercial-scale production. However, its large-scale production is still challenging; hence, to resolve this problem, it is essential to convert biomass in biofuels by developing novel technology to increase biofuel production to fulfil the current and future energy demand.
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“The fundamental principle governing biofuel production suitability lies in harnessing materials derived from recently living organisms or their metabolic by-products, effectively utilizing contemporary carbon fixation processes operating on much shorter timescales than geological fossil fuel formation [18,215].”
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“Conversely, bioethanol has a high research octane number (RON) of over 100 RON, which allows for higher engine compression ratios and can improve thermal efficiency, though its energy density is lower than that of gasoline [109,215].”
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“For instance, biodiesel typically exhibits a high cetane number (45-65), similar to fossil diesel, ensuring good ignition quality [215,216].”
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- Authors
- Ambaye, T. G., Vaccari, M., Bonilla-Petriciolet, A., Prasad, S., van Hullebusch, E. D., & Rtimi, S.
- Affiliations
- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (NL)
- University of Brescia (IT)
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IN)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Ambaye, Teklit Gebregiorgis
- Rtimi, Sami
- Venue
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-07
- Volume
- 290
- Pages
- 112627
- ISSN
- 0301-4797 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3163275654
- Cited by
- 384
- References
- 151
- Citations by year
- 2026: 56 · 2025: 116 · 2024: 95 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 52 · 2021: 7
- FWCI
- 4.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Environmental Management (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Brescia) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Funders
- Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Fuel Technology › Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Keywords
- biofuel production, biodiesel, ethanol, bio-oil, syngas, methane, microalgae, crop residues, biomass waste, fossil fuel dependence, renewable energy
- MeSH terms
- Energy-Generating Resources, Fossil Fuels, Biomass, Biofuels, Microalgae
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