Production and utilization of sustainable energy toward maintaining a clean environment is a major challenge.
Neha Srivastava Neha Srivastava is currently working as Post-doctorate fellow in Department of Chemical Engineering and Techn.
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Evaluating the Biofuel options and discussing the opportunities and risks in relation to resources, technologies, practices, markets and policy, it provides insights into the development of economically viable bioenergy industries.
This book offers an overview of existing biofuels and the technologies to solve the problems associated with their practical implementation.
However, low yields and lack of process technology are some of the aspects that need to be addressed.
Biofuels have the potential to become a global primary energy source, offering significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions as well as opportunities to increase economic and social development in rural communities and reduce the problems associated with waste disposal.
As such, they can play a vital role in sustainably meeting future energy demands.
Biofuels such as biohydrogen, biomethane, biogas, ethanol and butanol offer a number of advantages and can be economically produced from cellulosic biomass.
Also known as transportation fuels, their energy is derived from biological resources or through the biological processes.
Of the various options, biofuels are especially attractive due to their low Production costs and the fact that they are pollution free.
In recent years, researchers have been investigating alternative, renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels.
Moreover, the long-term economic and environmental issues associated with the high utilization of fossil fuel, such as global warming, are also important, particularly in the context of the predicted increase in the global population to around 5 billion by 2050.
At the same time, the continued depletion of fossil fuels and the global dependency on non-renewable fuels is a chief concern.
Production and utilization of sustainable energy toward maintaining a clean environment is a major challenge
