Production of bio products from agriculture biomass

Abstract

Bio fuels appeared to be more climate-friendly than burning fossil fuels. There are different types of alcoholic fuels that can be produced easily and may use as alternative source of existing fuels. Butanol may be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine and it is more similar to gasoline. Butanol is a drop-in fuel and thus works in vehicles designed for use with gasoline without modification. Both n-butanol and isobutanol have been studied as possible fuels. Butanol is produced from starch- or sugar-based material such as corn grain, sugar cane or from cellulosic feed stocks. Biofuel can play a great role in Pakistan because country is oil dependent. Second generation cellulosic biofuels offer a solution to reduce carbon emissions of traffic as well as generation of energy for domestic and commercial uses. A study was conducted to develop a approach for the management of agriculture as well as other organic wastes utilization for production of alcoholic fuels. Therefore, cellulosic materials like wheat and rice straws as well as fruit wastes were used in this study. Samples were analyzed for different parameters. Biological and chemical pretreatments were compared for each substrate. Efficiency of microbial enzymes for saccharification of agricultural substrates was evaluated. It is expected that outcome of this study will help to increase production of biofuels and to reduce burden of imported fossil fuels.