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Recent Developments and Current Status of Commercial Production of Fuel Ethanol
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: Received: 16 November 2021 / Approved: 17 November 2021 / Online: 17 November 2021 (10:21:59 CET)
How to cite: Hoang, T.-D.; Nghiem, N. Recent Developments and Current Status of Commercial Production of Fuel Ethanol. Preprints 2021, 2021110297. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0297.v1 Hoang, T.-D.; Nghiem, N. Recent Developments and Current Status of Commercial Production of Fuel Ethanol. Preprints 2021, 2021110297. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0297.v1
Abstract
Ethanol produced from various biobased sources (bioethanol) has been gaining high attention lately due to its potential to cut down net emissions of carbon dioxide while reducing burgeoning world dependence on fossil fuels. Global ethanol production has increased more than six-fold from 18 billion liters at the turn of the century to 110 billion liters in 2019 (1,2). Sugar cane and corn have been used as the major feedstocks for ethanol production. Lignocellulosic biomass has recently been considered as another potential feedstock. This paper reviews recent developments and current status of commercial production of ethanol across the world. The review includes the ethanol production processes used for each type of feedstock, both currently practiced at commercial scale and newly developed technologies, and production trends in various regions and countries in the world.
Keywords
fuel ethanol; renewable energy; biobased feedstocks; lignocellulosic biomass; fermentation process; processing options; commercialization; production status; climate change; environmental security
Subject
Engineering, Energy and Fuel Technology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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