TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of bioethanol from food waste
T2 - Status and perspectives
AU - Singh, Anusuiya
AU - Singhania, Reeta Rani
AU - Soam, Shveta
AU - Chen, Chiu Wen
AU - Haldar, Dibyajyoti
AU - Varjani, Sunita
AU - Chang, Jo-Shu
AU - Dong, Cheng-Di
AU - Patel, Anil Kumar
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - There is an immediate global requirement for an ingenious strategy for food waste conversion to biofuels in order to replace fossil fuels with renewable resources. Food waste conversion to bioethanol could lead to a sustainable process having the dual advantage of resolving the issue of food waste disposal as well as meeting the energy requirements of the increasing population. Food waste is increasing at the rate of 1.3 billion tonnes per year, considered to be one-third of global food production. According to LCA studies discarding these wastes is detritus to the environment, therefore; it is beneficial to convert the food waste into bioethanol. The CO2 emission in this process offers zero impact on the environment as it is biogenic. Among several pretreatment strategies, hydrothermal pretreatment could be a better approach for pretreating food waste because it solubilizes organic solids, resulting in an increased recovery of fermentable sugars to produce bioenergy.
AB - There is an immediate global requirement for an ingenious strategy for food waste conversion to biofuels in order to replace fossil fuels with renewable resources. Food waste conversion to bioethanol could lead to a sustainable process having the dual advantage of resolving the issue of food waste disposal as well as meeting the energy requirements of the increasing population. Food waste is increasing at the rate of 1.3 billion tonnes per year, considered to be one-third of global food production. According to LCA studies discarding these wastes is detritus to the environment, therefore; it is beneficial to convert the food waste into bioethanol. The CO2 emission in this process offers zero impact on the environment as it is biogenic. Among several pretreatment strategies, hydrothermal pretreatment could be a better approach for pretreating food waste because it solubilizes organic solids, resulting in an increased recovery of fermentable sugars to produce bioenergy.
KW - Bioethanol
KW - Biomass saccharification
KW - Consolidated bioprocessing
KW - Hydrothermal pretreatment
KW - LCA
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127651
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127651
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
C2 - 35870673
SN - 0960-8524
VL - 360
JO - Bioresource Technology
JF - Bioresource Technology
M1 - 127651
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