title: Potential of rice straw for bio-refining: An overview.
abstract: The biorefinery approach for the production of fuels and chemicals is gaining more and more attraction in recent years. The major advantages of biorefineries are the generation of multiple products with complete utilization of biomass with zero waste generation. Moreover the process will be economically viable when it targets low volume high value products in addition to high volume low value products like bioethanol. The present review discuss about the potential of rice straw based biorefinery. Since rice is a major staple food for many Asian countries, the utilization of the rice straw residue for fuel and chemicals would be very economical. The review focuses the availability and the potential of this residue for the production of fuel and other high value chemicals.
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India.
authors.forename: Amith
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India.
authors.forename: Anil Kuruvilla
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Mathew
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India.
authors.forename: Raveendran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sindhu
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India.
authors.forename: Ashok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019, India. Electronic address: binodkannur@niist.res.in.
authors.forename: Parameswaran
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Binod
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D018533:Biomass; D012275:Oryza / Q000737:chemistry*; D014866:Waste Products
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D014866:Waste Products
keywords: Biomass; Biorefinery; Rice straw; Sustainability