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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Konur, Ozcan

Titel

Production Processes for Bioethanol Fuels: Scientometric Study

Ist Teil von

• Bioethanol Fuel Production Processes. II, 2024, p.3-29

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

CRC Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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• The crude oil-based gasoline fuels have been widely used in the transportation sector since the 1920s. However, there have been great public concerns over the adverse environmental and human impact of these fuels. Hence, biomass-based bioethanol fuels have increasingly been used in blending gasoline fuels, in the fuel cells, and in the biochemical production in a biorefinery context. Bioethanol fuels also play a critical role in maintaining the energy security in the supply shocks related to oil price shocks, COVID-19 pandemics, or wars in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, it is necessary to pretreat the biomass to enhance the yield of the bioethanol prior to the bioethanol production through the hydrolysis of the biomass and fermentation of the resulting hydrolysates. The research in the field of the production processes for bioethanol fuels has intensified in this context in the key research fronts of the pretreatment and hydrolysis of the feedstocks, fermentation of the hydrolysates, production of bioethanol fuels in general, and to a lesser extent evaluation, utilization, and distillation of bioethanol fuels. The research in this field has also intensified for the feedstocks of lignocellulosic biomass at large, cellulose, wood biomass, starch feedstock residues, and to a lesser extent lignin, grass biomass, industrial waste, sugar feedstocks, starch feedstocks, sugar feedstock residues, algal biomass, biosyngas, urban waste, food waste, and forestry waste. Thus, it complements the research on the feedstocks for the bioethanol fuels and evaluation and utilization of bioethanol fuels at large. However, it is essential to develop efficient incentive structures for the primary stakeholders to enhance the research in this field. The scientometric analysis has been used in this context to inform the primary stakeholders about the current state of the research in a selected research field. As there have been no published scientometric studies in this field, this book chapter presents a scientometric study of the research in the production processes for bioethanol fuels. It examines the scientometric characteristics of both the sample and population data presenting scientometric characteristics of these both datasets in the order of documents, authors, publication years, institutions, funding bodies, source titles, countries, Scopus subject categories, Scopus keywords, and research fronts. The most prolific Scopus subject categories in the production processes for bioethanol fuels are the Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 51% of the sample papers each, followed by Immunology and Microbiology, Environmental Science, and Energy with 39%, 36%, and 26% of the sample papers, respectively. As there has been no current scientometric study in this field, this book chapter presents a scientometric study of the research in the production processes for bioethanol fuels. Lastly, the key scientometric findings for both datasets were discussed to highlight the research landscape for production processes for bioethanol fuels. The most prolific Scopus subject categories in the production processes for bioethanol fuels are Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and to a lesser extent Immunology and Microbiology, Environmental Science, and Energy. The crude oil-based gasoline fuels have been widely used in the transportation sector since the 1920s.