Current Challenges in Commercially Producing Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass
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- Venkatesh Balan
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2014-05-05
- 権利情報
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- DOI
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- 10.1155/2014/463074
- 公開者
- Wiley
説明
<jats:p>Biofuels that are produced from biobased materials are a good alternative to petroleum based fuels. They offer several benefits to society and the environment. Producing second generation biofuels is even more challenging than producing first generation biofuels due the complexity of the biomass and issues related to producing, harvesting, and transporting less dense biomass to centralized biorefineries. In addition to this logistic challenge, other challenges with respect to processing steps in converting biomass to liquid transportation fuel like pretreatment, hydrolysis, microbial fermentation, and fuel separation still exist and are discussed in this review. The possible coproducts that could be produced in the biorefinery and their importance to reduce the processing cost of biofuel are discussed. About $1 billion was spent in the year 2012 by the government agencies in US to meet the mandate to replace 30% existing liquid transportation fuels by 2022 which is 36 billion gallons/year. Other countries in the world have set their own targets to replace petroleum fuel by biofuels. Because of the challenges listed in this review and lack of government policies to create the demand for biofuels, it may take more time for the lignocellulosic biofuels to hit the market place than previously projected.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- ISRN Biotechnology
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ISRN Biotechnology 2014 1-31, 2014-05-05
Wiley