Food waste is becoming a major global concern especially in developing and underdeveloped countries. Vegetable and food waste biomass is continuously generated in huge amounts. Its major impact on the environment is the generation of greenhouse gases. Food ...
Increase in consumption as well as depletion of fossil fuels and environmental concerns about the consequences of burning fossil fuels leads to search for alternative renewable fuels. Lignocellulosic biomasses are plenteous in nature and are rich in cellul ...
International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability2017
Even though the search for alternative fuels from lignocellulosic biomass started a few decades ago, still it is relatively immature mainly because of few challenges which are yet to be solved for making the process commercially viable. The main challenge ...
A novel microwave assisted surfactant pretreatment strategy was evaluated for the production of bioethanol and biopolymer from chili post-harvest residue. Among the various surfactants screened microwave assisted Tween - 20 pretreatment was found to be mor ...
