Rice straw and husk: renewable sources of biofuel production

To achieve the requirement of world population in petroleum sector, bio-ethanol production and utilization has been going to play a major role in near future. By utilizing the lignocellulosic by-product of rice, wheat, maize like cereals, production of huge quantity of bio-ethanol could be possible through different methods like, pre-treatment, saccharification and fermentation. Well utilization of these waste by-products through different mechanisms to produce the end product as bio-ethanol is now being the hot topic worldwide. Reduction of greenhouse gas emission, protection of human from hazardous gases and basically reduction of global warming can be achieved through this production. These energy resources are very much efficient and enhancing the achievements of researches day-by-day. Modern technologies like, genetic engineering, biotechnology, etc. are now being extensively utilized for standardizing the larger production of biofuels. Utilization of microorganisms like yeast and synthetically produced hydrolysing enzymes are the potent technology for biological fermentation process which would be less harmful to environment. Potentiality of the by-products especially from rice straw showing a larger capacity than other cereals crops, for the production of the bioethanol which has been studied well now a days by researchers and the industrial applications are also followed for the replacement of conventional petroleum products