A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change
Environmental deterioration, global climate change, and consequent increases in pollution-related health problems among populations have been attributed to growing consumption of fossil fuels in particular by the transportation sector. Hence, replacing these energy carriers, also known as major cont...
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| author | Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi Mona Dehhaghi James E. Kinder Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji |
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| description | Environmental deterioration, global climate change, and consequent increases in pollution-related health problems among populations have been attributed to growing consumption of fossil fuels in particular by the transportation sector. Hence, replacing these energy carriers, also known as major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions, with biofuels have been regarded as a solution to mitigate the above-mentioned challenges. On the other hand, efforts have been put into limiting the utilization of edible feedstocks for biofuels production, <em>i.e.</em>, first generation biofuels, by promoting higher generations of these eco-friendly alternatives. In light of that, the present review is aimed at comprehensively assessing the role and importance of microorganisms such as bacteria and yeasts as catalysts for sustainable production of liquid biofuels including bioethanol, biomethanol, biobutanol, bio-ammonia, biokerosene, and bioglycerol. Various aspects of these biofuels, <em>i.e.</em>, background, chemical synthesis, microbial production (including exploitation of wild and metabolically-engineered species), and product recovery as well as the derivatives produced from these biofuels which are used as fuel additives are thoroughly covered and critically discussed. Furthermore, the industrial features of these green liquid fuels including the industrial practices reported in the literature and the challenges faced as well as possible approaches to enhance these practices are presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-84902225961e47dfae2b3d99caff090c2024-03-26T15:13:22ZengAlpha Creation EnterpriseBiofuel Research Journal2292-87822292-87822019-09-0163995102410.18331/BRJ2019.6.3.292199A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate changeHamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi0Mona Dehhaghi1James E. Kinder2Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji3Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.|Department of Microbial Biotechnology, School of Biology and Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.|Department of Microbial Biotechnology, School of Biology and Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.Department of Animal Sciences, Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), The Ohio State University, Wooster, USA.Department of Animal Sciences, Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), The Ohio State University, Wooster, USA.Environmental deterioration, global climate change, and consequent increases in pollution-related health problems among populations have been attributed to growing consumption of fossil fuels in particular by the transportation sector. Hence, replacing these energy carriers, also known as major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions, with biofuels have been regarded as a solution to mitigate the above-mentioned challenges. On the other hand, efforts have been put into limiting the utilization of edible feedstocks for biofuels production, <em>i.e.</em>, first generation biofuels, by promoting higher generations of these eco-friendly alternatives. In light of that, the present review is aimed at comprehensively assessing the role and importance of microorganisms such as bacteria and yeasts as catalysts for sustainable production of liquid biofuels including bioethanol, biomethanol, biobutanol, bio-ammonia, biokerosene, and bioglycerol. Various aspects of these biofuels, <em>i.e.</em>, background, chemical synthesis, microbial production (including exploitation of wild and metabolically-engineered species), and product recovery as well as the derivatives produced from these biofuels which are used as fuel additives are thoroughly covered and critically discussed. Furthermore, the industrial features of these green liquid fuels including the industrial practices reported in the literature and the challenges faced as well as possible approaches to enhance these practices are presented.http://www.biofueljournal.com/article_92199_a605823d772fb82ff51f715b55339ff8.pdfBiofuelMicrobial metaboliteBioethanolBiobutanolBio-jet fuelSustainable energyFuel additive |
| spellingShingle | Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi Mona Dehhaghi James E. Kinder Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change Biofuel Research Journal Biofuel Microbial metabolite Bioethanol Biobutanol Bio-jet fuel Sustainable energy Fuel additive |
| title | A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change |
| title_full | A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change |
| title_fullStr | A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change |
| title_full_unstemmed | A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change |
| title_short | A review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector: a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change |
| title_sort | review on green liquid fuels for the transportation sector a prospect of microbial solutions to climate change |
| topic | Biofuel Microbial metabolite Bioethanol Biobutanol Bio-jet fuel Sustainable energy Fuel additive |
| url | http://www.biofueljournal.com/article_92199_a605823d772fb82ff51f715b55339ff8.pdf |
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