Materials Science for Energy Technologies (Aug 2019)

Bio-energy production by contribution of effective and suitable microbial system

  • Rajesh K. Srivastava

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 2
pp. 308 – 318

Abstract

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Economically feasible and eco-friendly renewable energy fuels are obtained from the utilization of biomass of agricultural crops or microalgae or biological wastes which are good source of bioenergies. Now days, biofuels or biogases are main bio-energy source, provided alternative option to conventionally utilized (fossil fuel) energy which can fulfill increasing energy demand (in present and future) for worldwide people with minimization of green house gases in our environment. Bio-energy is normally produced from biological processes (fermentation or anaerobic digestion) via utilization of effective and suitable microbial system and sustainable raw substrates (agricultural crops biomass residue or biological wastes). Microbial fuel cells can be utilized for the complex organic wastes and renewable biomasses via exploitation of microbial catabolic biochemical reaction to produce the electric energy. Utilization of microbial fuel cells is found to be useful for sustainable bioenergy synthesis via completing the wastewater treatment processes with electric energy synthesis. Effective and suitable microorganism species system is now created by utilization of genetic materials modification or metabolic pathways engineering methods. Further, biofuel production improvement can be achieved successfully by utilization of optimal process design and development of synthetic microbial cells with planned of malfunctional of internally residing genes and/or other sources gene expression (microalgae species) or systems biotechnology (for global cellular information) and synthetic and systems biology (bacterial or yeast species). Biodiesel, bioethanol, biobutanol, biohydrogen and biogas production will be discussed with recent research and update development for utilization of different sustainable resources. Keywords: Bioenergy, Biogases, Biofuels, Microbial, Sustainable