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Synthetic Biofuels and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

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Increasing awareness among the masses, environment, and the depleting natural oil reservoirs, a replacement for the fossil fuels is urgently required. Presently, biofuels are having increased scientific and societal attention, due to factors such as the need for high energy security, foreign exchange savings, oil price fluctuation, and concern over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions arising from fossil fuels. Conventional fuel generated severe environmental impacts across the globe. Thus, increasing drastic greenhouse gas emission levels and decreasing crude oil depletion need to arise to study toward an alternative for fuel. Biodiesel and bioethanol are primary biofuels, yet they have limitations toward the feedstock and production process. Synthetic biofuel can be produced from any type of biomass. So they have the diversity of feedstocks and pathways. It may be sustainable, renewable alternative fuel over fossil fuels. It may be boon in GHG mitigation, especially world level carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction problem.

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  1. CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Jyoti Porwal

  2. DIT University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Suheel K. Porwal

  3. Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Haryana, India

    Raman Singh & Kuldeep Singh

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  1. Department of Botany and P.G. School of Biotechnology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Ashwani Kumar

  2. Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, OK, USA

    Yuan-Yeu Yau

  3. Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Syoubara, Hiroshima, Japan

    Shinjiro Ogita

  4. Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Plant Physiology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Renate Scheibe

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Porwal, J., Porwal, S.K., Singh, R., Singh, K. (2020). Synthetic Biofuels and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation. In: Kumar, A., Yau, YY., Ogita, S., Scheibe, R. (eds) Climate Change, Photosynthesis and Advanced Biofuels. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5228-1_10

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