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Biomass: Challenges and Future Perspectives

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The use of biomass as renewable energy could address 10 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the need to resolve current challenges confronting its’ adoption, sustainable widespread acceptance and commercialization has remained. This calls for technological advancement, community-based renewable energy production using combined expertise, academia–industry collaboration, enforcement of policies in developing countries, and international bench-marking. To this end, this chapter presents case studies of biomass application in sustainability and in the food industry. We examine the use of selected micro-organisms for sustainable biomass production. This study proposes possible solutions to common misconceptions about sustainability of biomass energy, legal and institutional barriers, social and environmental constraints. Also, the use of first-generation biofuels based on food crops are discouraged because of food insecurity and increased greenhouse gas emissions, which are largely unsustainable.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, 1154

    S. O. Ebhodaghe

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, 1515

    E. O. Babatunde

  3. Process Department, Lafarge Africa PLC, Ewekoro, Ogun State, Nigeria

    T. O. Ogundijo

  4. Production and Quality Control Department, Adcem Pharmaceuticals, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

    A. D. Omotosho

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  1. School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

    Sabu Thomas

  2. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering:, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, Tuskegee, TX, USA

    Mahesh Hosur

  3. Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Bairro Santa Mônica, Brazil

    Daniel Pasquini

  4. Department of Chemistry, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India

    Cintil Jose Chirayil

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Ebhodaghe, S.O., Babatunde, E.O., Ogundijo, T.O., Omotosho, A.D. (2023). Biomass: Challenges and Future Perspectives. In: Thomas, S., Hosur, M., Pasquini, D., Jose Chirayil, C. (eds) Handbook of Biomass. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6772-6_60-1

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