Applied Microbiology

Microbial Biofuels

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Fossil fuels viz., coal and oil these fuels are still the primary source of energy for the world’s developed nations, and yet it is considered as these traditional sources of energy cannot continue to power humanity’s growth into the future. Demand for oil production is high these days, and will only increase as developing nations continue to grow. Many researchers predict that the rate of world oil production has already peaked, and that it is only decreasing from now onwards as fewer oil reserves are found. This decreasing supply and rising need will drive up the price of oil and other fossil fuels, and will make them economically un-sustainable. Use of fossil fuels concern other problems as well, most importantly that their consumption is unsustainable. To burn fossil fuels produces huge quantities of the greenhouse gas CO₂ (carbon dioxide), which has a bad impact on the Earth’s environment by contributing to global warming. For all of these reasons, there is great importance to pursue the development of renewable energy sources, specifically microbial biofuels.

Microbial metabolism is vastly changing, and can utilize and produce a wide variety of useful chemical molecules. Microbial systems are also well understood and easy to manipulate genetically, and new scientific advances will only make these systems easier to work and understand with in the future. Although there is no biofuel option currently available which solves all of the environmental issues associated with fossil fuels this makes microbial biofuels as useful and important target for research.

Related Conferences :

4th International Conference and Exhibition on Probiotics & Functional Foods, Valencia, Spain, November 03-05, 2015, International Conference on Water Microbiology and Novel Techniques, Chicago, USA, July 18-20, 2016, 4thInternational Conference on Oceanography and Marine Biology, Brisbane, Australia, July 18-20, 2016, 2nd International Congress and Expo on Biofuels and Bioenergy, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 01-03, 2016,  International Conference on Microbial Physiology and Genomics Rome, Italy, October 20-22, 2016 Rome, Italy,  XVII International Congress on MPMI, Portland, OR, USA, July 17-21,2016 , Clinical Microbiology and Microbial Genomics Philadelphia, USA,  PA, October 05-07, 2015,  Hot topics in food microbiology, October 08 - 09, 2015,  Chipping Campden, UK, EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Microbiology, Heidelberg , Germany, October 11-14, 2015,  Microbe 2016, Sheffield, UK, September 23-25, 2016.