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Biogas from lignocellulosic feedstock: current status and challenges

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The organic wastes and residues generated from agricultural, industrial, and domestic activities have the potential to be converted to bioenergy. One such energy is biogas, which has already been included in rural areas as an alternative cooking energy source and agricultural activities. It is produced via anaerobic digestion of a wide range of organic nutrient sources and is an essential renewable energy source. The factors influencing biogas yield, i.e., the various substrate, their characteristics, pretreatment methods involved, different microbial types, sources, and inoculum properties, are analyzed. Furthermore, the optimization of these parameters, along with fermentation media optimization, such as optimum pH, temperature, and anaerobic digestion strategies, is discussed. Novel approaches of bioaugmentation, co-digestion, phase separation, co-supplementation, nanotechnology, and biorefinery approach have also been explored for biogas production. Finally, the current challenges and prospects of the process are discussed in the review.

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The authors thank the Department of Microbiology, Sikkim University, for providing the computational infrastructure and central library facilities for procuring references and plagiarism analysis (Ouriginal: Plagiarism Detection Software).

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Writing and original draft preparation were done by Dixita Chettri and Ashwani Kumar Verma. Shilpi Gosh contributed to the reviewing of the final draft, and Anil Kumar Verma contributed to the conceptualization of the study and supervised the study. Dixita Chettri and Anil Kumar Verma reviewed and edited the final manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Chettri, D., Verma, A.K., Ghosh, S. et al. Biogas from lignocellulosic feedstock: current status and challenges. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-29805-x

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