A Review of Advances and Quality Assessment of Biofuels

Abstract

The search for the exploitation of renewable and environmental benign energy resources increase globally due to increasing prices and uncertainties in the availability of conventional energy resources such as mineral fuels. Biofuels are alternative renewable fuels that have received considerable attention in the recent past: namely bioethanol, which is made from crop grains or sugarcane and biodiesel, which is made from vegetable oils and animal fats, and both are used as a sources of power for cars, trucks, and aircrafts. Presently the fuels are produced and marketed in Brazil and many developed countries, and serves as a potent supplement/substitute for fossil fuel. This paper examines the precedence of biofuel as a fuel and highlights the advances made in the production, use and quality assessment at the global level.