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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 794, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148636
Keywords
Bioenergy; Blue-green algae; Fermentation; Microalgae; Third-generation biofuels
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- DGAPA (Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico) under PAPIIT [IA203320, IN110118, IA102821, IG100720]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [207450/P120]
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Cyanobacterial biomass, rich in carbohydrates, shows potential for synthesizing bioethanol, biohydrogen, and biobutanol as sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based products. Challenges and advancements in utilizing cyanobacteria for biofuel production were discussed, including technical strategies, fermentation processes, and life cycle assessment for large-scale applications.
Cyanobacterial biomass has constituted a crucial third and fourth-generation biofuel material, with great potential to synthesize a wide range of metabolites, mainly carbohydrates. Lately, carbohydrate-based biofuels from cyanobacteria, such as bioethanol, biohydrogen, and biobutanol, have attracted attention as a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based products. Cyanobacteria can perform a simple process of saccharification, and extracted carbohydrates can be converted into biofuels with two alternatives; the first one consists of a fermentative process based on bacteria or yeasts, while the second alternative consists of an internal metabolic process of their own in intracellular carbohydrate content, either by the natural or genetic engineered process. This study reviewed carbohydrate-enriched cyanobacterial biomass as feedstock for biofuels. Detailed insights on technical strategies and limitations of cultivation, polysaccharide accumulation strategies for further fermentation process were provided. Advances and challenges in bioethanol, biohydrogen, and biobutanol production by cyanobacteria synthesis and an independent fermentative process are presented. Critical outlook on life cycle assessment and techno-economical aspects for large-scale application of these technologies were discussed. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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