Conversion of biomass to biofuels and life cycle assessment: a review

AI Osman, N Mehta, AM Elgarahy, A Al-Hinai… - Environmental chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
The global energy demand is projected to rise by almost 28% by 2040 compared to current
levels. Biomass is a promising energy source for producing either solid or liquid fuels …

[HTML][HTML] New trends on crude glycerol purification: A review

T Attarbachi, MD Kingsley, V Spallina - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing effort of the global community to reduce dependency on fossil fuels led to an
increase in the production of biodiesel and therefore the oversupply of crude glycerol …

Recent development of advanced processing technologies for biodiesel production: A critical review

MA Bashir, S Wu, J Zhu, A Krosuri, MU Khan… - Fuel Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
To move away from fossil fuels, biodiesel provides a sustainable alternative to addressing
the socioeconomic and sustainable fuel problems. For biodiesel to be competitive …

A review on feedstocks, production processes, and yield for different generations of biodiesel

D Singh, D Sharma, SL Soni, S Sharma, PK Sharma… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Continuous increase in world's population, rapid industrialization, urbanization, and
economic growth force for continuously increase in fossil fuel consumption to meet growing …

Biofuels for a sustainable future: Examining the role of nano-additives, economics, policy, internet of things, artificial intelligence and machine learning technology in …

SD Shelare, PN Belkhode, KC Nikam, LD Jathar… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As the global population and economy grow, so does the energy demand. Over-reliance on
non-renewable resources leads to depletion and price spikes, making renewable …

Current perspective on pretreatment technologies using lignocellulosic biomass: An emerging biorefinery concept

B Kumar, N Bhardwaj, K Agrawal, V Chaturvedi… - Fuel processing …, 2020 - Elsevier
A critical factor which controls the socio-economic development of any nation is “energy”.
With depleting fossil fuels, there is a shift in focus to lignocellulosic biorefinery. The review …

Biomass pre-treatment techniques for the production of biofuels using thermal conversion methods–a review

A Ramos, E Monteiro, A Rouboa - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
This review aims to compile and discuss the pre-processing procedures utilized previously
to biomass thermal conversion techniques, in order to promote the sustainable production of …

Biomass-based biorefineries: an important architype towards a circular economy

B Kumar, P Verma - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Fossil based resources are a major contributor to energy and chemicals to modern-day
development. The negative environmental impacts of fossil-based resources accompanied …

Bioethanol production by enzymatic hydrolysis from different lignocellulosic sources

K Vasić, Ž Knez, M Leitgeb - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
As the need for non-renewable sources such as fossil fuels has increased during the last
few decades, the search for sustainable and renewable alternative sources has gained …

Evaluation on feedstock, technologies, catalyst and reactor for sustainable biodiesel production: A review

MNB Mohiddin, YH Tan, YX Seow, J Kansedo… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ever-detrimental condition of the environment due to the fossil fuel utilization has
catalyzed the development of biodiesel. Biodiesel is produced mainly via transesterification …