TY - BOOK ID - 46217736 TI - Biofuels : Challenges and opportunities AU - Mansour Al Qubeissi AU - Al Qubeissi, Mansour PY - 2019 SN - 1789855365 1789855357 1839620714 PB - IntechOpen DB - UniCat KW - Biomass energy. KW - Bio-energy (Biomass energy) KW - Bioenergy (Biomass energy) KW - Biofuels KW - Biological fuels KW - Energy, Biomass KW - Microbial energy conversion KW - Energy conversion KW - Fuel KW - Microbial fuel cells KW - Refuse as fuel KW - Waste products as fuel KW - Life Sciences KW - Sustainable Energy KW - Bioenergy KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Biomass as fuel KW - Renewable fuels KW - Renewable energy sources UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46217736 AB - Amongst concerns about climate change, energy security decline and depletion of fossil fuels, this book explores the high importance of and interests in alternative energy resources. Many studies have shown that biomass fuels are sustainable, environmentally friendly and can be the most appropriate replacement to the depleting crude oil. Additionally, they can expand green landscapes, create new job opportunities, be directly utilised in standard power systems and improve combustion performance. Biomass fuels can be limited due to production cost and competition with food. Therefore, plant and food wastes play an important role in reducing these costs and recycling dump bio-materials. Production of biofuels from non-food biomass has emerged as a sustainable option to tackle the problems associated with growing demands for energy. ER -