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Progress and recent trends in biofuels
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A review of modern biomass-based transportation fuels such as fuels from Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, bioethanol, fatty acid (m)ethylester, biomethanol, and biohydrogen are briefly reviewed in this paper.About:
This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2007-02-01. It has received 1505 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biomass to liquid & Renewable fuels.read more
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Recent trends in global production and utilization of bio-ethanol fuel
Mustafa Balat,Havva Balat +1 more
TL;DR: The most widely used bio-fuel for transportation worldwide is bio-ethanol from sugar cane, which is essentially a clean fuel and has several clear advantages over petroleum-derived gasoline in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality in metropolitan areas as mentioned in this paper.
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Progress in bioethanol processing
TL;DR: A review of the biological and thermochemical methods that could be used to produce bioethanol is made and an analysis of its global production trends is carried out in this paper, where the authors evaluate the utilization of different feedstocks (i.e., sucrose containing, starchy materials, lignocellulosic biomass) is required considering the big share of raw materials in bio-ethanol costs.
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Lignocellulosic biomass for bioethanol production: current perspectives, potential issues and future prospects.
Alya Limayem,Steven C. Ricke +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the major steps involved in cellulosic-based bioethanol processes and potential issues challenging these operations is provided in this paper, where possible solutions and recoveries that could improve bioprocessing are also addressed.
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Bimetallic catalysts for upgrading of biomass to fuels and chemicals
David Martin Alonso,Stephanie G. Wettstein,Stephanie G. Wettstein,James A. Dumesic,James A. Dumesic +4 more
TL;DR: A review of recent results published in the literature for biomass upgrading reactions using bimetallic catalysts offers the possibility of enabling lignocellulosic processing to become a larger part of the biofuels and renewable chemical industry.
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Biofuels sources, biofuel policy, biofuel economy and global biofuel projections
TL;DR: The use of vegetable oils for making biodiesel due to its less polluting and renewable nature as against the conventional petroleum diesel fuel has been renewed interest in the use of biodiesel.
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