Imperial College London
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Dr. Patrik R. Jones

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences

Professor of Metabolic Engineering
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5213p.jones

 
 
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Location

 

503Sir Alexander Fleming BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Perin:2019:10.1016/j.copbio.2019.04.004,
author = {Perin, G and Jones, PR},
doi = {10.1016/j.copbio.2019.04.004},
journal = {Current Opinion in Biotechnology},
pages = {175--182},
title = {Economic feasibility and long-term sustainability criteria on the path to enable a transition from fossil fuels to biofuels.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2019.04.004},
volume = {57},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Currently the production of liquid biofuels relies on plant biomass, which in turn depends on the photosynthetic conversion of light and CO2 into chemical energy. As a consequence, the process is renewable on a far shorter time-scale than its fossil counterpart, thus rendering a potential to reduce the environmental impact of the transportation sector. However, the global economy is not intensively pursuing this route, as current generation biofuel production does not meet two key criteria: (1) economic feasibility and (2) long-term sustainability. Herein, we argue that microalgal systems are valuable alternatives to consider, although it is currently technologically immature and therefore not possible to reach criterion 1, nor evaluate criterion 2. In this review we discuss the major limiting factors for this technology and highlight how further research efforts could be deployed to concretize an industrial reality.
AU  - Perin,G
AU  - Jones,PR
DO  - 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.04.004
EP  - 182
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 0958-1669
SP  - 175
TI  - Economic feasibility and long-term sustainability criteria on the path to enable a transition from fossil fuels to biofuels.
T2  - Current Opinion in Biotechnology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2019.04.004
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31103911
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/70340
VL  - 57
ER  -
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