NEWS

Union Government is working on a plan to use stubble as a biofuel and manure as part of an effort to deal with stubble burning

What are Biofuels:

• Hydrocarbon fuel
• Produced from an organic matter (living or once living material) in a short period of time (days, weeks, or even months)
• May be
  • Solid: Wood, dried plant material, and manure
  • Liquid: Bioethanol and Biodiesel
  • Gaseous: Biogas

Classification

• 1st generation biofuels
  • Called conventional biofuels
  • Made from things like sugar, starch, or vegetable oil
  • Made from a feedstock that can also be consumed as a human food
• 2nd generation biofuels
  • Produced from sustainable feedstock
  • No second generation biofuel is also a food crop, though certain food products can become second generation fuels
  • Often called “advanced biofuels.”
• 3rd generation biofuels
  • Derived from algae
  • Given their own separate class because of their unique production mechanism and their potential to mitigate most of the drawbacks of 1st and 2nd generation biofuels.
• 4th generation biofuels
  • In the production of these fuels, crops that are genetically engineered to take in high amounts of carbon are grown and harvested as biomass.
  • The crops are then converted into fuel using second generation techniques.