PRODUCTION OF BIOFUEL FROM MICROORGANISMS

The depletion of fossil-based fuels which lead to a need to find an alternative for fuel and the environmental impact produced by the conventional sources of energy over the planet has led to a new research work to seek the sustainable sources of clean and green energy. Biofuel is committed to becoming a worldwide leader in the development and deployment of renewable energy resources for fuels. Biofuel is an alternative fuel, made from renewable biological sources. Biofuel can also be produced from microbial sources like algae, bacteria, yeast, and fungi. Microbes exhibit the capacity to accumulate intracellular lipids within that in excess of 70 percent of their biomass during metabolic stress periods. The traditional feedstocks for Biofuel production in biomass are vegetable oils and animal fats resulting in competition with the food industry. Fungal lipids as a source for Biofuel was less studied. Hence the fungal lipids source as Biofuel was taken for this study