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Microbial Production of Biofuels Using Various Biomass

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Biomass-based Clean Technologies for Sustainable Development

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Amidst critical alarms on global climate revolution and with depleting fossil fuels stocks, the researchers have stepped up to the challenge of develo** microbial mechanism for the production of advanced biofuels. Biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel have until now shifting from fossil fuel, but its consumption has kept limitation for the quantities utilized in conventional engines and its market price. Microbial substrates are used for extracting oil and then transesterified into biofuel. Although biofuels from microbial community have their hindrances, they are widely valued due to their qualities which include short life span and the ability to grow on multiple environments and capability to remediate different polluted environmental circumstances. At the moment, this chapter emphases on outlining the making of biofuel from different microbial species. Also, the chapter provides critical insights about the engineered microbes, their progresses, and applications. The difficulties of metabolic pathways, encounters with substrate, and production harmfulness regarding host microbes will be pointed out in this chapter.

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    Jenius Jayesh Keralia, Aryankumar Kiritbhai Kumbhani, Brincy Jayprakashbhai Thummar, Sanjay Kumar & Ila Jogesh Ramala Sarkar

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Keralia, J.J., Kumbhani, A.K., Thummar, B.J., Kumar, S., Sarkar, I.J.R. (2024). Microbial Production of Biofuels Using Various Biomass. In: Pal, D.B., Kapoor, A. (eds) Biomass-based Clean Technologies for Sustainable Development. Clean Energy Production Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0847-5_5

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