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Production of liquid biofuels from renewable resources
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An up-to-date review of the literature available on the subject of liquid bio-fuels can be found in this article, which includes information based on the research conducted globally by scientists according to their local socio-cultural and economic situations.About:
This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2011-02-01. It has received 1948 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Second-generation biofuels & Biofuel.read more
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Trends in bioconversion of lignocellulose: Biofuels, platform chemicals & biorefinery concept
Vishnu Menon,Mala Rao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive state of the art describing the advancement in recent pretreaments, metabolic engineering approaches with special emphasis on the latest developments in consolidated biomass processing, current global scenario of bioethanol pilot plants and biorefinery concept for the production of biofuels and bioproducts.
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Energy-efficient polymeric gas separation membranes for a sustainable future: A review
David F. Sanders,Zachary P. Smith,Ruilan Guo,Lloyd M. Robeson,James E. McGrath,Donald R Paul,Benny D. Freeman +6 more
TL;DR: A review of the fundamental scientific principles underpinning the operation of polymers for gas separations, including the solution-diffusion model and various structure/property relations, is presented in this paper.
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Micro and macroalgal biomass: A renewable source for bioethanol
TL;DR: Algae capable of accumulating high starch/cellulose can serve as an excellent alternative to food crops for bioethanol production, a green fuel for sustainable future.
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Microalgae biofuels: A critical review of issues, problems and the way forward
Man Kee Lam,Keat Teong Lee +1 more
TL;DR: The practical problems that are facing the microalgae biofuel industry will be depicted, covering upstream to downstream activities by accessing the latest research reports and critical data analysis and several interlink solutions to the problems will be suggested with the purpose to revolutionize the entire microAlgae Biofuel industry towards long-term sustainability.
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Alcohol combustion chemistry
TL;DR: A detailed overview of recent results on alcohol combustion can be found in this paper, with a particular emphasis on butanols and other linear and branched members of the alcohol family, from methanol to hexanols.
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Microalgae for biodiesel production and other applications: A review
TL;DR: The various aspects associated with the design of microalgae production units are described, giving an overview of the current state of development of algae cultivation systems (photo-bioreactors and open ponds).
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Biodiesel production : a review
Fangrui Ma,Milford A. Hanna +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the transesterification reaction is aected by molar ratio of glycerides to alcohol, catalysts, reaction temperature, reaction time and free fatty acids and water content of oils or fats.
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Biofuels from microalgae—A review of technologies for production, processing, and extractions of biofuels and co-products
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the technologies underpinning microalgae-to-bio-fuels systems, focusing on the biomass production, harvesting, conversion technologies, and the extraction of useful co-products.
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Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt
TL;DR: Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce food crop–based biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the United States creates a “biofuel carbon debt” by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas reductions that these biofuel reductions would provide by displacing fossil fuels.
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Microalgal triacylglycerols as feedstocks for biofuel production: perspectives and advances
Qiang Hu,Milton Sommerfeld,Eric E. Jarvis,Maria L. Ghirardi,Matthew C. Posewitz,Michael Seibert,Aldis Darzins +6 more
TL;DR: A brief summary of the current knowledge on oleaginous algae and their fatty acid and TAG biosynthesis, algal model systems and genomic approaches to a better understanding of TAG production, and a historical perspective and path forward for microalgae-based biofuel research and commercialization are provided.