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Biofuels: The Environment-Friendly Energy Carriers

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Escalating globalisation, high demand for energy, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and depleting fossil fuel reserves have necessitated the search for alternative and sustainable energy carriers such as biofuels. Worldwide, the laboratories are engaged in extensive research for the development of different biofuels such as bioethanol, biodiesel, biohydrogen, biogas and advanced bioalcohols. This chapter provides an overview of bioprocessing of various types of biofuels.

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