Biofuel Crops Production, Physiology and Genetics

Liquid biofuels have been around for more than a century. Inventors of automotive engines had envisioned farm-grown energy sources to play an important role in supplying fuel to run these vehicles. Biofuels have met their extinction several times due to the price advantage enjoyed by fossil fu...

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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-371862023-11-11T05:06:00Z Biofuel Crops Production, Physiology and Genetics Singh, Bharat P Physiology Biofuel Liquid biofuels have been around for more than a century. Inventors of automotive engines had envisioned farm-grown energy sources to play an important role in supplying fuel to run these vehicles. Biofuels have met their extinction several times due to the price advantage enjoyed by fossil fuels, but always managed to resurface after an interval during times of petroleum shortage. Farm survival and rural development has been the main impetus behind promoting biofuels. However, during the last three or four decades environmental benefits and energy security have also emerged as reasons for the use of biofuel thereby providing it a more stable market base. Global biofuel production has grown from 16 billion l in 2000 to more than 100 billion l in 2010. Currently, biofuels account for approximately 3% of total world road transport fuel, but they are projected to meet up to 27% of the world demand by 2050. Under this scenario, biofuels may help reduce CO2 emission by 2.1 gigatonnes (Gt) per year. To be sure, critics of biofuel abound. There has been fierce debate concerning the wisdom of using food crops for biofuel and holding it responsible for grain price rises of recent years. The greenhouse gas remediation value of biofuel has also been questioned with the argument that the inputs of fossil fuels required in tillage, fertilizers, transportation and processing essentially negates the perceived CO2 sequestration advantage. Regardless of the validity of these claims and the data base from which these conclusions were derived, these criticisms had the positive impacts of pushing the biofuel industry to chart a future course based on more sustainable and non-food source lignocellulosic feedstocks that indisputably provide CO2 remediation benefits and to develop processes essential for their efficient conversion to biofuel. In addition, much research and development emphasis has been placed on making the biofuel fully compatible with the existing distribution systems and to make the volumetric energy content of biofuels equivalent to fossil fuels. 2014-04-25T01:36:55Z 2014-04-25T01:36:55Z 2013 Book 978 1 84593 885 7 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/37186 en application/pdf CABI
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topic Physiology
Biofuel
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Biofuel
Singh, Bharat P
Biofuel Crops Production, Physiology and Genetics
description Liquid biofuels have been around for more than a century. Inventors of automotive engines had envisioned farm-grown energy sources to play an important role in supplying fuel to run these vehicles. Biofuels have met their extinction several times due to the price advantage enjoyed by fossil fuels, but always managed to resurface after an interval during times of petroleum shortage. Farm survival and rural development has been the main impetus behind promoting biofuels. However, during the last three or four decades environmental benefits and energy security have also emerged as reasons for the use of biofuel thereby providing it a more stable market base. Global biofuel production has grown from 16 billion l in 2000 to more than 100 billion l in 2010. Currently, biofuels account for approximately 3% of total world road transport fuel, but they are projected to meet up to 27% of the world demand by 2050. Under this scenario, biofuels may help reduce CO2 emission by 2.1 gigatonnes (Gt) per year. To be sure, critics of biofuel abound. There has been fierce debate concerning the wisdom of using food crops for biofuel and holding it responsible for grain price rises of recent years. The greenhouse gas remediation value of biofuel has also been questioned with the argument that the inputs of fossil fuels required in tillage, fertilizers, transportation and processing essentially negates the perceived CO2 sequestration advantage. Regardless of the validity of these claims and the data base from which these conclusions were derived, these criticisms had the positive impacts of pushing the biofuel industry to chart a future course based on more sustainable and non-food source lignocellulosic feedstocks that indisputably provide CO2 remediation benefits and to develop processes essential for their efficient conversion to biofuel. In addition, much research and development emphasis has been placed on making the biofuel fully compatible with the existing distribution systems and to make the volumetric energy content of biofuels equivalent to fossil fuels.
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