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Biofuels Outlook and Declining Ecosystem Reserves.

Dhanashree Dilip Raut1

College of Engineering, Shivaji Nagar, Pune, Maharashtra1

draut26@gmail.com.

Abstract:

Today we have a growing understanding of the

problems related to petroleum products. Climate

change has caused in large part by Co2 emissions

and the biggest man-made source of which is

transportation. An epidemic which is closely

linked with particulate matter has caused serious

problems and severely affected the environment

associated with fossil fuels.

Technology and science has created ways to make

bio-based products such as gasoline, diesel fuel

etc, less expensive and adaptable. The prospect of

a society with much greater use of these products

is often referred to as either the “bio-based

future”. Significant resources are being invested

in this future.

Biofuels get the most attention, and have the

greatest investment; for good reason, the prospect

of replacing the black gold that our economy runs

on is exciting and potentially lucrative. This

paper looks into the implications of biofuel

production in India as well as in other countries

and also studies ecosystem worst condition that

leads to climate change.

Keywords:

Bio-fuels, implications, fossil fules, climate

change

Introduction:

Soon the world has to face an energy

crisis due to depletion of limited fossil fuel

resources. Furthermore, an ever-increasing

level of greenhouse gas pollution from the

combustion of fossil fuels play a major role

in altering our climatic conditions by

elevating the earth temperature global

warming. Also unexpected variations in fuel

price and related health issues has led to a

realization that modern society must turn to

eco-friendly and renewable forms of

energy source. One of the oldest technology

which is relooked in different angle and

gained attraction of both producers and

consumers across the world is “Bioethanol”.

Environmental impact is worst after increase

in urbanization. Sensitivity to protect,

preserve and recycle fuels from different

source has increased since there is depletion

in fuel production. Thus India leading

towards producing biofuels that is alternative

fuels which is helpful and can work

effectively.

India’s energy security would remain

vulnerable until alternative fuels to

substitute/supplement petro-based fuels are

developed based on indigenously produced

renewable feedstock. In biofuels, the country

has a ray of hope in providing energy

security. Biofuels are environment friendly

fuels and their utilization would address

global concerns about containment of carbon

emissions. The transportation sector has been

identified as a major polluting sector. Use of

biofuels have, therefore, become compelling

in view of the tightening automotive vehicle

emission standards to curb air pollution.

Internationally, researchers have identified a

new way to produce aviation fuel from

sugarcane biomass that could deliver

substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The source crops could be grown on marginal

land, avoiding displacing food production,

the team observed. They added the

development of renewable liquid fuels was

critical to reduce global reliance on

petroleum and help mitigate climate change.

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The findings appear in the Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences.

Contents:

Earth scientists believe the world has about

40years worth of oil still buried in its rocks—

but they've been saying the same thing now

for at least 40 years! Whatever the reality

about “Peak Oil”, one thing is certain with

ever-growing numbers of vehicles on our

streets,oil is going to become more expensive

and harder to obtain over the next few

decades. That's why many people think the

future lies with alternative fuels made from

crops and waste products. Known as biofuels,

these potentially offer many advantages over

petroleum. They could help us tackle global

warming and, by reducing our dependence on

oil from the Middle East, they could help

make the world a safer place. But biofuels

have major drawbacks too. Critics think their

environmental benefits are overstated and

argue that, by taking land that would

otherwise be used for growing food; they

could severely worsen poverty and hunger in

developing countries. This made biofuels

come in to picture.

Bio- energy cover approximately 10% of

total world energy demand. More advance

and efficient technologies now allow the

extraction of bio-fuels from materials such as

wood, crops and waste material.

A recent study of Bangalore has found that

vegetation in the city has decreased by 66%

and water bodies by 74% in the last 40 years.

The study was done through remote sensing

techniques and its analysis says the spatial

extent of tree vegetation in Bangalore is

100.02 sq km (14.08 per cent).

Vegetation is minimum in wards such as

Chickpet, Shivajinagar, Kempapura Agrahara

and Padararayanapura with less than hundred

trees, while wards such as Varthur, Bellandur

and Agaram have higher vegetation cover of

more than 300 hectares. Hoody,

Aramane Nagara and Vasanthapura have

even higher vegetation cover. The total

number of trees in Bangalore is about 14, 78,

412 and the number is decreasing faster than

ever before. The study adds that the

computation of trees per person shows that

Shivajinagar, Dayananada Nagar, Chickpet,

Padarayanapura and Kempapura Agrahara

wards have less than one tree for every 500

people.

Intra-city analyses show that major cities

such as Gandhinagar have 416 trees for every

100 people followed by Bangalore with 17

trees, Brihan Mumbai with 15 trees and

Ahmedabad with 11 trees. Urban vegetation

plays a vital role as it moderates the micro

climate of the city and sequesters carbon that

is retained and used later by plants in life

processes as well as aids in the percolation of

water.

WHO recommends a minimum green space

of 9.5 sq.m per person. Estimates indicate

that about six tons of carbon is sequestered

by 1 hectare of forests annually and this

accounts for 6 kg / tree / year.

The study says reduced vegetation cover

with urbanization has serious implications

for the city’s environmental and ecological

health. This highlights that the city has

crossed the threshold of urbanization,

which is evident from a range of

psychological, social and health impacts on

residents including dramatic increase in

obesity, asthma, traffic problems, road

accidents, etc. Urban planners must

maintain at least 33% green cover which

means at least 1.15 trees per person in the

city.” The level of environmental literacy

is low in the city. We must hold workshops

for capacity building and after citizens are

sensitive to our ecological needs, they will

surely help preserve our ecosystems.

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Past and present scenario of Biofuel

Projected Consumption of Gasoline for

Transportation.

India has been working hard towards creating

a sustainable environment and also protecting

the resources available. Above graph shows

that India would consume the lowest in terms

of Gasoline, but, in terms of production,

India lacks behind.

Bio-fuel production for Transportation.

Conclusions:

The Government is exploring options of

moving the Apex court in the country to seek

a redresses from the recent Green tribunal

order to ease out 10 year old diesel fuelled

vehicles from the capital city even as the

transport ministry takes initiatives to bring in

biofuels in the public transport system.

“Bio-fuels can be socio-economic change

agents as it would address crucial issues of

farmer suicides, agriculture surpluses in the

sugar wheat and rice industries and fuel

economy.

Higher use of biofuels will directly help

reduce petrol and diesel imports which are at

about Rs6 lakh-crores.

A successful pilot project had been set up on

ethanol green buses in Nagpur, likewise more

efforts can be taken up for upbringing new

comers in this field as it is very much

challenging and researchers should study